Patent ID: 7506347

Claim:
A method of operating a disc drive to display a video presentation in a host device, said disc drive comprising: a cartridge load module for receiving a cartridge containing an optical data storage disc; a cartridge within the cartridge load module, the cartridge containing an optical data storage disc, the optical data storage disc containing data representing the video presentation; an optical drive module comprising a spindle assembly and a laser source for reading the data; a transceiver coupled to the optical drive module for transmitting the data to the host device via a wireless signal; and a battery, the battery being connected to the optical drive module and the transceiver so as to power the disc drive during normal operation, the host device comprising a buffer memory, the method comprising: (a) reading a first portion of the data from the disc; (b) transmitting the first portion of the data to the buffer memory wirelessly via the transceiver until the buffer memory is filled; (c) when the buffer memory is filled, terminating reading the first portion of the data from the disc; (d) when the buffer memory is nearly empty, reading a second portion of the data from the disc; (e) transmitting the second portion of the data to the buffer memory wirelessly via the transceiver until the buffer memory is filled; and continuously displaying the video presentation in the host device during (a) through (e).