DVD-R movies from Amazon?

[Ran]

Have any of you guys seen this on amazon? I was looking for Under the Rainbow on DVD and the following note was in the description.

DVD-R Note: This product is manufactured on demand when ordered from Amazon.com.

What are CD-R and DVD-R media?
CD-Rs and DVD-Rs (the "R" stands for "recordable") look like the discs you're used to and offer the same audio and image quality. This recordable media is used to manufacture titles on demand, as fully authorized by the content provider.

Through manufacturing on demand, CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies, enables Amazon.com to offer music and video content that might not otherwise be available. Each disc comes fully packaged, with artwork, in a standard jewel case for audio and an Amaray case for video, although for reissued products the artwork may differ from the original.

CreateSpace works with many of the leading music labels, television networks, film studios, and other distributors to make these titles available to Amazon.com customers. All products are manufactured from original source materials (e.g., for audio products, uncompressed CD-quality audio).

By eliminating inventory, waste, and inefficiencies in the distribution system, on-demand manufacturing provides the added benefit of helping preserve the environment.

When shopping, you'll see CD-R or DVD-R on the product detail page for such products. Amazon.com's standard return policy applies to these purchases.

[Diabolical]

The initial DVD release of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was sold through Amazon and some people received DVD-Rs (but not many apparently).

Since then there has been a wider release of the DVD which are all pressed discs.

[anarky]

I've gotten a couple of albums that were on CD-R (including the "Mayhem of the Music Meister" soundtrack). They're shrinkwrapped and manufactured in such a way that you'd never be able to tell. I think it's more a "produced on demand to save costs of a full print run" thing than it is a "copy."

[Rollo Tomassi]

It is the initial digital conversion and compression of a film(or album) which costs studios any kind of investment. After the digital master is made of a film, making copies (or copies of copies, since digital copies don't degrade like magnetic tapes would from one generation to the next) is a pittance.
And technology has advanced where even that isn't as expensive as it once was.

So those $5 WalMart Dvds in that big dump bin? Yeah, those are marked up like 1000%.

[Ran]

Well, they want $22 for a copy of Under the Rainbow. Must be a pretty hefty mark-up there. I remember it being funny, but I'm I haven't seen it since the 80s. Not sure if I want to put up that much money for a copy of a movie that I vaguely remember liking 20-something years ago. I have to stop by Fry's electronics this weekend. Maybe they will have it.

[anarky]

Holy shit, that is pricey. I've never gotten a movie on DVD-R from there, but CD-R's have been in the $5-7 range.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Holy fuck! No wonder illegal downloading is rampant. Y'know there's FREE software you can load off the net that you can burn a copy of any DVD. They even have updates that keep up with modern anti-copying security. But for an older film like that one if you can find it on netflix or something, just burn your own copy and send it back. $22. They cry foul when they're the abusee, but have no problem when its them fucking your wallet.