acomputerdiscthat isreadby alaser(= anarrowbeamoflight). It canstoresound,video, orcomputerdataandprograms:Thesystemisintendedfor use with nextgenerationopticaldiscs, such as Blu-ray and HD-DVDs.CompareCDDVD(Definition ofoptical discfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoptical disc
optical discThe company works withopticaldiscand display technology and software products and is also a manufacturer.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hard disk drives, floppy disk drives andopticaldiscdrives serve as both input and output devices.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The savings in size and weight are usually achieved partly by omitting ports or having removable media oropticaldiscdrives.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The reverse side of anopticaldiscusually has a printed label, sometimes made of paper but often printed or stamped onto the disc itself.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are manyopticaldiscauthoring technologies for optimizing the authoring process and preventing errors.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other media that are used are magnetic tape,opticaldisc, and flash memory.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The data were originally stored on 38,000 nine track magnetic tapes, and later migrated toopticaldisc.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Readers were introduced to technological innovations of the day, such asopticaldiscrecording technology, which was new at the time.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the same year, two newopticaldiscstorage formats were being developed.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lacquer protecting the edge of anopticaldisccan usually be seen without magnification.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/optical-disc##
