[rec.video] Making a video disk: Where and how much?

mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (02/23/89)

Does anyone know where you can have a videotape (something like an
M-2 studio tape) make into a videodisc for use in interactive video
presentations (with the Pioneer, Hitachi, etc. players)?  Also, what
is the cost involved in such a process?

Please send any responses to me at:

..!{pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas

Thanks,
Michael Niehaus

mae@vygr.Sun.COM (Mike Ekberg, Sun {Graphics Product Division}) (02/23/89)

The following is 'borrowed' from the article "Creating your Own Videodisc" in
Signal(see previous message for address).

"... For about $2000, comapanies such as 3M will press a disc master a 
disc master from which you can order additional copies for around $10/disc.If
you only need one or two copies for in-house use, you can also order
plastic or glass "check discs" from such companies as Crawford Communications,
pressed overnight for about $300-500 per disc."

Crawford Communications
506 Plasters Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30324
404/876-8722

Other stuff from same article:

American Technology Resources
1245 Providence Road,
Media,PA 19063
215/565-6434

	Discount Videodisc Players, wholesale
	Free catalog

Image Pre-Mastering 
1781 Prior Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55113
612/644-7802
	
	35mm slides >> 1" tape

Panasonic Industrial Corp.
2 Panasonic Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201/392-4603

	Write-once disc recorders.

Pioneer Communications
600 E. Crecent Avenue
Upper River, NJ 07458

	Consumer and industrial videodisc players.

Stokes
7000 Cameron Road
Austin, TX 78752
512/458-2201

	35mm >> 35mm >> 1" tape

3M
Optical Recording Department
223-5S 3M Center
St. Paul, MN 55144
612/733-2142

	Leading videodisc pressing facility.


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