CD-ROM
Data Storage Medium
Compact Disc...variant of the Compact Disc + Graphics (CD+G) format. Like CD+G, CD+EG utilizes basic CD-ROM features to display text and video information in addition to the music being played. This extra data is stored in subcode channels R-W. Very... In this article: Philips, Compact Disc, Sony, Cd-rom, Cd-rw, CD-i, CD-R, CD+G, DVD, and Polycarbonate |
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Neowin.net / Main | August 11, 2009
Record labels to launch new format CMX
..."CD" or Compact Disc. It's portable and playable in any CD-ROM compatible optical drive, home or car stereo, or Discman, and easily converts to many different formats for use in portable media devices like MP3 Players. #14.4 LoveThePenguin...
In this article: Apple, Itunes, Microsoft, Sony, DVD, Compact Disc, IPod, Zune, and EMI
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Wikipedia | August 26, 2009
Blue Book specification
...players can play back this first Session as a CD Audio disc. The second session contains CD-ROM data files with content often related to the Audio Tracks in the first Session. The second session will only be used by computer systems...
In this article: Blue Book specification and Compact Disc
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Digital Compact Cassette
The DCC was discontinued after October 1996. DCC signalled the parting of ways of Philips and Sony, who had worked together successfully on the Compact Disc, CD-ROM and CD-i before. Based on the success of Digital Audio Tape in...
In this article: Philips, MiniDisc, Matsushita, Sony, IBM, Netherlands, Compact Disc, CD-R, 9-track, and Marantz
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PMCD
...Compact Disc designed to be sent to a CD pressing plant for replication. The PreMaster CD format, developed in the early 1990s by the CD-ROM division of Sony, in cooperation with of Tokyo and Sonic Solutions, contained a hidden "PreMaster Cue...
In this article: Compact Disc, CD-R, Sonic Solutions, Sony, Orange Book, DVD, and Tokyo
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Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. The...
In this article: DVD, Trademark, Compact Disc, and Recording Industry Association of America
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Write Once Read Many
...be written to once, but read from multiple times. WORM does not include the original Compact Disc or CD-ROM, because they are pressed from master disks, and not writable by a computer. WORM is an inherent property of some data storage...
In this article: CD-R, Dvd-r, Compact Disc, and Magnetic field
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Gaston Bastiaens
...engineer and businessman. As a vice president of Philips Electronics, he was responsible for the Compact Disc as well as for CD-i, CD-ROM, Philips' contributions to the MPEG standard and the foundations for the DVD. In 1992 he moved to Apple...
In this article: Philips Electronics, Apple Computer, DVD, Compact Disc, and CD-i
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Comparison of popular optical data-storage systems
...into optical data storage has been ongoing for many decades, the first popular system was CD-ROM, introduced in 1982, adapted to data storage (the CD-ROM format) with the 1985 Yellow Book , and re-adapted as the first mass market optical...
In this article: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, Dvd+r, Dvd-r, CD-R, Ultra Density Optical, Dvd-rw, and Compact Disc
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Red Book (audio CD standard)
...audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM format s. The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by...
In this article: Philips, Trademark, DVD, Compact Disc, and Sony
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CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory") is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.
CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, whilst data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as PC CD-ROMs). These are called Enhanced CDs.
Although many people use lowercase letters in this acronym, proper presentation is in all capital letters with a hyphen between CD and ROM. It was also suggested by some, especially soon after the technology was first released, that CD-ROM was an acronym for "Compact Disc read-only-media", or that it was a more "correct" definition. This was not the intention of the original team who developed the CD-ROM, and common acceptance of the "memory" definition is now almost universal. This is probably in no small part due to the widespread use of other "ROM" acronyms such as Flash-ROMs and EEPROMs where "memory" is usually the correct term.
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