The novel packaging of the DCC Documentary Blu-ray
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- A video looking at the unusual packaging for the Blu-ray release of the DCC Documentary.
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Q) Why is there a picture of a cheese sandwich on screen at the beginning?
A) A while ago I coined the phrase ‘A cheese sandwich video’ to describe a simple video that’s exactly what it is and nothing more - just like a cheese sandwich is a sandwich containing cheese.
These types of videos don’t take weeks to assemble. They’re often a brief demonstration of an item.
If you see the cheese sandwich image pop up at the start of a video - it's a sign to expect a less complicated and elaborate video. Sometimes all a product needs is a simple demonstration - and that’s where the cheese sandwich video comes in.
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For such a small-scale release, and what is essentially an indie film, I'm pretty impressed that they managed to keep the cost down to only $79 and still do the packaging like that.
Some companies would charge that price for the same amount of content _without_ the packaging.
It's definitely a neat product, though with the exchange rates all over the place right now and the rip-off that is the eBay Global Shipping program, I doubt I'll end up with one. Nice of them to put the documentary up for free as well, though.
Probably a passion project and are making absolutely nothing from it. There's a few projects that I'd like to 'just make' in order to own myself and not need to make money off of.
@@VncentValntine - Art is not always the best partner to capitalism and doesn't need to be if the whole idea is to share, enjoy and appreciate the art.
As long as all the costs are covered and the art is appreciated, I'd call it a success.
Most game companies. Store shelf 60, Digital download online 60? The same thing on their own platform 60? How does that make any sense?
@@WildStyle Yes if you buy a great game just on release. Nowadays you get great deals all the time (even - 100%) so gaming is cheaper than ever before.
The box screams “graphic design is my passion “
I find the disc designs a bit too busy though.
Personally, I thought it screams "I've just got some new DTP software and I want to try out *all* the different fonts!!!!".
He is referring to the felt techmoan flair, not the disc design I think!
The DCC Museum likes to use a different font for every word.
Haha, yeah, the design was VERY much late 90s. X_o ;)
Anders Enger Jensen That was the idea lol.
@@DRDCC Spot on! :D If the corona hell wasn't unleashed this year - causing all sorts of stock market issues, I was thinking about getting some releases on DCC myself. But the NOK is so weak right now, it'll cost me a fortune. :(
Anders Enger Jensen Did not know you owned a DCC player. Just reach out to the dccmuseum?. Maybe we can help.
@@DRDCC Naw.. it would be more a limited production for sales like with my cassettes, vinyl and MDs. But things are halted at the moment due to family crisis and temporary suspensions at work due to that virus going on now.
I can't help but compare this to the release Tool did with their 2019 album "Fear Inoculum" where the deluxe edition packaging featured a full 4-inch HD screen (featuring original video material), a 2-watt speaker (featuring an additional song called "Recusant Ad Infinitum").
rumor has it that the vinyl release will come with a built in record player
@@Targoon_Music 🤣
I own that version of Fear Inoculum. It's very nice, and the visualiser goes really well with the music. It goes on for about 10 minutes, then you have to close it/reopen it to get it to play again. Being a huge Tool fan, I had to have that version in my collection.
I bet those 2-watt speakers really show the music at its best.
@@binface9 It's kind of like when teenagers blast music out on the bus. The sound isn't the best quality, but for a novelty it's quite fun. The screen is actually quite nice.
When you are in a documentary, on blue ray, playing on a blue ray box, you really know you've made it. Nice to see the impact this channel has, congratulations Techmoan.
That extra sticker is a really, really nice touch. I have more than a few albums and books and such where I just clip out the cellophane with the sticker to keep the thing "whole".
I'll never get why there's not more people who do this. "It of course gets thrown away with the shrinkwrap" - no, not if you cut out the part with the sticker on it beforehand. I even pay extra to get a new copy of a CD etc. when I most certainly know that a used one wouldn't include the sticker.
I love features like this that serve no real practical purpose but are included simply because it would be cool and fun to do so
I love that whoever made the print on the disc just drag and dropped the folder with all the fonts in illustrator and called it a day
One day we were amazed by greetings card with music. Now you can watch a movie...
