CD DVD Duplication Replication Advice and Tips Blog by DiscMasters

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Beyond CD / DVD duplication and replication services, DiscMasters provides disc manufacturing and packaging equipment sales. The following units have been recently added to our equipment page:
2002 Singulus Automatic ReWritable Optical Disc Manufacturing System (for all RW formats)

An entire optical disc manufacturing system like this rarely becomes available. Click the image above to see full […]

Best Buy VP Gary Arnold weighs in on ProPack CD sleeve packaging and music consumer trends in retail.
Big box retailers–Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, etc.–now have 65% of the market for printed music CDs, and downloads. Record stores, like bookstores, are a threatened species.
Downloads and iPod enthusiam notwithstanding, CDs still account for 85% of […]

Burn your master no faster than 8x speed. Every disc has errors, whether it’s duplicated or replicated. Burning your master at speeds faster than 8x increases the number of errors in your disc. It may still play fine, but the higher number of errors means your final manufactured cds or dvds will be more susceptible […]