Primera Bravo Disc Publishers

Basics

• A company that seems to be the main (if not only) producer of prosumer grade Automated Systems for Optical Disc Burning and Printing
• You put a stack of "fresh" unburnt CD DVD or Blu-Ray etc discs on one side, a gantry lifts them up one at a time, places them in 1-2 (depending on option) burning drives, then once done places them in a "print tray". Finally they are put into the finished stack and/or dropped out a slot in the front into a container or the "kiosk module"
• Would have utility for Publishing small runs of Discs (kind of what was planned for the GVCS way back)
  • GRANTED due to the low cost of Flash Media , publishing online in an os manner makes more sense for this application, along with 2D Barcodes and *maybe* a SD Card Duplicator etc
• HOWEVER for Data Storage (Particurally in Archiving / "Cold Data" ) along with the slightly more vulnerable Magnetic Tape (Such as LTO Tape mainly, although modernized D-VHS would be interesting!), and the far more resilient but more complex Subsurface Laser Engraving based data storage in transparent media such as Borosilicate Glass , discs have the advantage of stability
  • Short of a fire, or severe UV bombardment, or shattering, Optical Discs can be far more resilient compared to other methods:
    • Cannot be De-Magnetized (unless you count odd Magneto-Optical Stuff) (Such as Spinning HDDs or Tape)
    • Doesn't degrade link Paper or Microfiche/Microtape
    • Doesn't require power to keep data long term (such as Flash Memory) (Minor nuance in that obviously SSDs can work without power, but long term data rot does occur)
  • Recall Speed is an advantage of Optical over tape outside of longevity. You get recall similar to SSD, but stability of tape (LTO Tape requires essentially the same rewinding as a VHS but for moving through it's *giant volume*
• WORM Type Archival Grade Disks (Most are versions of bluray if i rememeber correctly) would be the main media of choice
  • [[DVD-RAM] and modernized versions are a curiosity that may pan out
• Going to clean out the above later , but TLDR these things are neat and may still have a niche

Used Market

• Due to them being somewhat obsolete, there are a decent amount on the used market
• User: Eric here, i'm debating getting one i'll keep you posted (also probably lowest of low priority, but may be worth a glance Marcin? I don't know what all you have Publishing wise (one of those fancy "can print a pile of brochures" printers, etc), and if that is really needed in the paperless age / with printshops and all that but yeah
  • I'll keep you all posted