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Topic: Burning DTS disks
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Randy Stankey
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-05-2003 03:47 PM
Don't forget, you have to keep CD-RWs scrupulously clean. When you try to erase/reburn them, the TINIEST little scratches or specks of dirt can cause a bad burn and the disk won't read... even IF the drive is supposed to read CD-RWs. You will have to burn each set of disks and take them straight to the players, keeping them in their cases the whole time. No fingerprints! No setting them down on top of the rack unless they are inside their case!
If your booth is anything like the ones I worked in, prints move around all the time and disks get switched on an almost daily basis. CD-RWs that get suffled around that much are bound to get scratched and dirty in a short period of time. If people who work in your area are anything like the ones I used to work with, they won't respect the fact that those disks have to be kept "Hospital Clean". They will trash them in no time flat, necessitating their replacement in a short time.
If you get plain old CD-Rs, you burn the disk, use it and toss it when you're done. If the disk gets dirty, scratched or just plain stops working you simply toss it out and burn another.
I like to burn music CDs to play in my car on long trips. When the trip's over I TOSS the disks! CD-Rs literally cost 25 cents apiece. You can afford to toss them. CD-RWs are a lot more expensive.
Last time I bought disks I got a whole "cake box" of 100 disks for less than $25.00. If you use an average of 10 disks a week, your weekly cost will be $2.50 and you will only have to replenish your stock every 10 weeks or so. (If you don't waste disks.)
Buy CD-RWs and pay at least $10 for a set of them, which you will have to replace every few weeks as they stop working, one by one, and you will end up spending a lot more money in the end.
How about doing a test run before deciding on which route to take?
Buy 2 sets of CD-RWs and 2 sets of CD-Rs. Burn them and use them as normal.
1) See if the CD-RWs actually work. If not, you didn't spend a whole lot of money just to find that out.
2) See if the CD-RWs get beat up and require replacement.
3) See how many copies of the disks you ACTUALLY end up burning every week. (Some weeks you might not burn ANY. Other weeks you might burn enough for ALL your players
4) Do a cost analysis based on what you found out from your experiments: Average of "D" disks per week at "C" dollars per disk = "W" average cost per week. Run this analysis for a month or so, every week. (Or just program it into a spreadsheet and make a prediction.) After your experimental period you ought to be able tell your home office exactly how much things will cost them in the long run.
If you can supply your bosses the "math" that shows that something will be cheaper in the long run they'd be fools not to listen. Furthermore, if they DON'T listen to your advice they won't have a leg to stand on when they try to complain about too much money being spent.
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