From there, Del Castillo's team decided to free up even more space by stacking the Xbox One X's hard disc drive and optical disc drive on top of one another.
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It's much, much faster than a traditional hard disc drive.
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So, how are you supposed to play games without a disc drive?
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The traditional Xbox One S with a disc drive is $22.99 per month.
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Sony has similarly pledged that the PlayStation 5 will retain an optical disc drive.
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It's a far better deal than Microsoft's new model that doesn't have a disc drive.
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Microsoft is reportedly launching a new Xbox One S without a disc drive next month.
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But owners have claimed that the console's optical disc drive cannot withstand even small vibrations.
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Still have CDs you want to transfer but no CD player or computer disc drive?
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Its sibling, the all-digital edition lacks a physical disc drive but it's surprisingly cheap.
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Including a disc drive on the hybrid home/mobile console would completely kill its mobile capabilities.
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Her father, an electrical engineer, retired from IBM's tape and disc drive storage division in Tucson.
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Some of its features include a disc drive, HDMI, USB 3.1, USB 2.0, and USB-C ports.
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Lockhart reportedly doesn&apost have a disc drive, and would emphasize Microsoft&aposs digital Xbox subscription services.
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Xbox games are all available digitally through the Microsoft Store, making the disc-drive optional for gaming.
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The grunting of the disc drive is replaced by the eerie, squeaky sound of metal bit on bone.
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The new console is identical to the regular Xbox One S except it doesn't have a disc drive.
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The Xbox One S with 1TB of internal storage (and a disc drive) currently costs $207.80 at Walmart.
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This may not matter much to some, but that disc drive is compatible with UHD Blu-ray discs.
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Then, select a Blu-ray or DVD disc and place it in your Xbox One disc drive. 2.
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The external disc drive plugs directly into your USB port so you can access your CDs and DVDs again.
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They're in the hard disc drive in your laptop and the headphones you wear on the way to work.
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Up front are four USB 3.0 ports, a disc drive bay and a dimmer for the optional LED lighting.
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Removing the disc-drive lowers the final cost, and essentially guarantees long-term business for Microsoft&aposs online store.
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Walmart is offering a great deal on the original Xbox One S console that has a disc drive built in.
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It looked absolutely nothing like the original Wii, with a red-and-black body and a top-loading disc drive.
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Microsoft is also planning to keep the optical disc drive, and support four generations of Xbox games through backward compatibility.
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You can also get discounts on other tech like Bluetooth speakers, a multigroom razor set, and an external disc drive.
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The disc drive had to go, as did the original voltage regulators and video encoder, replaced with custom-built components.
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Earlier this year Microsoft launched the $250 Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, which removes the console&aposs disc-drive.
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If you still have a Windows machine with a disc drive, installing and running the games in Compatibility Mode sometimes works.
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As a result of the lack of disc drive, the console is slightly cheaper than the standard Xbox One S console.
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The console may not have a disc drive, but it&aposs just as capable as the standard Xbox One S console.
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Microsoft is reportedly working on two new Xbox consoles for 2020, and one of them won&apost have a disc drive.
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Both MacBooks dropped the optical disc drive, although Apple still continues to sell the 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro with it.
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Usually, these monster-sized laptops still come with an optical disc drive, but you won't find one on the Inspiron 17 7000.
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In the fiscal fourth quarter Microsoft acquired Express Logic, announced Azure updates and introduced an Xbox console that has no disc drive.
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Of course, Apple has often been correct in its decisions to leave beyond tired technology (see optical disc drive and flash support).
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However, since there aren't any discs that would fit in a drive that small, Madmorda's mini Gamecube understandably doesn't feature a working disc drive.
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The standard MacBook Pro is the only computer that Apple sells that still has a DVD drive or optical disc drive of any sort.
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That's largely due to the use of a solid state drive — an "SSD" — that runs much faster than a traditional hard disc drive (HDD).
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Microsoft is about to launch an even cheaper Xbox One S. In order to cut costs, the company is removing the Blu-ray disc drive altogether.
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It was much smaller than other PSP models, with buttons hidden behind a sliding mechanism, and most controversially of all didn't feature a UMD disc drive.
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The system has both a disc drive and a cartridge slot, and the prototype in the video could only play SNES cartridge games when it first arrived.
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After you insert the disc into your console&aposs disc drive, the installed Blu-ray player app should automatically appear and start to play the disc. 3.
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Microsoft is working on a new Xbox One console for 2019 and it's not going to have a disc drive, according to a report from tech blogger Paul Thurrott.
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If you're on vacation, and you want to play "Spider-Man" when "Horizon Zero Dawn" is what you left in the PS4 disc drive, well, you're out of luck.
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This is far less than its usual $299 price, and it's almost $50 cheaper than Microsoft's new Xbox One S All-Digital model that omits a Blu-ray disc drive.
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The button that would have opened the disc drive on the actual PlayStation is functional on the Classic as well; you use it to change discs during multi-disc games.
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And here's a closer look at the bottom of the front, which features the Blu-ray disc drive, a USB port, and a button for pairing devices with the console.
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While Project Scarlett is the next-generation Xbox, it's clearly rooted in the platform advancements that Microsoft made with the Xbox One, and it will even include an optical disc drive.
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Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its first gaming console without a disc drive, meaning that gamers will have to download games instead of loading them on a disc in the traditional way.
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It'll cost $250 — that's $50 less than the model that comes with a disc drive — and will arrive bundled with three entire games: Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3, and Minecraft.
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For me, these videos recall the feeling of bringing a new game home in the late 90s, jamming it in my PlayStation's disc drive and being amazed by the 3D visuals.
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I'd like to convert them all to MP3 files, but my laptop doesn't have a disc drive and its hard drive is too small to hold several gigabytes of audio files.
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Among the modules that will be offered are an optical disc drive (retro, yet cool), speakers, and a VESA Plate if you want to lock the system in place on your desktop.
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With the obvious lack of disc drive, the system looks more or less identical to the standard One S. As for pricing, we expect it to be more affordable than its predecessor.
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Microsoft takes that concept further with the new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, which cuts the disc drive entirely, meaning you have to rely on downloads and streaming to play games.
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The $53 Xbox One X is the most powerful console on the market, while the $250 Xbox One S All-Digital Edition offers the lowest entry level price, but no disc drive.
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Several console bundles is available for $249.99, which is still a great deal, especially if you're after one of the Xbox One S models that has a 249.99K Blu-ray disc drive.
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Perhaps the most famous part of "Vib-Ribbon" is that you could put your music CDs into the console's disc drive and the game would automatically create levels based on those songs.
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Microsoft just announced an Xbox without a disc drive, for instance, and if its owners can only purchase games through one digital store, they could claim Microsoft is running an unfair monopoly. Definitely.
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"As I said to someone the other day, that running a disc drive company is a little bit like driving in stop and go traffic," Luzco said in the conference call transcribed by FactSet.
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That plan is still in the works, and is a part of the vision for the next generation of Xbox — but so is a physical disc drive and a digital storage system as well.
