Selling Your Own DVDs

Cassandra Riddick found this very informative piece on self DVD distribution, for those filmmakers we know thatmay have particular title that would not be suitable for the full out createspace.com approach to DVD packaging and shipping. Consider this sound and detailed advice, of course, your alternate route. Here is is below:



"If you're going to package the discs yourself, the quality is not going to be great and you should price accordingly. I believe the some companies that do the pressing will just do packaging and printing. So you could get a bunch of cases and discs with art on them and all you have to do is burn the data to the discs. You should look carefully at pricing to determine if this is worth it. I think the smallest run most of these companies with do is 500, with many of them only doing 1,000.

It's not worth ordering a glass master if this is a limited run and you can't use it anyway if you're using a consumer DVD duplication tower. However, using standard DVD-Rs (or DVD+Rs) is not going to guarantee the disc will play in every player. So just be aware you might have to refund to people who have old DVD players."

Read Full piece HERE:

http://www.makingthemovie.info/2009/02/advice-on-selling-your-own-dvds-of-your.html