[Tig] Re: [Tig ] Daily DVD shipping cases and Setup or noton--Daily Tk transfer to DVD

[gold at duplicorp.com]

>What's been your experience with shipping Amaray or slim-style
>(half-width) full DVD cases?

Amaray type boxes (I guess by now Amaray has stopped suing the miriad Asian
companies that make Amaray type boxes) being larger than the disk (so they
can
use flashy covers) when shaken strongly let the disk loose inside
scratching the shiny
surface against the holder. In a disk-sized jewell case the disk, even when
loose, can't swim around.
Also when Amarays are bent or crushed in the middle on transit they go back
to their original shape,
but the disk has suffered and the recipient is not the wiser. At least when
you receive a cracked jewell case you inspect the disk more closely and
when there's trouble you know who to blame.
We share very good jewell cases with local CD publishers, most of the cases
you buy at wholesalers are very poor quality.
Slim Amaray boxes (5mm or 7mm) are terrible holding the disk and you know
it's
going to swim inside all the way.

>I'm waiting to see what Stil Design's new DVD case is like late this
>year or early next year.

You are in California, capital of fancy plastics importers, enjoy. In
Caracas we have to settle for anything that can be imported by
containerload from Asia.

>How do you handle something destined for viewing on US television
>(analog, anyhow) which needs 7.5IRE setup for black to be correct?

7.5 IRE doesen't exist in the digital domain it's an analogue add on by the
deck or player, thus all NTSC DVDs should be identical wether they are for
Japan or the rest of the NTSC world.
The problem comes when you don't know if your DVD recorder or player was
made to Japanese or American standards.
An American DVD recorder expects its analogue incoming signal to come with
setup, so it strips it at input and restores white to 100 IRE.
A Japanese recorder expects its incoming signal to come without setup, so
it doesen't alter it.
When in playback the reverse happens.
To find what kind of DVD recorder you own, make a DVD of NTSC color bars
"generated and encoded in a NLE, not in the same recorder" and play it in
your DVD recorder to a WFM. If it shows setup it's American standard if
blacks are in "0" with no setup you have a Japanese recorder (even if you
purchased it in Cicuit City). 
If it's American, always feed the recorder with analogue signals with
setup. If it's Japanese, always feed it analogue signals without setup (100
IRE in all cases)
When in FireWire or SDI these problems never happen as no digital stream
should have setup, unless you did something wrong in DV, which is not
unusual with the cheaper Sony decks.
If you don't want to tamper a lot with proc amps, you can use a DAC to add
or strip setup from and to FireWire, the best bang for your money are the
excellent Canopus ones, from the ADVC-100 on.

Daniel Goldschlager
Duplicorp, Caracas, Venezuela


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