Re: Replication Delivery Requirements

I'm not sayin you can't write to a DLT. It is secure. The problems with DDP on DVD-R is the disc scratching and using low quality media. If you handle the DVD-R with care and your replicator accepts it then it is a perfectly acceptable format for replication. You need to burn the entire Layer0 folder to the DVD-R.

I actually have found more problems with DLT then with DVD-R or external HD. DLT's have many different formats and certain DLT machines will only read or write to certain DLT types. Plus DLt machines can and do write bad data just as anything else can, even with verify on. I experience this on occasion. More so then with DVD-R and HD.

We accept DDP on DVD-R with CSS. I actually tell most clients that have issues with DLT to submit back-up masters on DVD-R in case the DLT is unreadable. We have 2 DLT 4000, a DLT 7000, and a DLT 8000 and there are times that none of them will read a certain DLT.

Fact of the matter is I know that I can output DDP to HD or DVD-R and start working on another project within an hour. If I am writing to DLT it is a 4 hour process that ties that machine up. So if you have enough spare time then by all means write to DLT, I do not have this type of time so DVD-R is the perfect solution. Just make sure your replicator accepts this format first. If they do accept it (which they should) then as long as you don't scratch the disc you are 100% ok to use this format. For someone to tell you that you cannot is just not acceptable.

We accept DDP on a USB drive and it is gaining popularity since the drives are getting cheaper and cost less to send.

-Luke