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Collectors traditionally reserve the term picture disc for records with graphics that extend at least partly into the actual playable grooved area, distinguishing them from picture label discs, which have a specially illustrated and sometimes very large label, and picture back discs, which are illustrated on one unplayable side only.
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.
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 ...
Although a number of optical formats have been used over time, the most common examples are optical disks like the compact disc (CD) and DVD. Reading and writing methods have also varied over time, but most modern systems as of 2023 [update] use lasers as the light source and use it both for reading and writing to the discs. [ 1 ]
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The album was one of the first vinyl picture discs [6] to be produced, and it was released as a limited edition of 10,000. [7] Picture disc technology was in its infancy and this resulted in a level of surface noise. The disc was re-issued in conventional album format (the "Green Label" edition), with a photo of the original picture disc on the ...
The Blue Book is a compact disc standard that defines the Enhanced Music CD format, which combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc. E-CD/CD+/CD Extra ( Enhanced ) [ 21 ] – a standard jointly developed and published by Microsoft , Philips and Sony
The Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc format. It was originally created to take the place of the DVD format due to its expanded storage capacity. The name "Blu-ray" is derived from the use of a blue laser that is used to read the disc. This would be in contrast to the red laser used to read DVD Discs.