DVD drive

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-001925",
  "term": "DVD drive",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "An optical disc drive that reads data from and may write data to Digital Versatile Discs. It uses a laser beam, operating at a wavelength of 650 nm for standard DVDs, to detect microscopic pits and lands on the disc's surface, which represent binary data. A DVD-ROM drive is read-only, while a DVD writer (or burner) can also record data to blank discs.",
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "see_also": [
    "CD drive",
    "Blu-ray drive",
    "HD DVD drive"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "DVD-Laufwerk",
    "es": "unidad de DVD",
    "fr": "lecteur DVD"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/dvd-drive/"
}