Dischromatics and Breaking Barriers Team up to produce Personalised DVD for Children.

Breaking Barriers Community Arts specialise in producing Digital Storytelling across all spectrum's of society and is a not for profit social enterprise based in Llanilleth, Blaina Gwent. With grants and other funding becoming more difficult to obtain, they decided to create their saleable original children’s Personalised digital stories on DVD.

Chairman of Dischromatics Ltd, Stewart Spencer sits on the board of BBCA as a business adviser through an arrangement with Arts and Business Cymru, Stewart explains “The board of Breaking Barriers have a duty of care towards the social enterprise and decided to approve the production of the personalised DVD project in order to make up for any shortfall in funding and to allow the staff to continue producing high quality digital storytelling to the benefit of the local community and beyond”.

With all things Breaking Barriers produce, the essential characteristic of the final product was that of quality in every aspect, from the original story and graphics to the unique packaging. The project has been professionally managed and controlled by Natasha James who has had to work to extremely tight time-scales in parallel with many other projects in production at the company. Nevertheless there has been no compromising the quality of the final product and anyone purchasing these DVD’s will be extremely satisfied with the result.

Customers will be able to add the name and upload photographs of their child, choosing from different animal outfits within the story. The story itself is based on the well-known nursery rhyme “Hickory Dickory Dock and is about the clocks losing their “Dock”.

It is envisaged that the latest personalised DVD will not be the last and the theme of producing in both English and Welsh languages will continue and fill a void in the market for such unique products. Anyone interested in reading more about the story can visit the Breaking Barriers or for more information about BBCA email natasha@breakingbarriers.org.uk

New French Student Arrives today

Dischromatics welcomes Sébastien Viallemonteil to the company, unfortunately he missed the bus! So we will hopefully see him tomorrow. Dischromatics often takes French students for a period of training and for a cultural exchange, which is of great interest to both the student and the staff of Dischromatics.

With so many important changes and additions in products and services introduced over the last twelve months and with further developments on the horizon there is always something of interest happening within the company. No other CD and DVD Duplication and Replication company can boast of the achievements of Dischromatics since its birth in 1989.

Dischromatics has been a Sony DADC partner for over eight years and is now the only one in Wales. With accreditations for ISO 9001 and 14001 along with Investors in People Standard, again no other company of our size and in our field of business has achieved these fine accreditations and awards.

Furthermore, with a Professional Creative Graphic Design department along with DVD and Blu-ray Authoring capabilities in-house and a High end Digital Printer, creasers, folders and guillotines. Leaving this Company with total control of production, costs and lead times. Dischromatics is truly a one-stop shop that can compete on price with any other supplier

With some very prestigious production orders including graphic design and fulfilment completed over the past couple of weeks, Dischromatics reputation for quality and great customer service is expanding not just within the UK but to other countries such as the USA, Malta, Australia and many countries within the EU.

Plans are now afoot for the introduction of new products and services which will further utilise current resources but will also demand further training and knowledge transfer. The workshop will be doubled in size to accommodate the increase in demand and to ensure extra capacity is maintained for all our very important customers, large and small.

CD and DVD Duplication

Dischromatics provides CD Duplication and DVD Duplication from its in-house suite of modern duplication and printing equipment. Duplicated discs are available in small runs and there are various printing options that are on offer.

We have found from some customers who have purchased product elsewhere previously, that many suppliers are using substandard quality discs and even using an ink jet printing method on standard discs. In order to avoid smudging and scratches to the print result, it is necessary to either lacquer the discs and dry them in a specially built apparatus to exclude fumes or use watershield discs which are coated and react with the ink to achieve perfect results.

Dischromatics uses Taiyo Yuden Watershield disks when ink jet printing; in fact all variations of discs used by this company are grade A quality from Sony DADC or Taiyo Yuden.

There is further advantage in using Dischromatics for copying CD and DVD as they also provide in-house digital printing and can offer even special CD and DVD packaging products like Digipaks in small runs. Because they have control of every aspect of production, the final costs are cheaper than their competitors and the turnaround time is quicker.

Also available are USB Flash Memory drives and Pen drives which can also be copied with customer data and printed to customer artwork.

For more information or a specific quote, please call 01495 24322, email: sales@dischromatics.co.uk or visit Dischromatics website.

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Dischromatics CD and DVD Duplication

Dischromatics only supply top quality CD, DVD and Blu-ray Duplication and Replication. We do not compromise on quality and we have proven our credentials with accreditation to ISO 9001:2008.


We believe in building long term relationships with our customers and we understand that there may be times when customers require product and services more urgently and always respond positively to their needs.

Our CD Duplication and DVD Duplication production department staff, using our in-house professional duplication equipment are well trained and knowledgeable in procedures and are keen to satisfy our customers. All our duplication machines carry out verification on each individual Duplicated CD and DVD prior to packing and despatch.
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We are aware that other duplication companies supply lesser graded product which could possibly fail with the loss of valuable data. These companies offer CD and DVD copying at a cheaper price in some cases but the cost to their customers will actually be far higher due to failure of the disks.  Dischromatics only uses product from Sony DADC and Taiyo Yuden which comes with guarantees and will not let customers down.

Some CD and DVD Discs are manufactured using less material resulting in a far thinner disk which when offered up to the light allows you to see through the disc. Also the result of this thinner disc could be that the grooves are not as deep so the data copying may not be retained. Certain dyes also under perform in direct sunlight.

We understand how difficult it is in these times to find reputable suppliers on the internet due to the ability of some companies to be able to rate highly on search engines like Google because they have discovered an unconventional way to fool the search engines and finish up higher in the rankings than these more reputable and established organisations. All the more reason for customers to carry out checks, including credit checks to find out if the company is even viable as some are already trading whilst insolvent, and in many case are very small in comparison to claims on their websites, so are unable to maintain a professional service.

Dischromatics established in 1989 is a Sony DADC UK partner who are the largest Manufacturer in the EU of CD, DVD and Blu-ray.