David Gregg first envisioned the optical disk in 1958 and patented it in 1969 - also called Laser Disk.
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Although research into optical data storage has been ongoing for many decades, the first popular system was the Compact Disc, introduced in 1982, adapted to data storage (the CD-ROM format) with the 1...
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DVD , also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc , is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. DVDs are of ...
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I began my work on write-once-read-many (WORM) optical disk technology on my first job out of graduate school in 1979. I had joined 3M's Central Research Laboratories to develop a digital audio system that could demonstrate the efficacy of the WORM optical disk media and recording technology that 3M was pursuing.
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Since last week marked the one year anniversary of commercial Blu-ray in the U.S., I thought it was time for a trip down memory lane to look back on the history of optical discs.  Blu-ray didn't just appear out of the blue (or Blu).  It took nearly 50 years since the earliest trials to get where we are today.
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Article date: July 1, 2003 ... The arrival of DAT 72 technology has given a mid-life boost to the 4mm Digital Data Storage (DDS) format with an affordable tape drive solution that offers a convenient, backward- compatible upgrade path to high-capacity backup for ... The emergence of DAT 72 is good news for a technology ...
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The history of optical storage, from laserdiscs to third-generation optical disks. ... According to Wikipedia, a fellow by the name of David Paul Gregg developed an analog optical disk for recording video and had it patented in 1961 and 1969. The patent was acquired by the Music Corporation of America (MCA) when the...
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Seeing as cellphones are usually connected to mobile networks, we'd think the problem of content distribution would basically solve itself, but a company called Vmedia Research is at Mobile World Congress with a new type of optical disk designed just for phones.
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Buffalo's Optical Disk Drive does the double with BLU-RAY and HD DVD support ; 26/03/2008 ... London, UK, 26 March – Buffalo Technology has today announced the availability of its first external optical disk drive. Aimed at tech-savvy consumers, the Blu-ray & HD DVD Combo Drive [BRHC-6316U2] can both read/write Blu-ray...
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In computing and optical recording, an optical disc (CD[citation needed]) or optical disk (WORM[citation needed]) is a flat, usually circular, disc which can contain audio, video or data encoded in microscopic pits (or bumps) on a special material (often aluminium[citation needed]) on ... History of optical storage media...
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