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jnavas@netcom.com (John Navas) writes:
>Michael Dillon <michael@junction.net> wrote:
>> Of course, the high speed replicators will be useful when everybody and 
>> his brother wants to rent the latest and greates all-hyped hit movie. 
>> Just make more copies. This is the way it should be.

>To my knowledge there is no such animal as a "high speed replicator" that
>can write a normal SP VHS cassette in 20 minutes (6x speed).  That would
>be more realistic with disc technology, but even there it's still beyond
>the current state of the art.

Gee.  I get to scoop _you_, John?

Wow.

Commercial duplication of VHS video tapes for the rental/sell-through
market is customarily done on a machine called a pancake duplicator.  It
uses a thermal process to contact print the movie from a master tape, and
then loads it into a cassette and clips and crimps it.

Hint: these things are _not_ cheap.  (Figure $100k a pop, I think.)

They do, however, run at between 60 and 120 ips, quite a bit faster than
helical dubbing.

Cheers,
-- jr 'I'd have to double check the speed, but they're fast' a
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