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It doesn't support Blu-ray, of course — see: the whole "no disc drive" thing — but with 4K Ultra HD video with premium Dolby Atmos audio, you'll still be able to get your TV fix.
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Unlike the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, Xbox One X sports a physical disc drive that makes it more ideal for seasoned Xbox owners who have already amassed a collection of games on disc.
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The Xbox console owners filed a proposed class action against Microsoft in federal court in 2011, saying the design of the console was defective and that its optical disc drive could not withstand even small vibrations.
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Along with the aforementioned Ethernet port and disc drive, it's got a built-in Thunderbolt port and two USB 3 ports on its flanks that you can connect to external displays, as well as a headphone jack.
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It's introducing a new computer called the Elite Slice, which is a crazy and excellent name, and which lets you snap on additional components to add new features to the PC, like speakers or a disc drive.
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With Microsoft possibly gearing up to promote hard-to-believe products like an Xbox One that doesn't have a disc drive, the company might need to stay on the side of truth as much as possible this year.
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But signs of some price recovery for DRAM chips starting last month and Samsung's dominance in the premium solid-state disc drive market with its 3D NAND chip production technology suggest a pickup in coming months, analysts said.
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When you've had your fill of gaming, you can use the Xbox One X as a 4K media player — and the presence of that disc drive means it can support all the movies you've got on Blu-ray.
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It launched this past May with a suggested retail price of $249.99 — $50 cheaper than the version with a disc drive — but you can order it today as part of a three-game bundle for just over $200.
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It's not just phones that you can save on, Microsoft's Xbox One consoles are cheaper than usual this week, discounting both its powerful, 4K-ready Xbox One X and the disc drive-less Xbox One S All-Digital console.
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Whether you insert an old game into your Xbox One's disc drive or buy a digital copy online, the title gets added to your list of games and becomes associated with your account just like any new release would be.
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Or not, as she enters a room with a fish tank (complete with fish), disc drive, and an ancient PC. Things get stranger still when a young blonde girl who looks strikingly like Angela enters and begins asking her questions.
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Digital access to video games through streaming and downloads is the future, and Microsoft leaned into that hard with the new Xbox One S All-Digital, essentially a version of the console with 1TB of storage and no disc drive.
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It's a veritable antique at seven years old, but it remains a solid option as far as personal computers go due to the fact that it's the last Apple laptop ever to be sold with a disc drive and an Ethernet port.
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The Wired interview also confirms that the PS5 will use standard 100GB Blu-ray discs — Sony had previously confirmed that the console will offer a disc drive — but all games will have to be installed to the internal SSD this time around.
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Titles like Firewatch and Gone Home take a fraction of the cost, time, and team size to develop, and their short stories are likely to stick in the player's brain longer than the latest open-world RPG sticks in their console's disc drive.
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Western Digital – Western Digital forecast current quarter revenue below analyst estimates, although the hard disc drive and memory chip maker did beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines for its latest quarter on strong memory chip demand and higher prices.
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In many respects, the front of the Xbox Series X is a minimalist interpretation of the front of the Xbox One X. It has a disc-drive slot, a single USB port, a button for pairing wireless peripherals, and the Xbox power button.
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The presence of what looks to be a disc drive means disc-based games aren't going anywhere with the Xbox Series X (which shouldn't be confused with the Xbox One X). It also looks the widely loved Xbox controller design isn't changing much.
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Game Pass makes a strong argument for going all-digital on Xbox One, but because this model comes with a disc drive, you won't be limited to discounts on digital titles, which are usually worse and occur less frequently than sales on game discs.
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However, the disc drive won't read two of the requested destinations, responding instead with monochromatic static and a sound I can only assume is the death's-door spirit of the Mega-CD itself screaming for release, to be finally put out of its misery.
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Gamers can now pre-order Microsoft's Xbox One S All-Digital Edition for $249.99, or $50 less than the Xbox One S that contains a disc drive, and the new system will become available through retail channels on May 7, according to a Microsoft blog post.
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The company's trademark rental kiosks have been a handy way to rent physical copies of movies (if you still have a disc drive to use to play them, that is), and they have been one of the few remaining places to rent physical copies of video games.
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Yes, the 13-inch MacBook Pro from June 2012, which made up for its lack of Retina display with an optical disc drive and an extra pound or so in weight, has finally been killed after inexplicably remaining on sale at $1,099 for years without a spec bump.
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The presentation mostly confirmed much of the details we already knew about the hardware, like its new CPU and GPU, backwards compatibility, 8K support, and the fact that the console will not abandon a disc drive like the discless Xbox One S. We also know that Sony will use a custom solid-state drive that's said speed up load times dramatically.
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IBM Floppy Disc Drive (voiced by Richard McGonagle) is one of the Guardians of Obsolete Formats whose head resembles an IBM floppy disc drive. He is killed by DVD.
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In the disc drive industry, capacitive displacement sensors are used to measure the runout (a measure of how much the axis of rotation deviates from an ideal fixed line) of disc drive spindles. By knowing the exact runout of these spindles, disc drive manufacturers are able to determine the maximum amount of data that can be placed onto the drives. Capacitive sensors are also used to ensure that disc drive platters are orthogonal to the spindle before data is written to them.
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The PlayStation 3 disc drive is an all-in-one type allowing the use of different formats.
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Transfer rate was 156K bytes/second. Disc Drive Model 4425 provided 3781 data bytes per track, maximum disc capacity was 7,378,000 bytes.English Electric Computers, Hardware reference manual: Peripherals Vol 1, 1967.
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The G-Link software runs off of the vehicle's hard disc drive navigation system and song library, and includes traffic updates, HelpNet compatibility, and the G-Security service. The G-Security service includes cellphone notification of vehicle lock and position status. A G-Sound music distribution service offers samples and downloading to the vehicle's hard disc drive of MP3s from different genres. A U.S. equivalent of the G-Link system with similar but not identical functionality, called Lexus Enform with Safety Connect, was launched in 2009.
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5,732,464 (method of informing users how to configure disc drive by putting label on shield), which is claimed to provide a functional relationship between the printed information and the metal shield on which it is imprinted.
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A CD-RW/DVD-ROM computer drive Apple USB SuperDrive A removable internal Lenovo UltraBay slim type disc drive The CD/DVD drive lens on an Acer laptop Lenses from a Blu-ray writer in a Sony Vaio E series laptop 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, but recent drives can both read and record, also called burners or writers (since they physically burn the organic dye on write-once CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R LTH discs). Compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs are common types of optical media which can be read and recorded by such drives.
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Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware to the control electronics of the optical disc drive. This article discusses some of the more important technologies.
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A virtual burner, by definition, appears as a disc drive in the system with writing capabilities (as opposed to conventional disc authoring programs that can create virtual disk images), thus allowing software that can burn discs to create virtual discs.