And I was excited when I bought the Pink Floyd album ‘Pulse’ with it’s flashing led back in the day. How times change!
Man. I forgot i Have that Album. I Hope the Battery didn't destroy it
Atheist Orphan that light was still PULSE-ing four years after I got that CD!
Dave Fink - Mine didn’t last that long, and I think I badly damaged the CD box trying to change the battery.
i have that but i completely fucked it up trying to change the corroded battery
That's a whole new level of crappy "Happy Birthday" cards waiting to happen...
Brilliant idea, though. Very impressive. Thanks to Ralph, and to you, sir. You seemed to have spurred interest in so many things most of us have never seen. Enough to create a a full production in some cases. Cheers to your positive influence.
That's what I scrolled down to comment also. Even if they cost 50 quid each there'll be enough people willing to pay that for a nice little business model. Plenty of companies would be willing to use this for market purposes too. Luxury brands especially.
Honestly a greeting card like that would be awesome.
There have been video greeting cards around for some years now - even ones that allow you to record your own video message. You can find them on Amazon.
@@waisinet interesting. Thanks for the info
I would love to see birthday cards with the cheapest possible screens in them playing terrible quality classic gifs
The packaging probably costs more than the product.
I thought he was gonna add a video of the muppets to it and play that at the end XD
I'm pretty sure that normal Blu-ray packaging costs more than the discs themselves. Optical discs are incredibly cheap to produce.
Wow!
@@ford1546 what about the job behind the packaging?? Let's keep going 😁
@@Laurabeck329 The disks themselves cost around 1-10 cents I believe. The royalties, content production, and packaging are the most expensive.
I wonder if Tool did this? If only the many commenters would let us all know.
Oh My God! It's MIND BLOWING! Congratulations to both you and the creator of this documentary!
A band called "Tool" released the album "Fear Inoculum" in 2019 and the inside cover had a 4 inch lcd screen and 2w speakers so you could watch the videos from album.
No shit! How much was it? I’m sure it was a deluxe edition
@@XANApwns It was the limited CD edition, prices vary from £50 (USA) to upwards of £100 (UK)
It was about 80 Euros. After it sold out, it went sky high.
@@jocool7370 I wondering now, if the ones I saw on ebay were knock off's.
@@rebusak47 It's possible. There were also plenty of scalpers looking to profit from the limited stock.
This is not what I was expecting, VERY impressive quality
The video screen in the packaging feels like something out of an 80s scifi movie
What an awesome achievement! You should be proud of being a part of this project. They were obviously honored to have you take part in the documentary.
This appears to be a first of what could be a very neat trend. I'm looking forward to see where this goes.
That is incredible. Not only is it super cool, how can they make it so affordably? I worked tons on distributing music and other stuff through physical media and it blows my mind that they got it done within that budget and looking this good.
My all time favorite audio media format of all times: DCC!
As a student at Wye College and later UKC in the early 90s, I often visited the classical music store in Canterbury (don’t judge me). The owner of that place was obsessed with the stereo sound staging on some recording by Haitink (possibly the DG Firebird) and tried to persuade me to buy the DCC of it every time I popped in. I resisted the urge and I suspect as a direct result the medium failed. Sorry Philips.
I remember getting one of these packages in the mail once from a fancy car dealership. They loaded it up with advertisements for different cars. This was probably 10+ years ago, but it looked pretty much exactly like that packaging.
They do this kind of thing at Tesco for their staff funny enough.
They used to do training (recaps) yearly via paper and multiple choice questions, but recently they've been handing out store's these booklet type things with screens and a speaker that work exactly like this DCC packing.
That's a box you don't throw away!
DCC - My favourite digital medium. The sound was far superior to minidisc, in my opinion.
But mini disc were so portable
....and I still have mine....and use it !!!
@@jonsingle1614 those extra 2 bits and the quality of compression really worked, but like you, I ended up with minidisc, for convenience.
The fact you can play it in the box... so cool! 😄👍
How unique! That is a very novel and creative set of packaging for what must be a passion project. Great unboxing video
I have a MYST 25th anniversary collection that is a full size myst linking book with the a screen just like that blu ray case too. Open it up and plays the clip just like in the game. And a hidden button that goes "woooaahhhh woah shish shihs "
Now you've taken me back with that!!
