Meanings of optical disc in English

Storage capacity is the key difference between a Blu-ray optical disc and a DVD.

The Finder provides no less than three different methods for burning data to an optical disc.

Then there's the ongoing war between the two competing high-def optical disc formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD.

HT2543, "About optical disc drive burning and write speeds"

But there's one area where a big optical disc is still useful: backing up large chunks of data.

Conversely, if you simply want to burn general-purpose data files onto an optical disc, the Finder is your tool.

The first method enables you to quickly select and burn specific items in the Finder to an optical disc.

Sony used this optical disc as a template, and four years later released the very first commercial compact disc player.

Presumably the prices have dropped below that of the CD, because I wasn't given a single optical disc this year.

But DataPlay hopes to fare better with a coin-sized optical disc that's about to descend upon record and computer stores.

Creating an optical disc joint venture with another company was one of the main restructuring measures that loss-making Pioneer unveiled in February.

The new joint venture, which aims to start operations in October, will develop, produce and sell optical disc drives, recorders and players.

Pioneer is showing a 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray read only optical disc at an ongoing fair in Taipei.

Universal Music Group is the latest company to get behind the Blu-ray optical disc, announcing its support for Sony's next-generation media format this week.

Emerging on the market in September 1992, the MiniDisc was a magneto- optical disc-based data device offering 74 minutes of storage.

The delay happened because the production of blue laser diodes, a key component of the games console's Blu-ray optical disc drive, had fallen behind schedule.