A dvd replication company most of the times offer the services of duplication too. So what is the difference between disc replication and duplication? At home we burn blank discs. This is duplication because we record the information into an already made blank disc. Pirame movies are an excellent example of duplication while the original movie would be a replicated disc. Replication means that the information is recorded into the disc while the disc is being made.

A very visual difference is for example comparing the back faces of 2 DVDS. In the duplicated one you can see how the laser has recorded information up to a certain point in the disc. The recorded part is generally light blue while the unused part is dark blue. In the case of an original movie the whole disc is the same color kind of grey or platinum.

But when you play them on a DVD player the result is the same. ( If the pirates haven’t re-encoded the video to make it fit into a smaller capability disc)

Therefore when we copy a home a movie or a party video that we borrowed from a friend, what we are doing is duplicating the disc. But, if we need to mass produce it. Then the problem arises because doing it at our home pc it would take up to 15 minutes per disc approximately. We would be able to burn 96 disc per day non stopping. The machine would likely collapse.

A dvd replication company is able to produce up to 5000 disc overnight because the have the right equipment to do so. All you need to do is to provide them with the original. They will even create a design for it to be digitally printed on the disc surface and also a disc sleeve to protect the disc. All of this as part of the service. So time becomes a crucial factor.

Even if you have the time to try to produce all these disc at home you would need someone to be controlling the machines and also printing the rounded stickers. For this you would need a digital printer in order to look better than injection ink. Another option would be to buy that kind of disc that come with a printable surface but for that you would need a special printer that allows you to print discs. This of course takes a lot of time and money invested into a single task that could be made by professionals. The final result of course will be a professional looking disc with a nice design made by graphic designers with excellent packaging delivered right to you door in a convenient period of time.