That is so cool. I want little screens in more places now, this is like the future I imagined as a 90's kid. I need something like a pop-up science or history book with screens on every page, just blend all the media together! So cool.
I would had like to have seen the INSIDE INSIDE of the box to see how the video and screen was made to play the video in the box.
Maybe he can send it to Big Clive to teat down!
It is a LCD like those used in mobile phones, and a chipset from Mediatek, designed for mobile use, just without the associated added chipsets that have the phone functionality. Likely just has a lithium cell with a protection circuit, a small board containing the main processor, a flash chip for media storage, or a SD card slot for an external card, some voltage regulators for the processor and LCD voltages, and a connector for the LCD itself. Then a hall effect sensor to detect the lid is closed from a magnet glued into it, and a small class D amplifier to drive the speaker, also a phone part. Keyboard a set of tactile buttons on the board back, where the cardboard can touch them ,and nothing else.
Shows that the sheer volume of mobile phone production is such that the entire lot can be obtained very cheap, even in low volumes, as a premade item. You also see the same displays in advertising displays in shops, where they are almost a throw away item, as they are rarely going to have updated content made for them, just send a new unit and USB power supply with, and throw the old one away.
I do have the prototypes, I think we can work on a “how it’s made” mini doc since I see so many others looking to see how this thing works. I will look into assembling something so everyone can see how this all comes together.
I doubt its too complicated, battery, one chip, wires for charging and the buttons are probably right above the chip.
"if you buy it , it's yours to do with as you wish "
Don't think Apple agree with you on that !
@@_to_dream_or_not_to_dream anglo Saxon. Kind of an offensive phrase and I'm celtic.
...but yet Prople still buy Apple stuff? Smh!!!
One word. dongle😠
That is the coolest packaging ever!❤️👍
This package's video brochure is a quantum leap above the rest! The port-accessible clip memory, that magnetic cutoff switch that shuts it down when you close the cover, the crush-resistant plastic frame. And that gorgeous screen! Older units use a DSTN (double super twisted nematic) screen that reverses out at certain angles like an old laptop, and only 320 x 200 pixels. This package's screen looks to be 640 x 360-pixel IPS, near-par to a phone screen in quality. You could actually watch an hourlong documentary on this screen without developing crippling eyestrain, couldn't you?
Oh, DCC. My favourite exotic format i never purchased!
Excellent, Quality, I follow the dcc museum, you much be proud to be apart of the documentary👍
That’s really cool (at every level). Love the packaging, shows the guy has a real passion for his craft. Oh, and am I the only one who zoomed in and used the QR code on the box to goto the site 😁. I’d love to see a video about that packaging too.
I've worked with these over the years for Dell, Sony and others. You can find them available at many print shops. They come in standard sizes from China. The printers print up the book box and stick the electronics in. Unit costs are around £5 depending on numbers
I love that idea, I think we could film something, especially now that we are all stuck at home for awhile, it might be fun to even do a live stream and show everyone how this all comes about. I LOVE that you scanned that QR code like that, I just love when people pay attention to the details as much as I do, it’s so much fun!
That’s a neat use for the packaging. At my office we once got some marketing materials from a company using a similar technique. It was a few years ago so the screen wasn’t as high of quality. And the video was fairly short that they included. One of my coworkers played with it a bit. I’m not sure if a whole movie could have been put on it. At least not anything at a decent resolution.
At the time, DCC was the only way to record and reasonably store digital audio due to the MP3 compression codec not being available yet. Some of the things that caused the DCC format to flounder were the litigations initiated by the "Music" Industry in an attempt to slow its adoption. Recordable CDs were just around the corner, however, and DCC languished long enough for the recordable CD to gain a foothold and popularity. The price of a DCC deck wasn't cheap either.
Wow I did NOT see that coming
Very nice Matt. This is a recognition of your expertise and research on these things. Congrats to you! And what a nice packaging for that blue ray set... Certainly something to have for the DCC-enthousiast.
