Compact disc manufacturing
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Compact disc manufacturing is the process by which commercial compact discs are replicated in mass quantities using a master version created from a source recording. This may be either in audio form o
Example of a stamper used in the compact disc replication process
CDs are printed in waterless offset
Optical disc authoring
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Optical disc authoring, including CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded
Compact disc manufacturing
…corruption. They can be manufactured to strict manufacturing tolerances for only a few US cents per disk. Replication differs from duplication (i.e. burning used for CD-Rs and CD-RWs) as the pits and lands of a replicated CD are moulded into a CD blank, rather than being burn marks in a dye layer (in CD-Rs…
A burnt Sony DVD holding a pirated copy of The Simpsons Movie