Mastodawn

Ok optical drive fans, maybe you can help me. Over the years I’ve found some older optical drives, be it CD, DVD and now BRD, where they won’t want to open unless you help with with something like a paperclip in the little hole. But then with a disc inside it opens and closes perfectly everything time. I’ve already cleaned the pulleys and replaced the belt and that didn’t fix it. I’ve looked online and not been able to find a solution. Anyone know what causes this? #opticaldisc #retrocomputing

Alper Mar 11

Worst case of #bitRot that I have seen for a while now on a #DVD. I was cursing the drive while it made funny noises. Truth revealed itself when I decided to wipe the disks.

#archival #physicalmedia #opticaldisc

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𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓯 𝓓𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓽 Jan 19

@gnuplusmatt

Would be wonderful, if we were able to do the same with videos on DVD, or Blueray.

#TIL #KDE #audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

GNU/Matt

Jan 18

#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

Mai

Jul 25, 2024

It's so sad that Dataplay Discs never took off and are nowadays are very very rare thing to even find information about. It would be such a nice storage medium for my hobby game console I have plans sitting around somewhere.

#hardware #lostmedia #losttechnology #technology #opticaldisc #dataplay #resurrectdataplayplease

DataPlay - Wikipedia

Lowyat.NET Jul 2, 2024

Sony To Gradually Cease Recordable Optical Disc Production #cessation #hardware #japan #opticaldisc #production #sony

https://www.lowyat.net/2024/325699/sony-cease-recordable-disc-production/

Liminal Fiction Apr 11, 2024

WRITER FUEL: A new 'petabit-scale' optical disc under development can store as much information as 15,000 DVDs.

https://www.limfic.com/2024/04/11/writer-fuel-new-optical-disc-can-hold-15000-dvds-worth-of-information/

#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #Computers #Memory #Storage #OpticalDisc #Petabit

Writer Fuel: New Optical Disc Can Hold 15,000 DVDs Worth of Information

Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 DVDs. Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs, are durable and inexpensive. A standard single-layer Blu-ray disc can store 25 gigabytes. By...

Liminal Fiction

Techy Geek

Mar 11, 2024

Exciting tech news! Scientists have developed a petabit-scale optical disc capable of storing 125 terabytes of data, equivalent to 15,000 DVDs. 📀💾 This innovation could revolutionize data storage, offering denser capacity than traditional methods.

#OpticalDisc
#DataStorage
#TechInnovation

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/new-petabit-scale-optical-disc-can-store-as-much-information-as-15000-dvds