Authoring is commonly done in software on computers with optical disc recorders.

Unlike early CD-ROM drives, optical disc recorder drives have generally used industry standard connection protocols.

"Blu-ray Disc recordable" refers to two optical disc formats that can be recorded with an optical disc recorder.

Use of optical disc recorders require optical disc authoring software, sometimes called "burning applications" or "burner applications".

The most commonly available versions of Nero are the OEM suites, which are bundled with many optical disc recorders.

ISO Image Burner burned ISO images to an Optical disc recorder.

Protected Disc Recorder, a flexible optical disc recorder drive from DXE Limited (company)

For example, BD-ROMs, DVD-RWs, and various optical disc recorders may all be added by the user to certain PCs.

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.

Run by Joe O'Dubhghaill, formerly a cellist with the RTE symphony orchestra, they have plans to add an Akai DD1000 optical disc recorder (for video post-production and DAT editing) plus some Macintosh computers to their already impressive formation.

Disc quality: Optical disc recorders detect the available speed options based on the data which is available on the disc itself; however, some low quality discs make a high speed option available to the software, while the burning process can never reach that speed in practice.

A DVD recorder (also known as a DVDR, mainly outside of the UK and Ireland), is an optical disc recorder that uses Optical disc recording technologies to digitally record analog signal or digital signals onto blank writable DVD media.