Sorry, “on spec” generally means you are willing to work for no guaranteed pay arrangement, “speculating” that your production quality and professional look/decorum, and prices for the resulting DVD you hope to sell MANY copies of, will bring in enough orders to make the gamble worth your time and effort, and maybe result in renewable business.
On Spec and gambling are probably, for the most part, interchangable in this respect, but the point of my blog regarding doing so is that the odds of gaining something valuable from working “on spec” are much better than most gambling odds.
I failed to define “on spec” here, while coming closer to doing so in the blog article – my bad.
