Flash memory price increases due to shortage in production

In the last few weeks there have been massive increases in the cost of flash memory.

This continues to affect the prices of USB's on a global scale.  It has largely affected small chip products in the 1GB and 2GB range but is across the board to some extent.

The increase in prices is due to large purchases of flash memory by consumer companies (typically new phone and tablet production). This has resulted in a shortage of smaller capacity chips which is forecast to continue for sometime.

Quotes for the forseeable future will be on a weekly basis until the supply issues are resolved.

Sony discontinues MiniDisc Players

Recently Sony have announced that they are discontinuing the production of MiniDisc players
Sony has announced that they will stop making MiniDisc players next month (March 2013).

The highly anticipated MiniDisc format was launched in 1992 as the intended replacement for cassette tape. This was around the same time as the ill fated Philips DCC or Digital Compact Cassette (digital recordings on an audio cassette sized fomat compatible with analogue tapes)

MiniDisc has had a surprisingly long run given intense competition in the last few years from MP3 players such as the Apple iPod. It gained a lot of fans for backing tracks, sfx effects playback (due to the text information for easy identification of tracks) and as another generation of Walkman style playback.

Portable MiniDisc players were discontinued in 2011. The company has stated that it will continue to manufacture MiniDisc media.

ProCopy can transfer minidiscs to other digital formats including CD Audio, Data discs as Wav files, mp3s, Aif etc, or portable hard drives. Please call 1 300 4 PROCOPY or 08 9375 3902 for more information,

Do you need Video Copy protection on your DVDs?

Video producers that are reliant on income from sales of physical product have suffered for the last few years by having their Masters copied or illegally pirated.

At ProCopy we have an effective method of copy protecting your DVDs so that you can maintain or even increase your sales.

If you are producing DVDs of Weddings, School Balls, Concerts, Sports matches, corporate presentations or other entertainment programmes you should consider protecting your income.

We can copy protect from 1 to thousands of copies. 

Call ProCopy on 1300 4 PROCOPY or 08 93753902. for more details.

ProCopy Quick Tip:

 Before supplying any reference copies or completed masters to your clients make sure you only give them a copy protected version. Once there's an unprotected master out there it's much harder to control the sales of your projects.

Unsigned Only Music Competition closes soon

Once again the Unsigned Only Music Competition closes it's submissions soon. March 14th is the cut off date for the 2013 competition so get your songs in. It's good to see that independent Aussie artists always do well.

Unsigned Only is a unique music competition designed for solo artists, bands, and singers all over the world who are not signed to a major label record company or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or imprints. The goal of Unsigned Only is to find an outstanding, talented performer: a band, singer, or solo artist...a newcomer or veteran...raw or polished - the “gem” that needs to be discovered. Unsigned Only is looking for the total package.

Conceived of and produced by the team who bring you the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC),

ENTER UnSigned Only Music Competition here:  

Unsigned Only is sponsored by Sony Creative Software, Disc Makers, D'Addario, Mrs. Fields Cookies, The Music Business Registry, Celebrity Accesss, and CAD Audio.

Get your CD orders in early for Boyup Brook and Fairbridge Festivals

With the annual music festival season getting underway in a couple of weeks it's a good idea to get your CD and DVD projects underway early.

Whether you're doing a short run card sleeve CD or bulk run of digipacks We've got artwork templates and helpful hints on our website to help you get that part underway, ineviatably we find the artwork prep is the area that slows down a new release.  Click here for templates

Allow time to get the completed masters and artwork to us, so that we can deliver the finished product to you before you make your way to the events. 

Call Lyndsey on 08 9375 3902 to discuss your upcoming project.