Editing Optical disc (section)

===Overview of optical types===
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! Name !! Capacity !! Experimental<ref group=Note>Prototypes and theoretical values.</ref> !! Years<ref group=Note>Years from (known) start of development till end of sales or development.</ref>

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| [[LaserDisc]] (LD) || N/A || || 1971–2007
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| [[Write Once Read Many Disk]] (WORM) || 0.2–6.0 GB || || 1979–1984
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| [[Compact disc]] (CD) || 0.7–0.9 GB || || 1982–present
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| Electron Trapping Optical Memory (ETOM) || 6.0–12.0 GB || || 1987–1996
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| [[MiniDisc]] (MD) || 0.14–1.0 GB || || 1989–2025
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| [[Magneto-optical drive|Magneto Optical Disc]] (MOD) || 0.1–16.7 GB || || 1990–present
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| [[DVD|Digital Versatile Disc]] (DVD) || 4.7–17 GB || || 1995–present
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| [[LIMDOW]] (Laser Intensity Modulation Direct OverWrite) || 2.6 GB||10 GB||1996–present
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| [[GD-ROM]] || 1.2 GB || || 1997–2006
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| [[Fluorescent Multilayer Disc]] || || 50–140 GB || 1998-2003
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| [[Versatile Multilayer Disc]] (VMD) || 5–20 GB || 100 GB || 1999-2010
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| [[Hyper CD-ROM]] || 1 PB || 100 EB ||1999–present
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| [[DataPlay]] || 500 MB || || 1999-2006
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| [[Ultra Density Optical]] (UDO) || 30–60 GB || || 2000–present
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| [[Forward Versatile Disc]] (FVD) || 5.4–15 GB || || 2005–2006<ref>{{cite web |author1=Computer Language Company |title=Definition: FVD |url=https://www.computerlanguage.com/results.php?definition=Forward+Versatile+Disc |access-date=11 October 2024 |ref=CLCFVD}}</ref>
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| [[Enhanced Versatile Disc]] (EVD) || DVD || || 2002-2004
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| [[HD DVD]] || 15–51 GB || 1 TB{{Citation_needed|reason=|date=December 2015}} || 2002-2008
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| [[Blu-ray Disc]] (BD) || 25 GB<br />50 GB || || 2002–present
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| [[BDXL]] || 100 GB, 128 GB || 1 TB || 2010–present
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| [[Professional Disc for Data]] (PDD) || 23 GB || || 2003-2006
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| [[Professional Disc]] || 23–128 GB || || 2003–present
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| [[Digital Multilayer Disk]] || || 22-32 GB || 2004–2007
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| [[Multiplexed Optical Data Storage]] (MODS-Disc) || || 250 GB–1 TB || 2004–present
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| [[Universal Media Disc]] (UMD) ||0.9–1.8 GB || || 2004–2014
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| [[Holographic Versatile Disc]] (HVD) || || 6.0 TB || 2004–2012
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| Protein-coated disc (PCD) || || 50 TB || 2005–2006
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| [[M-DISC]] || 4.7 GB (DVD format)<br />25 GB (Blu-ray format)<br />50 GB (Blu-ray format)<br /> 100 GB ([[Blu-ray#BDXL|BDXL]] format) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdisc.com/100gb|title=100 GB Disc - M-DISC|website=www.mdisc.com|access-date=3 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064310/http://www.mdisc.com/100gb/|archive-date=18 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> || || 2009–present
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| [[Archival Disc]] || 0.3-1 TB || || 2014–2024
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| [[Ultra HD Blu-ray]] || 50 GB<br />66 GB<br />100 GB<br />128 GB || || 2015–present
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