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Nye Lubricants, Inc. is a manufacturer of industrial lubricants. It formulates, manufactures, and sells synthetic lubricants, thermal coupling compounds, index-matching optical gels and fluids. Nye supplies the automotive, computer printer, disc drive, mobile appliance, aerospace, defense and HB-LED OEM markets.
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825-830, Dec., 1968. A prototype PRML channel was implemented earlier at 20 Mbit/s on a prototype 8-inch HDDR. Wood, S. Ahlgrim, K. Hallamasek, R. Stenerson, "An Experimental Eight-inch Disc Drive with One-hundred Megabytes Per Surface", IEEE Trans. Mag.
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Conceptual design of a basic traveling-nut linear actuator. Note that in this example the lead screw (gray) rotates while the lead nut (yellow) and tube (red) do not. DVD drive with leadscrew and stepper motor. Floppy disc drive with leadscrew and stepper motor.
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Kanotix, also referred to as KANOTIX, is an operating system based on Debian, with advanced hardware detection.Kanotix IntroductionThorhammer Beta-Review on tuxmachines.org, July 2007 (author: eco2geek) It can run from an optical disc drive or other media i.e. USB-stick without using a hard disk drive.
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Pluggy Love, in the 2008 Beano Annual Although Plug received plastic surgery for the Bash Street Academy makeover, he soon returned to his familiar appearance. When he sees his friends brainwashed into behaving, he saves them by installing a virus on the robot teacher's disc drive.
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These are lower cost versions of the HDC-HS300 and HDC-TM300 respectively. The former has a smaller hard disc drive of 80 Gb, but the viewfinder and accessory shoe have been deleted. The latter does not have any built in memory, viewfinder or accessory shoe.
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Synclavier II and floppy disc drive The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of Jon Appleton, Professor of Digital Electronics, Sydney A. Alonso, and Cameron Jones, a software programmer and student at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.
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Dedicated to information regarding domestic DVD sales, this section had a listing of new releases for that month. Recurring segments include Lip Service (interviews with voice actors), Eastern Egg (extras in Japanese DVDs), Must See (new release recommendation), Free Swag (merchandise sold with discs), and Disc Drive (Japanese releases).
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As with the SR, the S offered an optional Blu-ray Disc drive. Unlike the SR, the new VAIO S Series had a mini-PCI slot that allowed for an optional internal WWAN (mobile broadband) adapter. The keyboard was also redesigned with new backlit chiclet (island-style) keys.
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Three types of screw thread used in leadscrews: 3 & 4: buttress thread 5: round thread 6: square thread DVD drive with leadscrew and stepper motor. Floppy disc drive with leadscrew and stepper motor. A leadscrew (or lead screw), also known as a power screw. or translation screw,Bhandari, p. 202.
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Each episode starts with Benjamin introducing each character known as the "Bopkins". They could be seen making their beds before heading over to a personal computer. One of the characters would then put a compact disc into the disc drive. They would then take it in turns to choose an icon.
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Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation (abbreviated TSST) was an international joint venture company of Toshiba (Japan) and Samsung Electronics (South Korea). Toshiba used to own 51% of its stock, while Samsung used to own the remaining 49%. The company specialised in optical disc drive manufacturing. The company was established in 2004.
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However, such hybrid discs do remain in a commercial setting as a digital rights management enforcement technique, where encrypted compressed copies of the digital audio are provided with proprietary software for listening in a computer disc drive, while the CD-DA is included for playback in stand-alone CD players.
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It has also been held that the sale of the motor, in such a case, does not exhaust the patent on the disc drive containing the new motor. Hence, a purchaser of the motor who incorporated it into a disk drive would infringe the disk drive patent.See Minebea Co. v. Papst, 444 F. Supp.
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The ST BOOK is a portable computer released in 1991 by Atari. It was based on the Atari STE. The ST BOOK was vastly more portable than the previous Atari portable, the STacy, but it sacrificed several features in order to achieve this: notably the backlight, and internal floppy disc drive. The screen is highly reflective.
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In United States patent law, an exhausted- combination claim comprises a claim (usually a machine claim) in which a novel device is combined with conventional elements in a conventional manner. An example would be a claim to a conventional disc drive with a novel motor,Minebea Co. v. Papst, 444 F. Supp. 2d 68 (D.D.C. 2006).
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Windows DVD Player was made available for Windows 10 on desktop computers to provide DVD playback functionality. When launched, it searches for movie files in the disc drive. It can also be picked as an option in the AutoPlay dialog when a disc is inserted. However, if the disc is switched, the app needs to restart.
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Close-up image of a PolyStation with a cartridge inserted (Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū) PolyStation is the name given to many Nintendo Entertainment System hardware clones that closely resembles a Sony PlayStation, particularly the PSone variant. The cartridge slot of these systems is located under the lid which, on an original PlayStation, covers the disc drive.
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The enclosure houses the computer's vital functions, including a low-profile, slot-loading optical disc drive. The Cube requires a separate monitor with either an ADC or a VGA connection. The machine has no fan to move air, and thus heat, through the case. Instead, it is passively cooled, with heat dissipated via a grille at the top of the case.
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HP 7935 HP-IB Interface The 7935H had a HP-IB interface mounted in the rear. The drive's front panel had a key pad for running internal disc drive diagnostics, a LED character display, a load and unload button, and a lid opening button. The 7935G was a bundled package of three 7935H units at a reduced cost of $74,000.
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However, new optical disc drives are still (as of 2020) available for purchase. Notable optical disc drive OEMs include Hitachi, LG Electronics (merged into Hitachi-LG Data Storage), Toshiba, Samsung Electronics (merged into Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology), Sony, NEC (merged into Optiarc), Lite-On, Philips (merged into Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions), Pioneer Corporation, Plextor, Panasonic, Yamaha Corporation and Kenwood.
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The brand name Plextor was used for all products manufactured by the Electronic Equipment Division and Printing Equipment Division of the Japanese company Plextor Inc., which was and is a 100%-owned subsidiary company of Shinano Kenshi Corp., also a Japanese company. The brand was formerly known as TEXEL, under which name it introduced its first CD-ROM optical disc drive in 1989.
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In general, the term RAM refers solely to solid-state memory devices (either DRAM or SRAM), and more specifically the main memory in most computers. In optical storage, the term DVD-RAM is somewhat of a misnomer since, unlike CD-RW or DVD-RW it does not need to be erased before reuse. Nevertheless, a DVD-RAM behaves much like a hard disc drive if somewhat slower.
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Back of the slim model, showing its built in networkingThe slim model of the PlayStation 2 received positive reviews, especially for its incredibly small size and built-in networking. The slim console's requirement for a separate power adapter was often criticized while the top-loading disc drive was often noted as being far less likely to break compared to the tray-loading drive of the original model.
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On April 16, 2019, Microsoft unveiled an "all-digital" configuration of the Xbox One S named Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, which excludes the Blu-ray Disc drive. It is a 1 TB model sold at a price of US$249, and is pre-loaded with Forza Horizon 3, Minecraft, and Sea of Thieves. The console was released on May 7, 2019. The unit was discontinued in July 2020.
