An optical disc is a flat, usually disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the...

In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of...

written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. ISO images contain the binary image of an optical media file...

These are the GameCube Game Disc, Wii Optical Disc, and Wii U Optical Disc. The physical size of a GameCube Game Disc is that of a miniDVD; the Wii...

Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed...

Optical disc authoring, including CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the...

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings...

A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm...

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005...

Optical Disc Archive (ODA) is part of Sony's proprietary PetaSite data archival library system. The Sony PetaSite (Sony CSM-60/100/200 units) was based...

The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed...

'soon'. Current optical data storage media, such as the CD and DVD store data as a series of reflective marks on an internal surface of a disc. In order to...

The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision...

Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware...

Although a number of optical formats have been used over time, the most common examples are optical disks like the compact disc (CD) and DVD. Reading...

Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the...

M-DISC (Millennial Disc) is a write-once optical disc technology introduced in 2009 by Millenniata, Inc. and available as DVD and Blu-ray discs. M-DISC's...

(/ˌsiːdiːˈrɒm/, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers...

The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a discontinued optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia...

Archival Disc (AD) is the name of a discontinued trademark owned by Sony and Panasonic describing an optical disc storage medium designed for long-term...

MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony...

storing digital audio on an optical disc was easily made. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. A year later...

HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete high-density optical disc format for storing data and playback of high-definition...

finalising) an optical disc is the process of writing out support data such as DVD menus, directory data, and the like to an optical disc in order to make...

storage Optical disc Disc (band), an American experimental music band Disk (album), a 1995 EP by Moby Disc harrow, a farm implement Discus throw or disc throw...

audio optical disc is an optical disc that stores sound information such as music or speech. It may specifically refer to: Compact disc (CD), an optical disc...

A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio...

high-definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high-definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to...

Basically, each disc has multiple layers of micro and macro level images. Recorded data can be read with a combination of an optical microscope and a...

load disk images for optical media. A virtual disk writer or virtual burner is a computer program that emulates an actual disc authoring device such...