Amazing novelty and wow-factor idea!
It makes me want to go and buy a DCC recorder.
My guess is that there is a company (or multiple companies) that produce those screen/package kits and then allow people to customize the packaging. I say this because I received a marketing kit a few years ago from a company trying to court me to use their software and it was contained in an almost identical kit. I ended up ripping out the electronics because I figured I could repurpose the screen!
It seems like the DCC folks saw this and ingeniously repurposed it for their DVD case. I suspect that either the DCC or the manufacturer of the device took the standard device and installed those little adhesive disc sleeves. Very cool presentation!
I knew it! I knew someone would eventually run with this idea. I threw this idea at a few friends about a year ago, so if I was thinking about having video/extra content built into the case then surely someone else had to as well.
In 2011 Russian version of magazine "VOGUE" included a player like that which played an ad of... something, don't remember. People quickly figured out that you can replace the video - and later hacked into its OS. The mag was priced normally and thus the next early morning IT guys bought every single one of them within a few hours. Keyword: "vogue-tec".
cool design with the video playing in the box and that was some of the finest packaging ive ever seen
The QR code just goes to the DCC museum. Good ole Binary Eye.
HOly craP! That's one of the best packaging designs I've ever seen.
Beautiful!! That's some premium packaging right there!
The extra sticker is a great inclusion!
Don't know if others have done it, but the band Tool made similar packaging for their newest album Fear Inoculum, maybe that could peak your interest :)
Brilliant and looks very well put together. Well done the DCC Museum.
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Reminds me of the old PSP demo display that i snagged from the Gamestop where I used to work. It had six touch pads that you could slot game case art into, and it would play a video numbered 1-6 when one of the touch pads was tapped, or default to looping video 0. I loaded it with some random clips and a Osamu Tezuka movie. If I hit touch pad 1, it plays Bagi: The Monster of Mighty Nature.
That is so cool. Reminds me of a dream I had many years ago. A photo album with movies instead of stills .
Nice packaging, absolutely hideous artwork though.
WoW you are the star you deserve to be Matt ....... You are now a part of of the things you love
The video postcard which has been integrated into the disc box here has made its rounds over a few trade shows. Runs on camera processor Allwinner V3S. Might have an LCD which is a vaguely compatible copy of the one found in the Playstation Portable all those many years ago with 272p resolution. The V3S doesn't really need a multilayer board and is compatible with a variety of really cheap manufacturing techniques, if you don't necessarily need it to fit within the smallest space possible.
I do want one of those video postcards to tinker around with someday.
The new Tool album was released with a video screen as well. It was a introduction to the album before playing the CD
I was at least expecting an outer sleeve with a window mimicking a DCC case.
Bezalel Geretz You have to look closely..... but thats exactly what the entire case looks like. The outer box is the push package and the case with video the actual dcc with slider.
I can just imagine a best of compilation cd with interviews on the screen and behind the scenes stuff. I'm sure it would be expensive but that would e awesome
Excellent. Fantastic packaging!
My company uses these often for promotional use - specifically coincidentally, to send to CZcamsrs and social media influencers, they average $10-15/ea for these "video postcards" including the hardware (rechageable via USB mini) printing of the outer wrap, and packing in choice of methods; this one however with all the inserts, foil printing, etc. must've cost a bit more (usually for labor) really great use case! as you can tell - the file naming is standard for 'kiosk video players' used in retail, which was primarily what these sized screens were used for. Often times the screen is double-wrapped in two layers of paperboard. both the outer custom printed one, and an internal one to protect the player and ship them to the vendor that does the printing and insertion. google 'video postcards' to read all about this kind of device, they're quite readily available, just little known.
I think one of my favorite bands, Dire Straits, came out on DCC. I was a little short of money at the time and couldn't afford to get into a new technology.
Holy flipping heck, a new Techmoan video! My day is saved. Thank you so much 🍄🍄🍄🍄
That was very impressive. An amazing way of packaging a Blueray DVD. Others could learn from them
I believe this would live comfortably on my desk at work as rickroll bait. *opens front cover* We're no strangers to looooove. Dammit!