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Initially, the primary defining characteristic of netbooks was the lack of an optical disc drive, smaller size, and lower performance than full-size laptops. By mid-2009 netbooks had been offered to users "free of charge", with an extended service contract purchase of a cellular data plan. Ultrabooks and Chromebooks have since filled the gap left by Netbooks. Unlike the generic Netbook name, Ultrabook and Chromebook are technically both specifications by Intel and Google respectively.
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A typical desktop computer consists of a computer case (or "tower"), a metal chassis that holds the power supply, motherboard, hard disk drive, and often an optical disc drive. Most towers have empty space where users can add additional components. External devices such as a computer monitor or visual display unit, keyboard, and a pointing device (mouse) are usually found in a personal computer. The motherboard connects all processor, memory and peripheral devices together.
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The HP campus in Cupertino had 1,682 HP 7935 drives operating at the time of the quake and 97.25 percent were still operational afterwards. Within an hour, only 2 percent were non-operational and only 1.5 percent were non-operational several days later. Later with development and production of smaller, rack mountable, high-density, sealed HP disc drive units using winchester mechanism designs (like the HP 7963), the demand for HP793x drive line declined.
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NetBoot was a technology from Apple which enabled Macs with capable firmware (i.e. New World ROM) to boot from a network, rather than a local hard disk or optical disc drive. NetBoot is a derived work from the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), and is similar in concept to the Preboot Execution Environment. The technology was announced as a part of the original version of Mac OS X Server at Macworld Expo on 5 January 1999.
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Adds support for an optional 3D lens attachment. The hard disc drive in the HDC-HS900 is slightly reduced in size from the HDC-HS700 to 220GB. The inbuilt FLASH memory of the HDC-TM900 is unchanged at 32GB. A 3D adaptor is available for this camcorder, the VW-CLT1 though the 3D effect is rather poor because the distance between the lenses is substantially less than the interocular distance of the eyes.
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Steco is the joint venture established between Samsung Electronics and Japan's Toray Industries in 1995. Stemco is a joint venture established between Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Toray Industries in 1995. Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation (TSST) is a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Toshiba of Japan which specialises in optical disc drive manufacturing. TSST was formed in 2004, and Toshiba owns 51% of its stock, while Samsung owns the remaining 49%.
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In the context of digital audio extraction from compact discs, seek jitter causes extracted audio samples to be doubled-up or skipped entirely if the Compact Disc drive re- seeks. The problem occurs because the Red Book does not require block-accurate addressing during seeking. As a result, the extraction process may restart a few samples early or late, resulting in doubled or omitted samples. These glitches often sound like tiny repeating clicks during playback.
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The console does not have a physical disc drive, and all games must be downloaded. It is $50 cheaper than the Xbox One S at $249 and was made available on May 7, 2019. Microsoft said it ended production of the Xbox One X and all-digital version of the Xbox One S on July 16, 2020, in preparation for production of future hardware; as of July 2020, only the Xbox One S remains in production.
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The HP 7935 was a business computer hard disc drive system manufactured by Hewlett Packard. It was produced by the Disc Memory Division in Boise, Idaho USA beginning in 1982 at a cost of about $27,000. Within the company the drive was known as the "BFD", ostensibly an acronym for "big fixed disc" but the development engineers had used that acronym for "big fucking disc", a term relative to the smaller 7920 series drives introduced earlier by the company.
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Essentially a bookshelf-style case lying on its side, a miniature HTPC replicates the look of other smaller-than-rack-sized home theatre components such as a DVR or mini audio receiver. The front panel interface is emphasized, with the optical disc drive rotated relative to the case in order to maintain horizontal mounting, and more motherboard port connectors (such as for USB) are routed to the front panel, they normally are as powerful as PC desktops.
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In 2012, Sony revealed a new "Super Slim" PlayStation 3. The new console, with a completely redesigned case that has a sliding door covering the disc drive (which has been moved to the top of the console), is 4.3 pounds, almost three pounds lighter than the previous "slim" model. The console comes with either 12GB flash memory or a 250GB, 500GB hard drive. Several bundles which include a Super Slim PS3 and a selection of games are available.
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The NXE also provides many new features. Users can now install games from disc to the hard drive to play them with reduced load time and less disc drive noise, but each game's disc must remain in the system in order to run. A new, built-in Community system allows the creation of digitized Avatars that can be used for multiple activities, such as sharing photos or playing Arcade games like 1 vs. 100. The update was released on November 19, 2008.
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Illustration of the basic componenets of a CD/DVD based immunoassay, which includes the disk (grey), a probe (green), gold nanoparticle (red), analyte (yellow), and silver particle (blue) A compact disk/digital versatile disk (CD/DVD) based immunoassay is a method for determining the concentration of a compound in research and diagnostic laboratories by performing the test on an adapted CD/DVD surface using an adapted optical disc drive; these methods have been discussed and prototyped in research labs since 1991.
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On the GameCube, the Game Boy Player was released in 2003, which could play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. It allowed these games to be played on a full television screen. The GBP attaches to the bottom of the console and a boot disc must be running in the GameCube disc drive in order to operate it. The Game Boy Player functions just like a Game Boy Advance, letterboxing the games' display on a standard television set.
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On August 2, 2016 Microsoft released the Xbox One S, which supports 4K streaming and has an Ultra HD Blu- ray disc drive, but does not support 4K gaming. On November 10, 2016 Sony released the PlayStation 4 Pro, which supports 4K streaming and gaming, though many games use checkerboard rendering or are upscaled 4K. On November 7, 2017, Microsoft released the Xbox One X, which supports of 4K streaming and gaming, though not all games are rendered at native 4K.
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This option writes the operating system to a disk image (ISO) file, which can be loaded into some emulators (such as Bochs, QEMU or more commonly VMware) or written to a CD-ROM and booted on real hardware. This option also allows deploying to a USB mass storage device, such as a USB flash drive, to boot on devices that may not have an optical disc drive. Because networking is not in place yet, debugging is unsupported with this deploy option.
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They abandoned the idea, never realizing they had glimpsed a basic principle which would one day find its application in the tape recorder, the hard disc and floppy disc drive, and other magnetic media. Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of ice. He also anticipated modern concerns with fuel shortages and industrial pollution. Methane gas, he reasoned, could be produced from the waste of farms and factories.
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In dire need of money, Chris tries to return a recently purchased CD player despite it having a pop-tart stuck in the disc drive. He eventually sells the player to a scrapyard, but depressed by his new financial situation, accepts the payment for it in ecstasy. One morning, after further partying when Chris's house is in ruins, Chris finds a squatter asleep in his bathroom. Chris tries to kick him out, but the man protests and eventually claims squatters' rights.
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EST, or Electronic sell-through), or by using a disc to digital service (D2D). Disc to digital services allowed consumers to insert a DVD or Blu-ray into their computer's disc drive, scan it to verify ownership, and then add it to their UltraViolet collection for a fee. Several retailers including Vudu and CinemaNow offered this service. Flixster had been offering a D2D service as well, but it was suspended once Fandango acquired Flixster in early 2016 and another independent movie streaming service, M-GO.
