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In The News - High Definition DVDs

Do you remember the VHS-Betamax format wars? Groups headed by Toshiba and Sony are touting their respective technologies (HD-DVD & Blu-Ray) to be adopted in the multi-billion dollar competition to become the next standard for DVD players, PC drives and gaming devices. The media recently reported that the two groups have given up efforts to develop a unified format. This means the free market will decide the new High Definition optical disc format. While this issue will first be critical to the movie studios, eventually the corporate world we service will want to shoot and distribute in High Definition. When that time comes, Action Duplication will be ready to provide you with High Definition DVD replication. For the latest on the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray battle visit http://www.hddvd.org/hddvd/

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Closed Captioning

According to the FCC, as of January 1, 2006 all non-exempt Broadcast Television programming must be Closed Captioned. This is a technology designed to provide access to television for people with hearing disabilities. Closed Captioning is also used by a much wider audience including children learning to read, people learning English as a second language, and for people watching TV in noisy environments such as bars and airports. Action Duplication provides quick Closed Captioning services. Please give us a call to quote your Captioning project if you have a program to be on broadcast television. Broadcast Engineering has a full explanation of the new captioning rules and a detailed explanation of the captioning process.

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Spice Up Your Next CD Or DVD Project

Be bold. Step out of the ordinary and try the extraordinary with your DVD, CD or VHS project. What seems like a standard video or multimedia project soon becomes wild, interesting, and attractive when presented in unique custom printed packaging. Our Sales Representatives can offer many options and our Graphics Department can help you design the perfect package for your project.

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High-Resolution On-Disc Digital Printing

How do we do it? Our technology enables us to print high-resolution 600 dpi digital images directly onto the disc. Your DVD or CD label designs will print with beautiful, rich, photo quality images, far better than silk screen, or even offset printing. Our On-Disc Digital Printing is process used by only a few select replication companies around the world and insures high quality printing of the images regardless of quantity. See here for more information.

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Action Accolades

Recently, we received some customer feedback that indicated our customers like to hear how other Action Duplication customers are using our services. So this section is dedicated to sharing stories from our customers to help others learn from their successes.

This month, a Production and Multimedia Company produced a program for a Medicare provider explaining the notification and appeals process under BIPA (Benefits Improvement & Protection Act). We were contacted to produce 2000 VHS tapes and 2000 DVD’s. The VHS tapes required custom printed face and spine labels and the DVD’s were printed in full color with 4-Color Printed inserts and assembled into SlimLine Jewel cases. The required turnaround time was 6 working days because the tapes and discs were needed for a critical end of month mailing. We delivered the completed project in plenty of time and our client was very impressed with the quality of duplication and printing.

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