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December 20, 2001

CDR DUPLICATORS ACTING ON DEFINITIONS!!

THE INTERNATIONAL DISC DUPLICATING ASSOCIATION TO BOTH SUGGEST DEFINITIONS AND EDUCATE.

The IDDA - the International Disc Duplication Association which was established as a forum and a voice for those involved in the growing service of duplicating onto CD-R, has undertaken in its aims to help define terms used in the Compact Disc Industry so that those involved in disc duplicating understand and use the same standard terms with consistant meaning.

The IDDA represents members in the USA, Australia, Asia and Europe, including organizations that duplicate, label and pack CDs, together with those who manufacture and sell automatic disc duplicating machines, discs, labels and supplies.

What DO you mean?

There is considerable ambiguity in the usage of terms in the compact disc industry. Examples of these terms are the difference between duplicating and replicating, usage of the word ‘CD-ROMS’ to describe stamped discs, what is meant by ‘customization’, and the various descriptions of the different shaped small discs, now used for promotional purposes or as business cards.

Disc duplicators, and particularly members of the International Disc Duplicating Association waste a great deal of time and effort explaining the meanings of industry terms as or clarifying them in order to avoid confusion. Because there is no common definition of these terms in the industry, customers, who have enough difficulty understanding the technology without confusing terminology, are further confused by terminology.

Says Bernhard Kirschner, chairman of the IDDA: “In my own business we find it necessary to define each term used with clients in both discussion, websites and written quotes. We are still a nascent industry, where no-one as yet has tried to positively define terms, and then educate the industry on their meanings.”

THE IDDA IS WORKING ON SOLUTIONS

• The IDDA is will be publishing a glossary of suggested meaning of terms in the disc duplicating industry on its website www.discdupe.org. There is also a discussion forum for members, accessible to the public, and contributions can be added directly by IDDA members, while other interested parties can email their comments to discdupe@hotmail.com, for posting on the forum.
• The IDDA will urge the trade press to use terms as commonly understood by the industry, and to regularly publish the meanings of terms in their editorial pages.
• The IDDA will work with other interest groups and organizations in defining terms.
• Members of the IDDA will be encouraged to contact organizations who use confusing terminology in websites and advertisements to use terms as understood by the industry.
• The IDDA will maintain an open dialogue with all in the industry and present different views and different meanings of terms.
• The IDDA will be holding a forum and public discussions on definitions, (and other matters of interest to disc duplicators such as royalties, specifications, standards, and manufacturers’ support) on Wednesday afternoon from 3.00pm on February 13, 2002 during REPLItech USA in LA.

The IDDA will have a booth at REPLItech USA exhibition in LA, and invites all interested persons and organizations to visit its booth and discuss matters of interest to the disc duplicating industry.

For more information and IDDA membership application form see www.discdupe.org, or contact the Chairman, Bernhard Kirschner, at discdupe@hotmail.com.

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For list of members, see www.discdupe.org and select the button “MEMBERS LIST”

For more information, please contact Bernhard Kirschner,
Chairman, International Disc Duplicating Association
Sydney, Australia
Phone 61 2 9954 9885
Fax 61 2 9922 4801
discdupe@hotmail.com

Or Jeff Starfield,
CD\Works, Boston,
Phone 617 782-5884
jbs@cdworks.com

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