About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Video CD, CD-R, CD-i, Super Audio CD, Optical disc, Photo CD, Compact Disc manufacturing, Compact Disc player, MovieCD, Optical disc recording technologies, High Definition Compatible Digital, Cue sheet, Compact Disc bronzing, Mini CD, Keep case, CD-Text, SPARS code, Mixed Mode CD, CD-RW, Bootable business card, Disc rot, VideoNow, Compact Disc single, Sony CDP-101, Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation, Hybrid disc, List of SACD artists, Shaped Compact Disc, Compact Disc shattering, CD+G, CDVU+, Mini CD single, El Torito, Longbox, Digipak, WEA Manufacturing, Gold Compact Disc, Compact Disc subcode, Electronic skip protection, CD Video, Cut-out, PMCD, Cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon coding, Absolute Time in Pregroove, CD-ROM XA, 5.1 Music Disc, Skip Doctor, AgInSbTe, Discbox Slider, Opendisc, HighMAT, Program Memory Area, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony CD-ROM, C2 error, SkipDR, MildDisc, Session, Compact Disc + Extended Graphics, CD-i Ready, Surround Sound Test CD, Block Error Rate. Excerpt: The Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982. Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres (4.7 in) and can hold up to 80 minutes of uncompressed audio or 700 MB (700 x 2 bytes) of data. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 millimetres (2.4 to 3.1 in); they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio or delivering device drivers. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used t...