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Valour, also called DiskWorks as well as strategic marketing brands chosen by vendors, grew out of a plan to rewrite the aging Westinghouse Disc Utility (WDU) and target the full range of IBM operating systems. Valour runs as a highly privileged CMS task, designed to accommodate any model disc drive or tape drive. The product incorporated a number of unique concepts and technologies. It was one of the earliest products to use a primitive form of windowing, including dialogue boxes capable of real-time updates.
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An operating system may define volumes or logical disks and assign each to one physical disk, more than one physical disk or part of the storage area of a physical disk. For example, Windows NT can create several partitions on a hard disk drive, each of which a separate volume with its own file system. Each floppy disk drive, optical disc drive or USB flash drive in Windows NT becomes one volume. Windows NT can also create partitions that span multiple hard disks drives.
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The PS4 Pro does not support Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD BD) discs, used for 4K content, as the BD-ROM internal drive does not support the BDXL format (100GB+) required for 4K video, though on preliminary tests the console is able to recognize and play these discs on a 4K capable USB 3.0 external disc drive. The decision not to upgrade was predicated primarily on cost. A limited translucent-case version of the PS4 Pro was released in August 2018, which included minor hardware updates.
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A Wii Mini with Wii Remote The RVL-201 model of the Wii, known as the Wii Mini (stylized as Wii mini), is a smaller, redesigned Wii with a top-loading disc drive. It was announced on November 27, 2012 and released on December 7, 2012 in Canada with a MSRP of C$99.99. The system was later released in Europe on March 22, 2013, and in the United States on November 17, 2013. It was not released in Japan, Australia, or New Zealand.
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In order to make it up to him, she tells him that the only way he can get a new computer is if his breaks. To accomplish this, he accepts all cookies, intentionally opens pop-up ads, and places food in the disc drive. Giving up, Pam then buys Andy a new computer, but they scratch it up to make it not look brand new. When they pretend to argue about it in front of the office, Pam claims that she found it in the warehouse.
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The 6522 was widely used in computers of the 1980s, particularly Commodore's machines,The [Commodore 1541 floppy disc drive has two chips of the type MOS 6522...] and was also a central part of the designs of the Apple III, Oric-1 and Oric Atmos, BBC Micro, Victor 9000/Sirius 1 and Apple Macintosh. Video game platforms such as the Vectrex also used the 6522, as did the 1984 through 1989 Corvette digital dash cluster. A high speed, CMOS version, the W65C22, is produced by the Western Design Center (WDC).
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Hence, to telcos it is not just a media player but allowing interactivity between the service provider and consumers. Units for its first version comes with HDMI input / output, 3 USB port, 1 slot for SD card reader, 1 GB DDR3 memory. Consumers can opt for built in Hard Disc Drive if they purchase online. On January 31, 2012, the UF Group announced that in partnering with Select-TV, they are deploying 90,000 of the EMAGINE boxes to homes around the world with India being the initial target market.
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SATA was announced in 2000"Seagate, APT and Vitesse Unveil the First Serial ATA Disc Drive at Intel Developer Forum", Seagate Technology, Aug. 22, 2000 in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing protocol. Revision 1.0 of the specification was released in January 2003. Serial ATA industry compatibility specifications originate from the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO).
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The original 5 teams were the Screaming Yellow Zonkers (still playing in OCUA), Bruce and the Usuals, the Ultimate Revolution, Disc Guys, and Disc Drive. As a result of this new league, players from Ottawa helped organize a Canadian entry into the 1986 World Championships in Colchester, England, joining players from Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver to form the Canadian team. The first Canadian ultimate championships for ultimate were held for the open division in Ottawa in 1987. OCUA subsequently hosted the 1993, 1999, 2002, 2011, and 2017 Canadian Ultimate Championships.
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In addition, other features include chat transcription and the expanded limit for party users from 8 to 16. On December 19, 2019, Sony released update 7.02 with the goal of improved system performance and stability. Considerable problems arose however, with regard to the system software disabling the disc drive of numerous 500gb PS4 slim models. Repairs can be enacted at the users cost of approximately half the retail price by sending it in to Sony PlayStation for service or perhaps patiently awaiting the next update for a resolution.
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A Copy Control disc will appear as a mixed-mode disc, with audio and data content. Under Windows, inserting the disc will usually autorun an audio player utility, which plays the DRM-protected audio files provided. This can be temporarily disabled by holding down the shift key while inserting the disc on Windows XP and earlier, users of Windows Vista and 7 may simply choose not to run the DRM content. The ability to extract the CD-Audio tracks is otherwise largely dependent on the disc drive used.
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The first obstacle is the "fake" Table of Contents (ToC), which is intended to mask the audio tracks from CD-ROM drives. However CD-R/RW drives, and similar, can usually access all session data on a disc, and thus can properly read the audio segment. The other major obstacle is the incompatible (and technically corrupted) error- correction data. Again, the effect of this is dependent on the disc drive; some drives will be able to read the data without problems, but others will produce audio files with loud pops every few seconds.
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This feature enables the user to either save the contents to a writable storage medium, or write the file system to the same CD containing Puppy, if "multisession" was used to create the booted CD and if the disc drive supports burning. This applies to CD-Rs as well as CD-RWs and DVDs. It is also possible to save all files to an external hard drive, USB stick, or even a floppy disk instead of the root file system. Puppy can also be installed to a hard disk.
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It had a hard disc drive for data storage along with digital and analog input/output and process interrupt all of which could be used for lab instrument interface, data acquisition and instrument control. What it did not have was any sort of operating system or high level programming facility, only a basic assembler language program. Another way of putting it would be to say that, as delivered, it was not very user friendly, if the users were to be research scientists and engineers, i.e. non-programming professionals.
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Spin-up refers to the process of a hard disk drive or optical disc drive accelerating its platters or inserted optical disc from a stopped state to an operational speed. The period of time taken by the drive to perform this process is referred to as its spin-up time, the average of which is reported by hard disks as a S.M.A.R.T. attribute. The required operational speed depends on the design of the disk drive. Typical speeds of hard disks have been 2400, 3600, 4200, 5400, 7200, 10000 and 15000 revolutions per minute (RPM).
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A large tape library, with tape cartridges placed on shelves in the front, and a robotic arm moving in the back. Visible height of the library is about 180 cm. The nearline storage system knows on which volume (cartridge) the data resides, and usually asks a robot to retrieve it from this physical location (usually: a tape library or optical jukebox) and put it into a tape drive or optical disc drive to enable access by bringing the data it contains online. This process is not instant, but it only requires a few seconds.
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On September 11, 2008, it was announced that Sony would take over NEC's 45% share, making Optiarc a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony, to be called Sony Optiarc. This took effect on December 5, 2008 In March 2013, Sony closed its Optiarc optical disc drive division, laying off about 400 employees globally. In 2017, an American company, Vinpower Digital, whose main business is manufacturing optical disc and other media duplicators for the commercial market, acquired the rights to the Optiarc brand and product line. The brand PioData is also owned by Vinpower Digital.
