there have been occasional reports of discs exploding inside CD/DVD drives. In the majority of those cases, the disc was already damaged, and spinning it at high speed was all it needed to shatter.

These days, a movie night usually involves cuddling up on the couch, turning on Netflix, and picking another rom-com movie ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

Unlike multi-session discs, existing data can be overwritten. To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats ...

In addition to Blu-ray, which is the optical disc that can store the most data, the production of recordable CDs and DVDs – currently a niche market – will also be gradually wound down ...