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  2. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    The CD-ROM itself may contain "weak" sectors to make copying the disc more difficult, and additional data that may be difficult or impossible to copy to a CD-R or disc image, but which the software checks for each time it is run to ensure an original disc and not an unauthorized copy is present in the computer's CD-ROM drive. [citation needed]

  3. MovieCD - Wikipedia

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    For viewing MovieCDs, Sirius recommended a 486 processor or higher, at least 8 MB of RAM, and a 2x-speed CD-ROM drive (most MovieCDs had a data rate of about 280-300 kB/sec). [6] MovieCDs had a running time of about 45 minutes each, so feature films often were stored on two or three discs in one box, and the consumer had to swap discs to watch ...

  4. CD-RW - Wikipedia

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    CD-ROM drives with a "MultiRead" certification are compatible. CD-RWs must be erased or blanked before reuse. Erasure methods include full blanking where the entire surface of the disc is erased and fast blanking where only metadata areas, such as PMA, TOC and pregap, are not cleared. Fast blanking is quicker and usually sufficient to allow ...

  5. Order a CD-ROM to install AOL - AOL Help

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    Additionally, Netscape users can get online by downloading the AOL Dialer. The CD takes up to 15 business days (Monday through Friday, excluding weekends) to arrive. If the CD does not arrive after 15 business days, please call 866-541-8233 to reorder the software. Note: All customers (free and paid, AOL and Netscape) are eligible to order an ...

  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 - Wikipedia

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    An optical disc drive is a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism , such as floppy disks and hard disks , or semiconductors , such as flash memory .

  8. Hybrid disc - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid disc is a disc, such as CD-ROM or Blu-ray, which contains multiple types of data which can be used differently on different devices.These include CD-ROM music albums containing video files viewable on a personal computer, or feature film Blu-rays containing interactive content when used with a PlayStation 3 game console.

  9. What is an optical drive? A guide to how your computer reads ...

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