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  2. CD-R - Wikipedia

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    Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, in the aspect of low-level encoding and data format, fully compatible with the audio CD (Red Book CD-DA) and data CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM) standards. The Yellow Book standard for CD-ROM only specifies a high-level data format and refers to the Red Book for all physical format and low-level code details, such as ...

  3. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    CD-ROM XA is an extension of the Yellow Book standard for CD-ROMs that combines compressed audio, video and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously. [21] It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i and was published by Sony and Philips, and backed by Microsoft, in 1991, [22] first announced in September 1988. [23] "XA ...

  4. CD-RW - Wikipedia

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    Before CD-RW technology, in 1990 a standard for magneto-optical recordable and erasable CDs called CD-MO was introduced and set in the Orange Book, part 1 as a CD with a magneto-optical recording layer. The CD-MO standard allowed for an optional non-erasable zone on the disc that could be read by CD-ROM units.

  5. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    It wasn't. MiniDiscs were popular in Japan but didn't make much of a splash in the U.S. The CD-R, another recordable format, as well as later competition from the Hi-MD made the MiniDisc a mini-don't.

  6. Removable media - Wikipedia

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    The CD-ROM was introduced in 1985, providing much higher capacity than a floppy disk, however could not be written to. This was resolved in 1990 with the introduction of the CD-R . [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The CD-RW , introduced in 1997 allowed the CD to be written to multiple times, rather than just once, as with the CD-R. [ 18 ] DVD versions of these ...

  7. Compressed audio optical disc - Wikipedia

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    A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio in the MP3 file format. Discs are written in the "Yellow Book" standard data format (used for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs), as opposed to the Red Book standard audio format (used for CD-DA audio CDs).

  8. Rainbow Books - Wikipedia

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    CD-i Bridge [18] - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. VCD ( Video ) – a standard jointly developed and published by JVC, Matsushita, Philips and Sony.

  9. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    An optical disc is designed to support one of three recording types: read-only (e.g.: CD and CD-ROM), recordable (write-once, e.g. CD-R), or re-recordable (rewritable, e.g. CD-RW). Write-once optical discs commonly have an organic dye (may also be a ( Phthalocyanine ) Azo dye , mainly used by Verbatim , or an oxonol dye, used by Fujifilm [ 4 ...