error control with a view to correcting a significant proportion of errors, making use of either an error correcting code or an error detecting code or a loop-checking with, in the last two cases, automatic repetition of the signals recognized as being erroneous Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=721-08-20
Error Correction on optical media in short: ECC = Reed-Solomon Error correction Code , ECC corrects errors on the fly by rewriting the blocks within the same track. in depth: Errors are inevitable but by means of robust error correction systems, CD and DVD can have uncorrectable error rates as low as that specified for computers, i.e., 10-12 (o... Found on http://www.videohelp.com/glossary?E
A method using a coding system to correct data errors by use of redundant data within a data block. Often data is interleaved for immunity to burst errors. Corrected data is identical to the original. Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20687