Step away from your favourite streaming service, push the cumbersome and costly vinyl revival to one side, and forget your ...

A developer has dusted off an ancient software project for burning visual artwork onto the surface of a standard Compact Disc.

Type segmentation includes CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-ray discs, and their rewritable variants. Each type caters to different storage capacity requirements and user preferences. Application-wise, recordable ...

Abstract: A half-height-size 90 mm optical disk drive (ODD), including an embedded optical disk controller, was developed. Several advanced features, such as high-speed seek, compatibility for optical ...

When you factory... Finally, there is the CD-RW or Compact Disc Rewritable. When you buy a CD-RW, it typically comes empty. You add your data to it. However, unlike the two other types of CDs ...

If your answer is around 14,000 or fewer, you may soon only need one optical disc to store them. The team’s findings have been published in the journal Nature. The secret to the new disc’s ...

Abstract: This paper presents a rewritable optical disk with a capacity of 30 GB/side intended for the next generation of rewritable optical disks. The experimental results have shown that this ...

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just ... figures This ODD supports over 20 different disc formats from CD-RW to BD-R QL, which means you should be able to play any CD, DVD ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now.