I have a DVD burner and state of the art software along with a killer machine and a wonderful digi-cam. Recently a good friend sent me his latest DVD. He said, "I'll give you a copy if you don't mind burned as opposed to pressed."

Huh?

Then I looked and saw what he meant. The burned ones are blue on the back.

Does this make a difference? And if I should press them is there anywhere that I can buy the equipment to do that or do I have to hire someone?

DVD Replication vs DVD Duplication
There is a huge difference between replication and duplication when it comes to your company's image. Duplication means burning the DVD normally with using a DVD burner. Replication means creating a glass master and then using the glass master to create stampers that are used to stamp out your pressed DVDs at high speed in high volume. The big difference is that replicated DVDs will work on all players whereas burnt DVDs will work in a maximum of 95% of players. This may not seem like a problem until you get a call from a customer complaining about the low quality of your DVD because he cannot play it... or worse still no phone call.

From this site... http://www.dvdinfinity.com.au/dvd_replication.htm

Kevin

Pressing costs a lot. You don't press a single DVD, you press 1000's of those. For a lesser number you burn them.

That's what I thought. I was hoping that I could buy a presser, I guess not.

Hey Tex,

Check out:

http://www.discmakers.com/