Original: Reed -- Solomon codes are used in a wide variety of commercial applications , most prominently in CDs , DVDs and Blu-ray Discs , in data transmission technologies such as DSL & WiMAX , in broadcast systems such as DVB and ATSC , and in computer applications such as RAID 6 systems .
Simplified: Reed-Solomon codes are used in many different kinds of commercial applications , for example in CDs , DVDs and Blu-ray Discs , in data transmission technologies such as DSL & WiMAX , and broadcast systems such as DVB and ATSC .