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Media Duplication Explained

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When producing CD or DVD media, the choice of duplicating or replicating them is often confused. Duplication and replication are totally different processes and should be used accordingly for the type of target market your producing the discs for.

Replication differs from duplication in that the process for replication uses a glass master to produce duplicates out of molded plastic resin discs and duplication uses premade blank discs and burns the data into a dye in the disc with a laser. You can not replicate a disc from your PC but you can duplicate a disc if it's equipped with a drive that burns discs.

Burning to a blank disc is accomplished by using a laser to bounce light of the dye in the disc moving outward as the disc spins. Spin rate or "Burn" speed of the disc is determined by the rating of the burner and the blank disc. Not all burners or discs burn at the same speeds.

Today's DVD burners can write to both CD and DVD media. The media itself is branded with terms like CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW as well as others. The one consistent identifier among all the various brands is the R or the W. If the disc is labeled with just the R, it means the disc can be recorded to once and only once. Once recorded, that disc will play on most drives. If the disc is labeled with the W, which shows that the disc can be written to numerous times and even over written and used like afloppy disc. The disadvantage to this type of disc is most often than not, it will only play in the drive that originally wrote to it.

Mediatechnics is an industry leader in manufacturing the equipment used to mass duplicate CD or DVD media. They have the capability to duplicate any number of CD or DVD discs in as short as 24 hours. If you need a quick turn or simple DVD Duplication service, be sure to give them a chance to quote it before you get it done elsewhere.

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