Essays Tagged: "Optical disc"

Inventor of the Compact Disc

e Bettelle Memorial Institute as the senior scientist. That is were he designed and built the first optical data storage system. This invention was created because Russell was unsatisfied with the qua ...

(1 pages) 21 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

How A Audio Cd Works

stored on a single compact disc, it would be over 4 miles long. All compact discs and other optical disc players read from the inside of the CD out, just the opposite of a vinyl record. The in ... 960's by James T. Russell. After years of work, Russell succeeded in inventing the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, which he patented in 1970. He had found a way to record onto ...

(2 pages) 47 3 3.2 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading cons ... ard-definition TV. There are also dual-layer versions of the discs that can hold 50GB.While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM use a red laser to r ... Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup and allow playback of CDs and DVDs. The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) ...

(8 pages) 71 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

HR toles and responsibilities: Technicolor Home Entertainment Services.

in the workplace, e-business, and ethics.Technicolor Home Entertainment Services is a leader in the optical disc manufacturing industry. Technicolor operates four business units with worldwide facilit ... ly motivated, they learn, develop their abilities, and care about customers". (Noe et al, 2004) The optical disc manufacturing industry has become one of the leaders not only in technology and busines ...

(3 pages) 92 2 4.9 Sep/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

In depth study of the DVD technology.

IntroductionDVD or Digital Versatile Disc is an optical disc storage media format, which can be used for Data storage, high quality video and audio. ... given way for the development of DVD technology. Furthermore, in the early 1990s, two high-density optical media storage formats were being developed and researched in order to find the successor to ...

(4 pages) 33 0 0.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Information Systems case study

ndary storage medium in which data are stored using magnetized spots on a hard or floppy disk• optical disk- Use laser technology to store high densities of data on such things as CDs and DVDs. A ... e laser technology to store high densities of data on such things as CDs and DVDs. Advantages of an optical disc is that it runs a lot faster than an optical disc and can store a lot more information. ...

(2 pages) 73 0 0.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

How to Manual Unit 5

o enable the user to write or read the disk. WORM disks function the same as CD-R disks.2. Erasable optical (EO) disk. The user can write to, read from, and erase from EO disks as often as they can ma ... e also called digital video disks, but do not necessarily include video. DVD disks are new types of optical disks with more storage capacity than CD-ROMs. Common types of DVDs include:1.DVD video. The ...

(5 pages) 1099 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Project Technical Feasibility Analysis

asibility1. What is Blu-ray Disc?* value="1"The Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation optical disc format for storing a large amount of data using a short wavelength blue laser to read a ... rosoftRicohRitekAcerAdvantages of HD-DVD, Since it's a more established optical disc technology, it arrived earlier and was probably cheaper to implement, but for various r ...

(8 pages) 21 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering