OT: DVD Fees

dreamlx wrote on 2/21/2008, 12:23 PM

Hi,

There is currently a thread about blue ray fees. In order to not mix up bluray and dvd, I started a new thread. I am just interested if you produce a dvd and sell it 500 times (mpeg2 video, ac3 audio), what royalties do you have to pay ? (assuming audio and video are royalty free) ?

I think of mpegla, but are there others ? Do you pay them or does you duplicator do it ? How do you proceed if you want to burn dvds on demand and don't know in advance how many ones will be sold ?

Thanks in advance
Bye,
David Arendt

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/21/2008, 6:47 PM

the replicator should know that. But I've never seen a replicator price that didn't include all necessary fees. At least not of the cheaper ones I've looked up (like customflix)

blink3times wrote on 2/21/2008, 8:06 PM

This from the liquid board (don't know if it's true or false.... just passing the info):

A while back - like a year ago - I contacted a local company that sends DVD's out for duplication - minimumn order is 1000 DVD's - and he inquired about having Macrovision and CSS encryption added - and it was an extra $300 for CSS or an extra $400 for Macrovision (for 1000 disks) - and you did not have to send a DLT - just your finished DVD -R disk.

BrianStanding wrote on 2/21/2008, 9:31 PM

I'd be interested in knowing this, too. If they really want you to pay licensing fees, they sure don't make it easy to find out what they are, what gets charged a fee and what doesn't, how to pay or to whom to send the check.