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    Nintendo optical discs are physical media used to distribute video games on three of Nintendo's consoles that followed the Nintendo 64. These are the...
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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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    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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    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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    ("burned") onto an optical disc (typically a compact disc or DVD). To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full...
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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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    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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    '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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    The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a discontinued optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia...
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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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