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Posted: 12th May 2005
maybe it's a financial restraint. are they being made by small independant companies or individuals?

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Posted: 12th May 2005
But surely after initial costs it would infact be beneficial

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Posted: 12th May 2005
yer, but if they've not got tose funds or the equipment....


i aws in a fortunate positin as a courier in manchester and made some useful contacts int he a/v industry...i used o take in my vids and get them put on dvd!

so that's an option find someone near where you live that could do that...or hook your video up to your pc!

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Posted: 12th May 2005
I've yet to buy a DVD player, but you're right- VHS is on it's way out.

Most of the video movie stores round here have all the VHS shunted into a corner to make way for the DVDs, and it's getting difficult to find newish movies on video.

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Posted: 12th May 2005
I can't watch either of my col videos because i no longer have vhs.

I have acces to several dvd players tho, including one from richer sounds that cost £30 and is excellent.

Plus dvd's are cheaper to produce and easier to store and send, i wouldn't bring anything out on vhs.

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Posted: 12th May 2005
So why are they soooo much more expensive to buy?! (that one goes out to the people who are making lots of profit off them!)

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Posted: 13th May 2005
cd's are more expensive to buy than cassettes (huh, remember them!?) and yeah, dvds are probably cheaper to produce too, but who's going to buy a video costing more than the dvd? I have stopped buying VHS now, which is annoying since there are a few things out there i'd like to buy but aren't on dvd. Also dvd is playable in different countries whereas videos aren't.

If i were to do a video it would be released on dvd, but more likely i would put it on internet. For sale in shops, a region dvd would defo be the way fwd - internationally able to sell then...

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Posted: 17th May 2005
"So why are they soooo much more expensive to buy"

Because they are produced by massive corporations who's sole aim is get more money. dvd's like you buy in the shops for £15 probably only cost £0.50 to produce, cd's about £0.15 at a guess for mass produced stuff.

They are ripping you off, then complaining about you downloading music and videos lol

In america they just passed a very underhanded law which enables you to be put in prison for 3 years for distributing illegal dvd copies and 10 years for filming and releasing a new film before it's release date or something. definitely 10 years tho, this is a blaitant lobby from the US media industry and all the more reason IMO to get your dvd's free from the East lol.

Of course if you find a dvd that you really like you should buy it to encourage those people to make more good moves (or tunes) but 90% (IMO) of hollywood movies are utter shite and not worth the blank dvd they are recorded on.

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Posted: 17th May 2005
I have a personal grudge against the DVD international coding (codes 1 - 6). My parents sent DVDs for christmas, and no one here can watch them!!!

tried burning them with a computer into Europe's code, and hey, still don't work!

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Posted: 17th May 2005
if you take it back to the shop where you bought the dvd player they will normally un-regionalise it for free. All they have to do is point a controller at it and type in a code.



Or watch on a computer, most of which shouldn't have regions,



Or rip it into an AVI and watch on computer (pm me over on my site for more info on freeware tools)



Or buy a dvd player from Richer Sounds for £30, they have a policy on un-regionalising all machines they sell cos they don't believe in it.



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Posted: 17th May 2005
1) Never heard of that, might look into it...

2) the computer in my house here doesn't read DVDs (burning was done by the boyfriend, 250km south)

3) see 2)

4) Living in Germany...

But thanks for the thoughts! I'll ask around about the first suggestion, might be possible.

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Posted: 17th May 2005
So why are they soooo much more expensive to buy"

"probably only cost £0.50 to produce, cd's about £0.15 at a guess for mass produced stuff."

AS an AV professional who has produced several Professional and not so professional DVD's it all a matter of volume. if your talking about a run of 100,000 or more then the above costs are not too unreasonable. Most people producing Twirling stuff might only be selling a few thousand at best.

THIS IS JUST THE PRESS COST. not including the production costs, editing, promotion, printing, shipping, distrubition etc. To completely edit a 2hrs stage show (4 cameras) I recently charged a client $6000 and that was INCREDABLY cheep. The menus and authoring to a master DTL was that again and then some including the graphic design. The shoot was about $10,000.....I don't know what the audio cost as it was done by another company. Thats a lot of money just for a stage show which is a simple edit.

When comparing VHS with DVD production costs, in the above project I also produced a VHS Master. With no menus and associated design costs, DLT masters, Disk art ETC the Master was only about $1000 after editing compared to $7000+ depending on the complexity of the menus etc.

"They are ripping you off, then complaining about you downloading music and videos lol"

IT IS THEFT simple. everyone does it but it does'nt make it any better or right. complain and bitch about the price but it isn't somthing that you Can't live without. The law you mentioned is
specifically designed to stop organised pirates who are profiting on other peoples work. Personally I have no problem with casual copying, I might copy a movie or two but to make a living of other peoples risk and work is really shitty. I will not buy "profesionally" piriated software, DVD etc for this reason no matter how tempting it is to save a few bucks.


"Of course if you find a dvd that you really like you should buy it to encourage those people to make more good moves (or tunes) but 90% (IMO) of hollywood movies are utter shite and not worth the blank dvd they are recorded on."

Unfortunatly Agreed....

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