Re: Disturbing news...

["Gareth Livergood" <garethlivergood@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >
> >300,000 CD-Rs, in bulk, will cost about $30,000 US.  Not too bad.  The
> >dedicated automated CD-R backup system, a couple of million USD.
>
>
> Well the producer tower that I drive at work has four 24x burners, that
can
> each produce unique disks, each labeled.
> It could easily handle the volumes required. (We use it to produce phone
> bills on CD.)
> It could be upgraded to run DVD drives as well. Total cost of the unit was
> about US$50k.
>
> (It's an upgraded Rimage Autostar,
> http://editpoint.com/dvd/rimage/rimage.html
> about halfway down the page.)
>
> Scott

I saw some in Taiwan, 12-16 CD burners in one tower for about US$1000-2000.
I don't think you could burn seperate disks. These are mostly used by the
pirate market.
Gareth
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