Posted by Lance on 01/08/06 04:42

ODC Nimbus manufactures CD/DVD mastering equipment. They have a few
short pdf's on the processes here:
http://www.optical-disc.com/techmat_techpaper.htm

A glass master disk is coated with photoresist, exposed with a laser,
developed, baked and coated with nickel. This glass master disk is used
to create father and mother disks and then a son metal stamper disk.

Lance
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NYC XYZ thought carefully and wrote on 1/4/2006 2:06 PM:
> Well, I'm going to ask alt.dvd.tech, then:
>
> Just what is the DVD production process?
>
> Seems like in this digital age, all that's needed is custom software to
> play traffic cop for some giant contraption into which is loaded tons
> of discs at a time to be baked.
>

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