Duplication uses a completely different method from replication for producing the final disc. It uses premade blank discs to burn your data using a CD or DVD burner. Many people have a CD or DVD burner on their PC and use it for making copies of data files, movies, etc..



Duplicating a disc uses a burner capable drive and alters the surface of the blank disc by bouncing a laser off the dye in the disc. As the disc spins, the laser writes outward and the spin or burn rate is determined by the burn rate of the drive doing the writing.

DVD burners are dual purpose and can burn both CD and DVD media. You will see the term CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and various others. The R in the terms stands for recordable and if there is no W present, then that means the discs can only be burned once. If there is a W present, it stands for Writable and can actually be burned to numerous times even overwriting what is present on the disc if needed. The draw back to re-writable discs is that many times if won't play on any other player other than the one that created it where as a one time recordable disc will usually play on any player.

Mediatechnics uses their own line of equipment to duplicate CD and DVD media for small or large jobs. They have the capacity to turn any size job as quickly as needed.