Archive for the ‘DVD’ Category

A little while ago, we had another member of Walsall City Council come to us after a referral.  They had a DVD about Jacob Epstein, and needed a good number of discs to duplicated, printed, packed into black DVD cases and with a full colour inlay inserted.

Happy, as ever, to service another client, we duly went about our business and delivered the disc in style – 2 days earlier than requested, and well in time for their event launch that the DVDs were required for.  No last minute panics around here!

Following a successful year in 2009, we’ve been working hard at Eight Eyed Sea Bass to give you even better deals than before.

There’s been some changes to our prices for discs in 2010 – about 90% for the better.

On duplicated media (discs you burn), used for quick turnarounds, our prices on retail-grade silkscreen and offset litho CD-Rs have been reduced on quantities over 500 units. However, for DVD-Rs, the prices have been reduced from about 300+ units. Naturally, you can have us print and duplicate your discs, but of course you can have the media only printed at our highest quality, and the discs left blank for you or your staff to burn content on to.

On replicated media, the type of discs where we manufacture the discs with your content contained within, and the discs have a silver underside, we hope you’ll pleased to hear that every single price for all quantities over 500 units, both CDs and DVDs have been reduced across the board!

Normally, replicated (manufactured) discs normally take around 7-10 working days to deliver. We’ve even seen some companies deliver within 14-21 working days. Not only do we provide the best quality at EESB, but we deliver faster than our competitors.ÂWe can now even offer a UK SPECIAL service of delivering up to 10,000 replicated and printed DVD discs (without packaging) delivered in 4 days. Now that’s unique!

As you should know is our standard by now, all our prices include any set up costs and overnight courier shipping, so you will never see any extra hidden cost with EESB.

With our hard work and dedication to this ethos, and in creating these reductions, we managed to get some prices down by up to around 30-35% !

Now, CD replication starts from 11p, and DVD replication from 23p.
Use our Mystical E-Quoting System to price up your job. www.discs.eesb.tv.

We believe in providing the highest quality and the most reasonable prices to everyone.  Hopefully you are the sort of person who wants the best for the smallest investment.

Let us know!

New Year, new start, new projects, new prices!

What a great year 2010 could be. We’re quite excited here at EESB, knowing the projects that are on the roadmap for the short and long-term. We’ve got video pieces coming up, and we’ve go animation pieces coming up.

We’re also working on a brand new set of CD and DVD prices which are set to blow you away.

We’ll keep you posted as and when this becomes available. In the meantime, keep well!

What is socialbreakfast?

socialbreakfast provides a space for people to come together and express their views on the issues that matter to them in their communities.

The site encourages self expression and is not tied to any one particular political party, belief, opinion or faith.

Eight Eyed Sea Bass were asked by The Social Media Partnership to help them with an element of their presentation to members of the Government. As they had created a lovely looking website for the Social Breakfast, they knew there were going to be large plasma screens at their launch event at the House of Commons.

So, to fill these screens, they decided to have example pages from their website along with some nice scrolling action through a page or two, plus some animated mouse cursors to show some interaction on the site.

That’s where they asked us at EESB to come in, to create these animations and make them play from a DVD, looping forever, in the background of the event.

By all accounts, the launch was extremely succesful. We naturally wish our chums at The Social Media Partnership well with their future plans and endeavors.

Is there much better in the world than motorcycles?
How about Ducati motorcycles? !w00t!

Our great chums at The Gyst came back to EESB once again, with some footage of Ducati’s new 2010 range of bikes [droooool!] to edit into a looping DVD for the International Bike Show at the NEC, and also to be played in some dealer outlets.

Included in the brief was the task of duplicating a number of USB pen-drives with promo material, press-packs and product info.

We hope that the discs and the edit have gone down a storm for all concerned. A big thumbsup to The Gyst for their Christmas card too; cheers guys!

…. I must get me one of them Multistrada 1100 machines, they look awesome…..

It’s not often that we get to work on full blown feature-length films, so when turns up, we are happy to take part and do whatever we can.

The 13th Day, according to it’s producer, began life a few years ago as an ambitious short film about the miracle of Fatima, telling a Christian story. After working its way around a bit, it picked up some oomph from the Catholic Church itself – and the project ballooned in to a full blown feature length film. This was premiered simultaneously in Portugal and the USA through the wonders of the internet.

As the project was nearing its first major close, the production company were needing various flavours of DVD copies.

Eight Eyed Sea Bass was tasked with converting the TV broadcast Digibeta tapes to a run of DVDs at the highest possible quality. Alongside that, there had been a version of the film with Portuguese subtitles, which again needing duplication. Not only that, EESB had to create a DVD master for the American market (with their NTSC television sets), and do a small run of this type of disc also.

Not wanting to let the client have problems anywhere along the line, we also used our magic EESB powers to get an American NTSC master tape of the film transported from UK to USA overnight, compared to the 2-4 days most couriers were stating.

We hope that the film is a success for them – it does sound like they’ve pumped the last few years of their lives into this project, so we can only wish that they get their due rewards.

Good luck guys!

The film on the disc was created or managed by Kerrang Radio. It’s a fairly cool piece, with some great acting in parts, particularly the main protagonist.

As for our small part of the job, we are pleased we could deliver stunning retail grade DVDs for this city yet again.

Today we completed, mastered and uploaded for manufacture the content for the third iteration of Barclays Premier Life CDs. We created this in partnership with one of our disc manufacturing partners.

This is to do with a new service they have. We’ll be honest and say we’ve not had a chance to check out if the deal is any good or not – it probably is for some people, but you can find out for yourself by going into their branches and grabbing one of these discs.

What a crazy project this was…!

One of our partner DVD replicators had a job come in where the content part of the brief was to create a new DVD master, from 3 different DVDs.

Not the hardest thing, I hear some of you naughty DVD rippers out there exclaim.

But, this new master DVD not only had to contain not only the content of the original 3 DVDs, but also had to retain all the working motion menus, existing navigation, button links etc.

It also meant that there had to be a new top-level DVD menu which was shown first after starting the disc, so that you could select which of the 3 original DVDs you wanted to watch. Oh, and the user had to be able to get back to this new top-level menu.

Still with me?

Exactly, pretty mad, and some seriously technical DVD authoring to do.
Very hard, but very satisfying once I’d cracked it.

Luckily the client was please with it too. Good new all round then.

Keep well, all.