On Sunday 29 December 2002 06:07, Leon Brooks wrote: > 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
I could remember from 8.2 if i'm not mistaken that the pressing didn't start for a week after going gold
