On Friday 27 December 2002 02:43 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: > The best thing about having the iso out before > the boxed set is that you have all of these people testing and reporting > problems back to get fixed.
No. The ISO is in theory the same as what gets shipped, and in practice may actually be slightly more updated. Pressing, packaging and shipping take time. If you could collapse the lead time on pressing and packaging to a few days (e.g. by packaging some of the first pressing batch before pressing completes, a JustInTime mode like Nippon uses for producing their cars, and/or distributing the pressing and packaging operations so they occur near the few biggest markets), you could orchestrate a simultaneous release by airfreighting the first packages direct from packaging facility to stores and charging a small premium for them. Cheers; Leon
