The document discusses different types of optical discs including CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs, and their advantages and disadvantages. CDs and DVDs can only be written to once, while rewritable discs like DVD-RAM can be rewritten many times but are more expensive. Larger storage discs like HD-DVD provide high quality pictures but the discs themselves are not cheap. USB flash drives are small, portable storage but also more expensive per gigabyte than optical discs and can be easily lost.