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Optical disc drive

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 of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from certain discs, while other drives can both read and record. Those drives are called burners or writers…

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Optical disc drive

Nodes202
Edges201
Triples71
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009901
Components1

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Optical disc drive

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related to Appliances and functionality · 18
Optical disc drive → As, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Discs, CD, Disc, DVD, Floppy, MB, Nintendo Switch, Optical, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Sony's, They, UMD, USB, Wii U's, Xbox
related to Drive types · 16
Optical disc drive → As, BD-RE, BD-ROM, Blu-ray, CD, CD-R/-RW, CD-ROM, CDs, Drives, DVD, DVD-RW, DVDs, ROM, RW, Some, TSST TS-LB23
related to history · 10
Optical disc drive → CD, KDDI, Kokusai Denshin Denwa, Laservision, Matsushita, MB, Panasonic, Philips, Sony, The
related to External links · 7
Optical disc drive → CD-RWAn, How CDs Work, HowStuffWorksHow CD Burners Work, HowStuffWorksUnderstanding CD-R, MB, TAR Bzip2, ZIP
is a · 1
Optical disc drive → optical path

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drives disc optical drive discs data media laser dvd cd blu-ray used read speed speeds also recording cd-rom first use

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Optical disc driveis aoptical path0.90text
game consolesinstance ofbeing mainly limited to media devices0.80text
disc media playersinstance ofbeing mainly limited to media devices0.80text
CD playersinstance ofrequiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.Appliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text
DVD playersinstance ofrequiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.Appliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text
Blu-ray Disc playersinstance ofrequiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.Appliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text
DVD recordersinstance ofrequiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.Appliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text
and video game consolesinstance ofrequiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.Appliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text
multi-layer Blu-ray Discs existinstance ofhigher-capacity formats0.80text
observing the writing speedsinstance ofwhich allows for testing0.80text
patternsinstance ofwhich allows for testing0.80text
CD playersinstance ofAppliances and functionalityOptical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances0.80text

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