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by userbinator 1319 days ago
Optical media like CDs and DVDs use a similar interleaving scheme, allowing for large amounts of errors to be corrected; in fact, even during normal operation with what appears to be a completely clean and perfect disc and drive, read errors are always occurring but corrected silently so there is no loss of data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed%E2%80%9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc#Surface_error_sca...