5% Incompatible after CD DVD Replication

Hello,
It's been around 4 months since a short run of 1000 discs was completed for
a client.
The disc image was provided to a replicator on 2 CD / DVD-R's for redundancy.
Since then, the client has reported 5% incompatibility complaints from the
few hundred that have sold so far. Incompatible discs that have been
returned play with no problem on the client's DVD player.
The replicator has not provided any insight into this, so my 3 part question
is this:
Is 5% incompatibility for a replicated project that passed QA reasonable?
If not, could the issue be the result of a CD-R / DVD-R master rather than a DLT
tape?
Is it reasonable for the replicator (chosen by the client) to be
unresponsive to questions about this problem?
Any info would be appreciated.
thx,

Microsoft announces Windows 8 will not come with DVD support

Microsoft announces Windows 8 will not come with DVD support

By Terence Keegan

Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will not feature built-in support for DVD playback, the company has revealed, in a decision that signals the increasing dominance of streaming and downloadable media formats in the home entertainment marketplace.

Windows 8 users who wish to play DVDs (or Blu-ray discs) on their PCs will have to purchase separate software from Microsoft or a third party. But the company contends that relatively few users will require such features.

The market shift from discs to digital formats has rendered the licensing costs of DVD decoding technology unjustifiable, Microsoft said in a corporate blog post Thursday. “Globally, DVD sales have declined significantly year over year and Blu-ray on PCs is losing momentum as well,” the company stated. Yet royalties for including optical media decoding technology in the Windows operating system have remained “significant.”

“Our partners have shared clear concerns over the costs associated with codec licensing for traditional media playback,” Microsoft said, “especially as Windows 8 enables an unprecedented variety of form factors.”....

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WWW.INSIGHTVISION.BIZ: Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria

WWW.INSIGHTVISION.BIZ: Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria

Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria

Hey all

I saw a story on the TV last year how some Biology Student at uni
decided to use Blank CD's as petrie dishes for growing bacteria.
Apparently he also worked as a DJ in the evenings in a local nightclub.

Anyway, one day he mistakenly took one one of the CD's that had E.Coli
growing on it and shoved it in the player at the nightclub.

Lo and behold, he fell of his chair, (and the dancers got up to dance)
as to his surprise the ecoli, had altered the Dye of the CDR,

To get to the point the music had re-mixed itself in new and unusual
ways.
Proved to be quite a hit. Apparently he tried it with VCD's as well and
it altered the vision on the disk..

Funky.

Just wondering if some of these chemicals we use for cleaning.. (whats
wrong with rubbing it vigorously against your jeans anyway?) can also
affect the recorded dye??

Regards

Best
regards,




Stanislav

Insight Vision.Biz Ltd 'We Keep Our Promises'

CD DVD

Replication - http://www.insightvision.biz/cd-dvd-replication

Physical Media is Dead? Yep!

I'm not a true DVD professional like most on this list. I'm a small time
guy
 transferring film and memories to DVD.
 My humble opinion is that in 5 years or less, the internet will dominate
the
 market and the need for physical media will be gone.
 No more discs or players.
 Record stores today have rare and impossible to find albums which are sure
 to be collector items (nostalgia, artwork i.e. Zep, Dead). A But DVD and BD
 are all too new. A To be blunt, coasters.
 Movies, artwork and music. A All will be digital.
 The question is how will you store it? A Cloud Storage?
 Then how do you take advantage of the new "hyperspace realm"? A We can
shoot,
 and edit, but then what?
 The mass market will have to be re-evaluated as far as pricing goes. A No
 more physical duplication and mass production as we know it.
 Would love to hear rebuttals on this.
 But try not to be too wordy.

Best regards,

Stanislav

Stanislav Kosev

Insight Vision.Biz Ltd 'We Keep Our Promises'

CD DVD Replication - http://www.insightvision.biz

DVD Authoring and/or DVD Replication problem ???

OK, we have a puzzle for everyone, and we're hoping the collective wisdom

here  can provide some insight.

 We do lots of DVD authoring and DVD replication jobs, but a recent one had an

 unacceptable number of complaints from the end-users, and we can't figure

 out

 why. The job is a fairly straight forward authored DVD. We use DVD Studio

 Pro

 and Compressor. Each DVD has a 10 second first play, a single two button

 menu,

 and a total of about 3 hours of video, encoded at a CBR of 2.5Mbps. There

 are

 12 different DVDs in this job, all with similar specs. The copies are

 duplicated since it is low volume. We've been doing this job for several

 years

 in pretty much the identical fashion, and this is the first year that

 there

 have been complaints. The big problem for us is that we can't recreate the

 problem here. The users complain that the DVD will play for a while then

 "freeze" or become pixelated and then stop, and sometimes hang their

 computer.

 Most of the problems were from PC's (both new and old) with Windows Media

 Player, but it seems there were also complaints from

  stand alone DVD players.

 So it seems we have borderline playable DVDs, that pass our QC tests, but

 have

 an unacceptable failure rate in the field. Now we're trying to determine

 the

 mostly likely culprit: either something in the authoring/encoding process,

 or

 something in the duplication process. The perplexing thing is that we do

 dozens of authoring and duplication jobs in the same fashion, but this job

 is

 the only one that is giving us grief.

 We can suspect the master is at fault, since that is one thing that is

 obviously unique to this job. But how likely is that? We've heard that

 there

 may be things in DVDSP that can create titles that have problems playing

 in

 certain situations. Can anyone confirm or deny that, or shed any more

 light on

 it? Is 2.5Mb from Compressor ever a problem? Is there any definitive way

 to

 test?  And if it is in the authoring, would it still cause problems if the

 job

 was replicated?

 If it's not in the master, then it would imply that the duplicates had

 problems. We know that DVD-R are not as playable as replicated discs, but

 we

 never see this number of problems. We rechecked the problem copies that

 were

 returned and found something disturbing. Our standard method of checking

 copies is to use "copy and compare" on our duplicators (Verity and R-

 Quest),

 and then also do a byte count check on a test machine. All these discs

 pass

 those tests. However, we sent them to a partner to check on their Eclipse

 system, and some of the discs failed that compare test. We also have a

 standalone DVD tower with an A-card controller that also failed some, but

 not

 all of the comparisons. What the heck is going on? If the Eclipse test

 implies

 that there may be a bit or two that doesn't match in a particular block,

 could

 that cause the failures in the field, or is it impossible to tell. And if

 we

 can't trust the compare function of the Replication what

  should we do? Is there some way to calibrate or verify the compare

 function?

 So, what's your vote - authoring, replication, media (we use Ritek)? And

 what

 about the "compare" problem on the duplicatiors? Any help would be greatly

 appreciated.

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