Computers

DVD Duplication

You might wonder what DVD duplication is, but you should first know that it has two primary meanings. We’ll start with the first and less than legal meaning of DVD duplication. If you were to borrow a DVD or rent one from a rental service, if you had the correct equipment you could perform DVD duplication, which effectively makes a copy of the DVD that you have, meaning you do not need to buy it in order to watch the DVD again. Additionally this type of DVD duplication can be used to create a number of bootleg copies to be sold on to others or given as gifts. While you might see this as harmless it is unfortunately a crime and is not tolerated. Previously this kind of duplication on VHS formats had a marked difference in quality which means that people often would stay away from bootlegs because of the poor quality of the audio and visuals. With digital media and DVD duplication, you can get a perfect copy of a DVD as a bootleg and may never know the difference. While a vast technological advancement, it is not good for the film and television industry along with independent media outlets.

The legal meaning of the phrase DVD duplication is the type of DVD duplication done in official printing plants where films are written to the DVDs and then the artwork and packaging for the disk is then complied and put together for shipping out to retailers. The DVD duplication process is not much different from the way bootleggers perform the same operation these days, but the DVD duplication is done on a larger scale in official plants and often are quicker due to the use of industrial DVD writers that are either massively expensive to the general public or simply impossible to get. DVD duplication can be used for both legal and illegal means as you now see, but the true irony lies in the fact that the process and equipment used is so distinctly similar that the only real difference between them outside legality is the scale of the operation.

 

 

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