"Bob May" wrote in news:Y_CdnWCoQqG1De_ZRVn- snipped-for-privacy@nethere.com:
Would that have been DMI? (Disc Mastering Incorporated) I worked for them for a while in the late 90's in various positions, eventually ending up wearing a bunny suit in the mastering department.
One of the mastering machines I got to play with was the first one to ever master a disc in the US. Took up a whole 4x8 isolation table and a pair of full height racks full of equipment. Although we had other more modern equipment which was only half the size of a fridge, this one was still used for those special discs that weren't spec, like those that crammed 85 minutes of music on a disc. We could manually control all the important parameters like track pitch, bit rate, etc...
Then there was the DVD mastering machine...the one with the UV laser so you couldn't see a damned thing on it.
I actually regret having quit there, but it wouldn't have mattered. When I was there a Canadian company called Cinram had bought them. Shortly after I quit, they shut down the plant and moved all the operations back east.
Brian