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    In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once. Disc-At-Once (DAO) for CD-R...
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    Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware...
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    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...
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    In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part...
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    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...
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    GameCube Game Disc, Wii Optical Disc, and Wii U Optical Disc. The physical size of a GameCube Game Disc is that of a miniDVD; Wii Optical Discs are based...
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    (/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...
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    '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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • The history of optical recording can be divided into a few number of distinct major contributions. The pioneers of optical recording worked mostly independently...
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    Archival Disc (AD) is the trademarked name of a discontinued optical disc storage medium designed by Sony and Panasonic for long-term digital storage....
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    DVD (redirect from Dual-layer recording)
    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...
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    replace the Magneto-optical disc format. An Ultra Density Optical disc, or UDO, is a 133.35 mm (5.25") ISO cartridge optical disc which can store up to...
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    DVD recordable (redirect from DVD-RW disc)
    collection of optical disc formats that can be written to by a DVD recorder and by computers using a DVD writer. The "recordable" discs are write-once...
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    On an optical disc, a track (CD) or title (DVD) is a subdivision of its content. Specifically, it is a consecutive set of sectors (called "timecode frames"...
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    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. It uses...
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    that made audio recordings using a Betamax video recorder. After this, in 1974 the leap to storing digital audio on an optical disc was easily made....
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    Blu-ray Disc Recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray Disc Recordable Erasable (BD-RE) refer to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be...
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    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...
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    CD-RW (Compact Disc-Rewritable) is a digital optical disc storage format introduced by Ricoh in 1997. A CD-RW compact disc (CD-RWs) can be written, read...
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    SCSI Multimedia Commands (category Compact disc)
    December 1997 by ANSI. Mount Rainier (MRW) Layer Jump Recording (LJR) Optical disc recording modes Small Form Factor committee (SFF) http://www.13thmonkey...
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    Disk storage (redirect from Disc storage)
    removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical disc media. (The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except...
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    Jump Recording (LJR) is a writing method used for DVD-R DL (Dual Layer). LJR permits recording the disc per increments called session (see Optical disc authoring)...
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    Constant linear velocity (category Rotating disc computer storage media)
    In optical storage, constant linear velocity (CLV) is a qualifier for the rated speed of an optical disc drive, and may also be applied to the writing...
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    Volumetric Optical Disc (or SVOD) is an optical disc format developed by Hitachi Maxell, which uses an array of wafer-thin optical discs to allow data...
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    The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision...
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    Blu-ray (redirect from Blu-Ray disc)
    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...
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    The high-definition optical disc format war was a market competition between the Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc standards for storing high-definition...
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  • database access on Microsoft Windows systems Disk-at-Once, an optical disc recording mode Decentralized autonomous organization, an organization that is...
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