It was an interesting format that came and went before I had a chance to get one... and I’m usually an early adopter.
Thanks Matt, I just bought a copy.
I like how the usb cord is like an old rca cable
Oh Jesus, this type of packaging. I work in the mailroom at a medium sized business in the US and we get one of these per year from a large, international conglomerate that wants us to invest in their equipment. Not naming names here but you know who you are.
PLEASE STOP.
By the way, I just chuck these. Took one apart to see what makes it tick and found a Chinese website that sells customized packaging like this for a few dollars per package. It's crazy what technology has become. Ten, fifteen years ago this would have been the highest of tech. Now it's annoying mail clerks as junk mail.
Birthday cards will never be the same after this.
Well done all around!
That's really cool, the amount of effort put into packaging.
Amazing packaging!
I must admit that was pretty awesome and I'm hoping someone will do similar with Minidisc quite soon, again you'll be in that one as well.
The most amazing case I've ever seen. Great work.
As a physical media collector, mainly DVD/Blu-ray movies and video games on optical discs this is a pet peeve of mine. As nice as the packaging is it's perplexing it doesn't have actual disc holders for the discs! I hate this type of thing when I buy something nice but I have to smudge the discs to actually use them!
MadFinnTech I completely agree. I hate touching the disc physically almost as much as I threatens to break arms if anyone touches a computer screen lol. It was so impossible to design this and make two discs fit this packaging vision. Of the hundreds of options ‘this was the only way I could make these work with the package and the player mechanics. I made sure to step up however, like with all things that I do, quality is paramount, and only the best of the best is used. We use M-Disc. They are actually made of a stone like material and withstand everything. This thing is bulletproof. I sympathize with you, about touching the disc, but I think this option offers the minimal amount of thickness, full disc protection, with the flap up, touching the printed side of the disc to slide it out, then holding the hub and the edge allows the disc to receive the minimal amount of prints. I used thermal printers here, so even alcohol cleaning of the printed surface will not harm the image.
Amazing packaging, I was both agog and agape when the video started playing in the package.
Nice little touches!
That is the coolest box I've ever seen!
Very cool packing concept!
Looks really smart. Like the presentation.
I have a sudden burning desire to play through Doom on the inside of a DCC documentary Blu-ray case.
That is the future of physical media (got to go with the gimmick because of streaming).
Congrats Matt, YOU are now an official museum piece, haha.
LOL I was watching your 2018 Quadphonic record from Suzanne when you uploaded!
Now that’s a novel and cool package!
And here I was thinking it was just gonna packaged in a giant DCC package that held a Digipak of the discs, kinda like the Stranger Things Blu-rays but with DCC instead of VHS.
The only thing missing was a copy of the soundtrack on a DCC
I didn’t even notice the cheese sandwich at the beginning. Is this the first cheese sandwich video? I’m sure any Americans watching won’t appreciate me saying that in this part of the world, the North of England, the cheese sandwich is a hilariously funny but also simple way of denoting a specific kind of video and a very good idea!
There’s been two or three, but they’ve been spread out over the last year.
Impressive boxing, up untill the bit that actually holds the disks, thought that was a bit tacky just two thin plastic sleves glued to the box. Never the less, well done on your involement, good to see your hard work incuded in this.
cool and all. but from a graphic design perspective. the cover...oh dear
I think it's a wink to the style of the early 90s when you saw this a lot
@@fhwolthuis still looks like a cover to early 90's time share video seminar
Dear Techmoan, please bring back the muppets at the end of your videos again, they were such a treat. Or better, make a review entirely done with muppets.
Enjoyed this Mat. Please feel free to upload as much as you want -- Boxing's....unboxings....blathering....way things are at the moment with lockdown it's nice to have stuff to watch💻👍
Wonderful idea!
They are from the Netherlands, these type of packages used to be more common than now a days.
I still have a few of these of my current employer.
Love this format .. . DCC rocks
Fantastic Packaging thanks for sharing...Vic
Tool's Fear Inoculum has a screen too!!
Great to see here that you are being featured in this documentary. But can you tell us more about the "video brochure" technology used to create this packaging? It would be fun to be able to hand someone a "movie on a card."