Baltic Optical Disc

Lithuanian manufacturer of optical discs, based in Vilnius. Founded in 1998 as [L=Garsų Studija], started making CD's in 1999. Renamed to "Baltic Optical Disc" in 2000. Baltic Optical Disc logo or name or 'BOD' appears on the mirror band of the matrix area with a code yy-mm/aaaaa-bbbb where yy-mm is year-month of manufacturing and aaaaa-bbbb is a commercial identifier (aaaaa = client number or order number, bbbb= order number or CD number in the order). Please credit in LCCN as: Pressed By – Baltic Optical Disc without any catalog #, neither yy-mm/aaaaa-bbbb nor aaaaa-bbbb are sequential. Some releases have only the code yy-mm/aaaaa-bbbb in runout without any company mention. Made By – BOD Group can be added in LCCN in this case. And only for releases manufactured between 2000 and 2006 or after 2013 (yy=00 to 06 or yy>13), Pressed By – Baltic Optical Disc can be added in LCCN. In first half of 2000s, GS/BOD didn't have own glass mastering and used to outsource it. If there is mastering SID code IFPI LD01 present, Glass Mastered At - Gramofonové Závody can be added to LCCN (without any cat#). [this factory later changed name to GZ Digital Media, but outsourcing from this particular plant was only done until sometime in 2000] If there is mastering SID code IFPI LK96 to LK99 present, Glass Mastered At – TAKT can be added to LCCN (without any cat#). From sometime on in 2000s, BOD also started making own glass masters. These don't have any SID code whatsoever. See also [L=BOD Group] and www.bod.lt Note: 'BOD' appears also on runouts of (usually) German releases without the characteristic yy-mm/aaaaa-bbbb, those releases are not manufactured by Baltic Optical Disc but by German BOD Berlin Optical Disc. As confirmed by extensive research and comparison, all Garsų Studija and later Baltic Optical Disc pressings pressed until 2001-09 have pressing ring on hub of exactly 25 mm width, located on bottom (playing side). Discs that have matrixes preceding that date but don't have mentioned pressing ring are pressed later from the old (stored) glass masters.