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If Ctrl+Alt+Delete was pressed ("warm boot"), a special flag value stored in nonvolatile BIOS memory ("CMOS") tested by the BIOS allows bypass of the lengthy POST and memory detection. The POST identifies, and initializes system devices such as the CPU, RAM, interrupt controllers, DMA controllers, chipset, video display card, keyboard, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware. Early IBM PCs had a routine in the POST that would download a program into RAM through the keyboard port and run it. This feature was intended for factory test or diagnostic purposes.
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In 1990, 60% of Microchip Technology's sales were from the disc drive industry and the product portfolio relied heavily on commodity EEPROM products. The company was losing $2.5 million per quarter, had less than 6 months of cash in reserve, had exhausted lines of credit, and was failing to control expenses. Early in the year, the venture capital investors accepted an offer to sell Microchip Technology to Winbond Electronics Corporation of Taiwan for $15 million. Winbond Electronics backed out of the deal after the Taiwanese stock market decrease in May 1990.
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Initial models had the rate setting dial calibrated in both knots and 'seconds per 50 yards'. This was altered in 1909 to yards per minute, which standardised measurement was used on other equipment designed to work with the clock. An important aspect of the Vickers range clock, as well as other designs using a wheel-on-disc drive for the variable speed motor, such as the electrical clock used in the Dreyer Fire Control Table, was that it could only generate ranges according to a constant range rate. In most firing scenarios, the range rate would change continuously.
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The Dell XPS 17, released in October 2010, was a desktop replacement laptop in the XPS Laptop line. It was priced at $949 for the base configuration, but can be customized heavily. Options include a processor upgrade up to the new Intel Core i7-840QM (Nehalem-based), an Nvidia GeForce GT 555 3 GB graphics card, up to 16 GB of DDR3 RAM memory, 1.28 TB Hard Drive space (2×640 GB @ 7200 RPM), a 17.3-inch 1600×900 resolution screen, and a Blu-ray Disc drive. It also has an LCD upgrade of 1920×1080 (Full HD) and 3D display kit.
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Hollywood contains an ARM926EJ-S core, which has been unofficially nicknamed Starlet. This embedded microprocessor runs an undocumented operating system called IOS and performs many of the Wii's I/O functions, including controlling the wireless functionality, USB, the SD card interface, the optical disc drive, the internal NAND flash storage, WiiConnect24 when the console is in standby mode, and other miscellaneous functions. The Starlet acts as the security controller of the console, performing various cryptography functions; Starlet is designed to remain secure even if the Broadway is compromised. Hollywood includes hardware implementations of AES and SHA-1 to speed up Starlet's security functionality.
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In DVD authoring, a write strategy is a set of low-level parameters that enables an optical disc drive to write on a specific type of blank media according to its optimum specifications. The media type is identified by the manufacturer and media ID, which is often unrelated to the brand of the media due to rebadging. Write strategies are essential for compatibility with various types of blank media, and are typically stored in the drive's firmware. If a drive lacks a write strategy for a media type, it will only be able to write using minimum speed.
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Simply sliding off the side panel reveals the drive bay, which can quickly be unscrewed." They also stated that whilst the Super Slim model is not in any way an upgrade, it could be an indicator as to what's to come. "It may not be revolutionary, but the Super Slim PS3 is the same impressive machine in a much smaller package. There doesn't seem to be any reason for existing PS3 owners to upgrade, but for the prospective PS3 buyer, the Super Slim is probably the way to go if you can deal with not having a slot-loading disc drive.
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Samsung NC10 motherboard featuring the Intel Atom processor Netbooks typically have less powerful hardware than larger laptop computers and do not include an optical disc drive that larger laptops often have. Some netbooks do not even have a conventional hard drive.What is a Netbook computer? Such netbooks use solid-state storage devices instead, as these require less power, are faster, lighter, and generally more shock-resistant, but with much less storage capacity (such as 32, 64, or 128 GB compared to the 100 GB to 2 TB mechanical hard drives typical of many notebooks/laptop computers).
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Optical disc drives capable of playing CD-ROMs, compact discs (CD), DVDs, and in some cases, Blu-ray discs (BD), were nearly universal on full-sized models by the early 2010s. A disc drive remains fairly common in laptops with a screen wider than , although the trend towards thinner and lighter machines is gradually eliminating these drives and players; these drives are uncommon in compact laptops, such as subnotebooks and netbooks. Laptop optical drives tend to follow a standard form factor, and usually have a standard mSATA connector. It is often possible to replace an optical drive with a newer model.
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Interior The design of the new Vantage is inspired by the track-only Vulcan and the purpose made DB10 that appeared in the James Bond film Spectre. The front grille, specifically inspired by the Vulcan, helps in efficient engine cooling. The Vantage's interior configuration also differs from the DB11 in various ways apart from seating capacity, such as the center console design. Whereas the DB11's center stack controls are quite intuitive and more spatial in terms of button/switch arrangement, the Vantage's appears more cluttered and lacks an optical disc drive, as well as separate temperature displays for the automatic climate control.
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The optical lens of a compact disc drive. The bottom surface of a 12 cm compact disc (CD-R), showing characteristic iridescence. LaserCard made by Drexler Technology Corporation. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits and lands (where change from pit to land or from land to pit corresponds to binary value of 1, no change, regardless whether in land or pit area, corresponds to binary value of 0) on a special material (often aluminum ) on one of its flat surfaces.
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From the components angle, it supported overclockable Intel Core 2 Extreme processors (2.8 GHz to 3.4 GHz overclocked via the X7900 or X9000 Processor), dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX video cards in SLI, up to two 7200 RPM SATA hard drives available in RAID, and up to 8 GB DDR2 SDRAM . A Blu-ray Disc Drive was an option in some models. New with this latest version was a built in optional AGEIA physics card to enable PhysX enhanced titles take advantage of hardware accelerated physics, the option for 64 GB solid state drives, a back lit keyboard including a number pad, and a Logitech gaming LCD display above the keyboard.
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Diagram of the relationships between Unix systems including the ancestors of macOS After Apple removed Steve Jobs from management in 1985, he left the company and attempted to create the "next big thing", with funding from Ross Perot and himself. The result was the NeXT Computer. As the first workstation to include a digital signal processor (DSP) and a high-capacity optical disc drive, NeXT hardware was advanced for its time, but was expensive relative to the rapidly commoditizing workstation market and marred by design problems. The hardware was phased out in 1993; however, the company's object-oriented operating system NeXTSTEP had a more lasting legacy.
