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  2. Picture disc - Wikipedia

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    Air Conditioning by Curved Air One of the first modern picture disc conceived and designed by Mark Hanau. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (1973) was released as a picture disc as well as its regular release; Farewell Aunty Jack by Rory O'Donoghue and Grahame Bond (1973) was the first Australian picture disc; Magical Love by Saturnalia c.1973 ...

  3. Unusual types of gramophone records - Wikipedia

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    Culture Club "Move Away" 5-inch picture disc, example of the 5-inch format resting on a 7-inch single for comparison. The most common diameter sizes for gramophone records are 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch (300 mm, 250 mm, and 180 mm). [1]

  4. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    An optical disc is a flat, usually [note 1] disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the aid of a beam of light. Optical discs can be reflective, where the light source and detector are on the same side of the disc, or transmissive, where light shines through the disc to ...

  5. Photo-essay - Wikipedia

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    A photographic essay or photo-essay for short is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along a narrative journey. [1] Examples of photo essays include: A web page or portion of a web site.

  6. Photo CD - Wikipedia

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    Kodak Photo CD and packaging. Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991, [1] the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.

  7. Optical storage media writing and reading speed - Wikipedia

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    For example, writing to a CD at 8× will be twice as fast as writing onto a disc at 4×. [2] There are two main types of disc speed, which are the angular and linear velocities. If the disc spins at a constant angular velocity, the linear velocity is 2.4 times higher at the outer edge.

  8. Wikipedia:Pro and con lists - Wikipedia

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    A number of Wikipedia articles contain pro and con lists: lists of arguments for and against some particular contention or position.These take several forms, including lists of advantages and disadvantages of a technology; pros and cons of a proposal which may be as technical as Wi-Fi or otherwise; and lists of criticisms and defenses of a political position or other view (such as socialism or ...

  9. Track (optical disc) - Wikipedia

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    Each sector (or "timecode frame") consists of a sequence of channel frames. These frames, when read from the disc, are made of a 24-bit synchronization pattern with the constant sequence 1000-0000-0001-0000-0000-0010, not present anywhere else on the disc, separated by three merging bits, followed by 33 bytes in EFM encoding, each followed by 3 merge bits.