Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement
If you're the sort of person that can't bear to let go of that DVD collection taking up far too much room under your TV, it ...
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phase change disc
A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic ... In rewritable phase change media, the heat from a short, high-intensity laser pulse turns a bit in the recording layer into an ...
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Forget about Blu-ray, Fluo-ray discs may well be the future of optical data storage with 10TB capacities for $1
New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for ... within the recording medium, using laser energy to create "spectral holes" where ...
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How One Company Cracked The GameCube Disc Protection
On (nearly) every DVD, and almost every GameCube disc, there’s a ‘barcode’ of sorts on the inside of the optical tracks ... can only be cut with a YAG laser that’s significantly more ...
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Laser-diode developments, dual-layer disk manufacture, and more
After UV curing, the disk is positioned directly under ... for integration into test equipment for blue-laser-based disks. The test drive's optical, mechanical and electronic specifications ...
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External backing stores - optical discs
CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and read from the discs using a laser.
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A new dimension
In two-photon 3D optical data storage, writing is performed by short laser pulses at a wavelength ... However, using a cube instead of a disk as the recording medium might successfully accommodate ...