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What You Need To Know You've ripped through your journal, poured your heart into lyrics and your soul into the music that they flow through. You've sweated through arrangements, worked […]

The technology of writing to recordable optical media. Walter Hofmann, Multi Media Masters & Machinery SA, presented a paper at REPLItech Europe Vienna, which looked at a new recording media [...]

On the surface, manufacturing CDs looks like an extraordinarily clean process. Factory shop floors are cleaner than the best-prepared hospital operating room; plants themselves are almost eerily quiet and calm. [...]

Kodak concentrates on CD-R before DVD Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is admittedly right around the corner, but Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, believes strongly that recordable CD - known as [...]

Even though most consumers have come to accept the compact disc as the quintessence of sonic quality, there has been some grumbling in the audio industry that all is not […]

Whether two-color or six-color pictures and graphics are in demand, printing is undoubtedly one of the most important, technical and time consuming steps in the CD manufacturing process. How a [...]

In spite of recent breakthroughs in technology that would allow replicators to use plastic as a substrate material for CD masters, glass continues to be the material of choice. Much [...]

DVD has brought more than a new format to the industry. It's fueled research and development efforts that reach across the manufacturing spectrum and transform many of the most fundamental [...]

Mastering is trying to establish rules of the road for the 21st century using 20th century technology. By now, most people are aware of the disc mastering evaluation tests that [...]

In an announcement concerning SD high-density discs, Warner Music Group and Warner Home Video jointly announced the formation of a manufacturing and marketing unit that will 'pioneer the production' of […]

Sonopress, part of Bertelsmann BMG Entertainment, is Germany's leading producer of compact discs and is expected to produce 170 million units during 1995, against 150 million in 1994. Some 50% of production is for in-house labeling, the rest being produced for other labels. Sonopress was established in 1958 and has facilities in Hong Kong, Mexico, the US, Brazil and Spain, as well as its main German base. Turnover stands at more than 300 million German marks a year. A description of Sonopress's Guetersloh, Germany, plant is presented.

BOCA RATON -- AstralTech Americas Inc., a company that replicates compact disks and duplicates audio and video cassettes, is doing double the business anticipated since opening at Arvida Park of [...]

CD Technology in 1992: Monolines, Faster Speeds & Other Gains Improve Efficiency Over the 10 years compact discs have been on the market, overall technology has not changed much, according […]

Disc Manufacturing, Inc. (DMI), one of the three leading manufacturers of CD-ROM discs (the others are Sony and 3M) has expanded its CD-ROM replication capacity in both its Huntsville, AL, [...]

AMERICAN HELIX OFFERS NEW CD COLOR METHOD CD replicator American Helix Technology Corp., of Lancaster, PA, has developed a prorietary coloring system for CD manufacture. The Custom Color Resin System [...]