Re: this is a first...

Well...the US tresury has a simple solution to things like that...

They make a single "master" printing plate (or die) of a bill.
Then they use the master to make a "sub-master" die.
The sub master is then used to make 100 "working" dies.
Working dies actually print the money.
Each working die is used until it is worn out.	Then it is distroyed.
The operators just go back and get another working die, and keep going.
When they run out of working dies, the same sub-master die is used to 
make 100 more working dies.
When a sub-master is worn out, they distroy it, and make a new 
sub-master from the master die.
Master dies are only replaced by recreating the die.
And the whole long process starts over...

This means that they can keep printing the same bill for a ludicrissly 
long time.

If the movie industry did something similar, say only 5 sub-master 
copies of the film.
Then use these to make a "language master" for each of the major
languages.
Then use the language masters to run off all the working copies/DVDs
needed.

Home videos would be on DVD.  Each copy would be cheap and perfect.

Sounds doable to me...

Donald Hosford

Katie Lucas wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:18:23AM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:55:42AM -0500, Donald Hosford wrote:
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>>>I often wonder why they don't just do away with the entire "region
code 
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>>Because films are still distributed on celluloid, which is expensive
>>enough that they generally can't afford enough prints for a
simultaneous
>>world-wide release. And no cinema chain wants to show a film that's
>>already available to buy, even if you do have to order from overseas
to
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>Erm. That's not the case these days.
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>We get UK production prints. Mostly because by the time they've been
>run 24x7 in a multiplex for a few weeks prints are **trashed**, so the
>US prints are binned at the end of their run.
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