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In 2012, Seagate continued to raise its dividend and repurchased nearly 30% of the company's outstanding shares. In the fiscal year ended June 2012, Seagate had achieved record revenues, record gross margins, record profits and regained its position as the largest disc drive manufacturer, and its market value had increased to over $14 billion. In March Seagate demonstrated the first 1 TB/square inch density hard drive, with the possibility of scaling up to 60 TB by 2030. In 2013, Seagate was the first HDD company to begin shipment of shingled magnetic recording drives, announcing in September that they had already shipped over 1 million such drives.
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The Leyland TX450 is a 17.5 tonne technology demonstrator concept truck developed by the British commercial vehicle company Leyland Trucks in 1986. The aerodynamic cab design by Ogle Design incorporated a new driver layout including a mix of analogue and CRT displays, onboard computer, disc drive and orunbter, axle weighing system and rear view camera. The TX450 is powered by a 165 hp Leyland 320 turbocharged engine coupled to a continuously variable transmission system. It has a 6x2 chassis layout with traction control and the trailing rear wheels steer to match the front ones, matching the manoeuvrability to that of a 7.5 tonne vehicle.
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In August 2019, Michael Burry's investment firm Scion Asset Management sent a letter to GameStop urging the company to engage in a portion of stock buybacks. The letter also revealed that Scion currently owns approximately 2,750,000 shares, or about 3.05% of GME. GME, which has been in steady decline in share price since late January 2019, saw a spike of roughly 20% after Burry revealed that he's going long on the stock in an interview with Barrons. In the interview, Burry explained that both Sony and Microsoft will enter the next console generation with a physical disc drive and therefore likely extend the longevity of GameStop.
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The device is backward compatible with most PSP games; however, its lack of a UMD disc drive limits this capability to those titles which have been digitally released on the PlayStation Network via the PlayStation Store, but not physical PSP games or films. The Vita is also backward compatible with the majority of the PS one Classics – the group of PlayStation 1 games Sony has made available digitally for download, and PlayStation Minis – small-budget downloadable titles originally created for the PSP and PS3. Games from Sony's PlayStation Mobile initiative had initially been compatible, but were removed when the service was shutdown in September 2015. In Japan, select downloadable PC Engine and PocketStation titles became backward compatible as well.
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The PlayStation 4 uses the PlayStation Dynamic Menu as its graphical shell, in contrast to the XrossMediaBar (XMB) used by the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3, as well as the LiveArea used by the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV. It is named "Dynamic Menu" because the options it offers to players are context-sensitive, changing based on what a player is actually doing with their PlayStation 4 at any given time. This makes navigation simpler than the previous iteration. This dynamic menu can alter itself so that there's as little time as possible between the users placing a game in the disc drive and the actual gameplay beginning. The PlayStation 4's user interface attempts simplicity as a priority.
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When a player parties up with a group, they also have the ability to join games together, chat together or view a slideshow of photos. Another feature gives players the ability to create Avatars. Players are able to customize avatars by changing body shape, facial features, hair and clothes, as well as new clothing being released from time to time. Xbox Live requires that users select an avatar. Another feature is the ability to install an entire game disc onto the Xbox 360's hard drive, which decreases loading times, and significantly reduces noise due to the game being read from the hard drive and not the louder disc drive (similar to the PS2 HD LOADER Feature).
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Pam is angry with him, saying that the computer was not meant for Erin personally but for the receptionist's desk in general, and therefore it was not hers to switch. Pam tells Andy that the only way he can get a new computer is if his breaks, which leads to him accepting all cookies, intentionally opening pop-up ads, and placing food in the disc drive. Pam then buys Andy a new computer, which they scratch up so it figures into Pam's fake cover story (finding a spare model in the warehouse), and Pam later doles out some vacation days to Darryl to keep the whole lie nicely bottled up. In "Garage Sale", Andy, Darryl, and Kevin play and bet on the Dallas board game.
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Its name comes from lap, as it was deemed to be placed on a person's lap when being used. Although originally there was a distinction between laptops and notebooks (the former being bigger and heavier than the latter), as of 2014, there is often no longer any difference. Today, laptops are commonly used in a variety of settings, such as at work, in education, for playing games, web browsing, for personal multimedia, and general home computer use. Laptops combine all the input/output components and capabilities of a desktop computer, including the display screen, small speakers, a keyboard, data storage device, sometimes an optical disc drive, pointing devices (such as a touchpad or trackpad), with an operating system, a processor and memory into a single unit.
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MacBook Pro Unibody 15 inch On October 14, 2008, in a press event at company headquarters, Apple officials announced a new 15-inch MacBook Pro featuring a "precision aluminum unibody enclosure" and tapered sides similar to those of the MacBook Air. Designers shifted the MacBook Pro's ports to the left side of the case, and moved the optical disc drive slot from the front to the right side, similar to the MacBook. The new MacBook Pros had two video cards that the user could switch between: the Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT with either 256 or 512MB 1 MB = 10242 B (1 MiB) of dedicated memory and a GeForce 9400M with 256MB of shared system memory. Although the FireWire 400 port was removed, the FireWire 800 port remained.
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The Telecom Port is repaired by Parallax -- after the CPU detects Indexx accessing one of its data banks -- and the Warriors head back to transfer through it, ending up in the same house. Both the Viruses and Warriors soon learn they can scan and adapt camouflage shells that look like ordinary, everyday objects; which allow them to continue their battle to either capture or destroy the other side. Eventually, after some skirmishes, Romm uses the home computer's disc drive to capture the Viruses on CD-Rom discs. But, before the Warriors can return them to the Bitstream, a young boy who owns the computer finds the discs, and decides to take them to a friend's house; as his friend has a better computer to use for his homework.
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The Sony Vaio 700 series were Sony's first Vaio branded laptops, starting with the 705 and 707 models, launched in Japan on July 1, 1997, and subsequently in the United States. The 700 series featured removable 3.5" floppy disk drive, removable 14x CD-ROM, 33.6kbit/s integrated modem, 12.1" screen, 2.1GB hard disk drive, 2MB VRAM, 128MB maximum RAM, IrDA port, lithium-ion battery, with optional second battery and an optional docking station with firewire, USB, mouse, keyboard, ethernet and SCSI. The launch models offered an 800x600 screen (705) or 1024x768 screen (707), 256KB cache, 16MB (705) or 32MB (707) RAM a Pentium 1 MMX 150 or 166 MHz CPU, and Windows 95 pre-installed. The weight with single battery, and CD and floppy disc drive removed was 2.4 kg.
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There was a variant of the DFS called the DNFS, or Disc/Network Filing System, that contained the Econet Network Filing System (NFS), standard Disc Filing System and Tube co-processor support software on a single ROM; this ROM installed two filing systems into the OS at once. The initial design for the DFS was based around an Intel Corporation FDC 8271 disc drive controller, the immediate predecessor of the 8272 design found in the IBM Personal Computer. The 8271 controller was of limited functionality and obsolete, and later versions of the file system from various vendors including Solidisk, Acorn and Watford Electronics were based on the later WD1770 and WD1772 drive controllers. The 1770 controller quickly became the standard controller in the Acorn range following the advent of ADFS.
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Basic hardware components of a modern personal computer, including a monitor, a motherboard, a CPU, a RAM, two expansion cards, a power supply, an optical disc drive, a hard disk drive, a keyboard and a mouse Inside a custom-built computer: power supply at the bottom has its own cooling fan The personal computer is one of the most common types of computer due to its versatility and relatively low price. Desktop personal computers have a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and a computer case. The computer case holds the motherboard, fixed or removable disk drives for data storage, the power supply, and may contain other peripheral devices such as modems or network interfaces. Some models of desktop computers integrated the monitor and keyboard into the same case as the processor and power supply.
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Unlike mechanical disks with permanent housing such as hard drives, and solid-state devices like flash memory which generally has inexpensive but tough housing, optical discs typically have a reflective surface that can get damaged at relatively low thresholds of surface damage, in which if damage is just accidental, it could mean rendering it unusable. Also, the repeated handling of discs between jewel case and disc drive exposes the disc to dust, and also makes the disc liable to be damaged permanently. Also note that some CD and DVD discs also have defective aluminum layers that can flake, and damage the disc naturally. If an archival-grade disc is used, such as gold CD or M-DISC, the disc can last far longer than hard drives or flash memory.
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One Linux version has 4 GB, a MS Windows XP version has 8 GB, and all remaining ones, MS Windows XP or Linux, have 16 GB. The Eee PC 1000 contains a fast 8 GB internal SSD and a slower 32 GB internal flash drive. Some models, such as the 1000H and 904HD, do not have a SSD, and instead have a SATA internal hard drive of either 80 or 160 GB, which can be upgraded by the user. All Eee PC models also include a memory card reader, supporting SD, SDHC and MMC cards for additional storage, while the Eee PC S101 also has support for Memorystick and MS-PRO. Eee PC 1004DN is the first model with a Super-Multi optical disc drive (ODD) that reads and writes data to DVD or compact disc.
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An optical disc drive is a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism, such as floppy disks and hard disks, or semiconductors, such as flash memory Optical storage can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM to multiple drives reading multiple discs such as an optical jukebox. Single CDs (compact discs) can hold around 700 MB (megabytes) and optical jukeboxes can hold much more. Single-layer DVDs can hold 4.7 GB, while dual-layered can hold 8.5 GB. This can be doubled to 9.4 GB and 17 GB by making the DVDs double sided, with readable surfaces on both sides of the disc.
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Zotac's ZBOX and MAG series of small mini-PCs are nettops based on Intel, AMD, or Nvidia graphics, and they are all sold in both as complete ready-to-use computer and as barebone computers (without memory and hard drive). Zotac Zbox ID33, ID34, ID81, ID80 and AD04 are all specifically marketed towards the HTPC market, with some coming with slot-loading Blu-ray Disc optical disc drive, and some with a remote control. The mintBox by the Linux Mint team is an OEM version of the Israeli company CompuLab's fit-PC, which comes pre-installed with Linux Mint open source operating-system and software, MATE desktop, and XBMC. Available in two fanless models, both with AMD APUs, HDMI output port, eight USB slots, two eSATA ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, built-in Bluetooth, and an infrared media center remote control.
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The encoding material sits atop a thicker substrate (usually polycarbonate) that makes up the bulk of the disc and forms a dust defocusing layer. The encoding pattern follows a continuous, spiral path covering the entire disc surface and extending from the innermost track to the outermost track. The data are stored on the disc with a laser or stamping machine, and can be accessed when the data path is illuminated with a laser diode in an optical disc drive that spins the disc at speeds of about 200 to 4,000 RPM or more, depending on the drive type, disc format, and the distance of the read head from the center of the disc (outer tracks are read at a higher data speed due to higher linear velocities at the same angular velocities). Most optical discs exhibit a characteristic iridescence as a result of the diffraction grating formed by its grooves.
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The drive is able to read both DVD±R and DVD±RW in addition to being able to play DVD-Video out of the box, unlike its predecessor, which required the purchase of an add-on remote. The system is also capable of playing standard CDs along with CD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM XA, CD-Extra, WMA-CD, MP3-CD, and JPEG Photo CD. Some users reported problems with the disc drive, as when a user changes the console's orientation, the inserted disc may brush against the drive's pickup assembly and incur scratches to it. The users manual advises against changing the console's position while there is a disc in the drive. Other users report experiencing disc scratching during normal horizontal usage. Announced at CES 2006 and first publicly shown at E3 2006, an external HD DVD drive was released in North America on November 7, 2006 (for US$199.99) and in Japan on November 17, 2006 (for ¥19,800).
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The Xbox Series S is comparable in its hardware to the Xbox Series X, similar to how the Xbox One S relates to the Xbox One X, but has less processing power. While it runs the same CPU with slightly slower clock frequencies, it uses a slower GPU, a custom RDNA2 with 20 CUs at 1.55 GHz for 4 TFLOPS, compared to 12 TFLOPS of the Series X. It ships with 10 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD storage unit with a raw input/output throughput of 2.4GB/s, and does not include any optical disc drive, thus requiring the user to gain all software from digital distribution. It is intended to render games nominally at 1440p, with support for a 4K upscaler, at 60 frames per second, although it can go as high at 120 frames per second at this resolution. Otherwise, the console has the same functions as the Xbox Series X, including ports, expansions, and game support.
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Both of these are difficult to find because a follow-up has been released (under the name Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus) and thus the original PSO was rarely sold after then, and because the Broadband Adapter was not often carried in stores due to the Nintendo GameCube's very limited selection of online games. As of August 2019, the most common method is to use an Action Replay in conjunction with an SD card adapter inserted into the memory card slot, allowing the user to run Homebrew from the SD card, or over Ethernet. Another method involves using a modchip to allow the GameCube to run Homebrew from a MiniDVD-R via the disc drive. Another method uses a save game exploit which involves transferring modified game save files to a GameCube memory card that triggers arbitrary code execution when loaded by an official game, allowing custom software to be run from a memory card, SD card, or other media.
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Sony eventually released the first commercial erasable and rewritable -inch optical disc drive in 1987, with dual-sided discs capable of holding 325 MB per side. The CD-ROM format was developed by Sony and Denon, introduced in 1984, as an extension of Compact Disc Digital Audio and adapted to hold any form of digital data. The CD-ROM format has a storage capacity of 650 MB. Also in 1984, Sony introduced a LaserDisc data storage format, with a larger data capacity of 3.28 GB.Japanese PCs (1984) (14:24), Computer Chronicles In September 1992, Sony announced the MiniDisc format, which was supposed to combine the audio clarity of CD's and the convenience of a cassette size. The standard capacity holds 80 minutes of audio. In January 2004, Sony revealed an upgraded Hi-MD format, which increased the capacity to 1 GB (48 hours of audio). The DVD format, developed by Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba, was released in 1995, and was capable of holding 4.7 GB per layer; with the first DVD players shipping on November 1, 1996 by Panasonic and Toshiba in Japan and the first DVD-ROM compatible computers being shipped on November 6 of that year by Fujitsu.
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