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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...
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  • Music Disc, an extension to the Red Book standard that uses DTS Coherent Acoustics 5.1 surround sound Compressed audio optical disc, an optical disc storing...
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    Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA), also known as Digital Audio Compact Disc or simply as Audio CD, is the standard format for audio compact discs. The...
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    MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced...
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    LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. It was developed by Philips, Pioneer, and the movie studio...
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    Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended...
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    (/ˌsiːdiːˈrɒm/, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers...
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    Blu-ray (redirect from Blu-Ray disc)
    Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005...
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    The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs...
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    Disk storage (redirect from Disc storage)
    computer. In contrast, optical audio and video discs use a single spiral track that starts at the innermost point on the disc and flows continuously to...
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    A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to...
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    Mixtape (redirect from Audio mixtape)
    Lights by J. Cole. Music portal Compilation album Mixtape albums Compressed audio optical disc DJ mix Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture Portable media...
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    the surrounds are 48/20. Audio is stored on the disc in Linear PCM format, which is either uncompressed or losslessly compressed with MLP (Meridian Lossless...
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    Optical Disc Archive (ODA) is an archival storage technology developed by Sony. A single cartridge is designed to hold as many as 12 optical discs, each...
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  • compressed). Processing of a lossily compressed file for some purpose usually produces a final result inferior to the creation of the same compressed...
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    is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's...
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    M-DISC (Millennial Disc) is a write-once optical disc technology introduced in 2009 by Millenniata, Inc. and available as DVD and Blu-ray discs. M-DISC's...
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    ATRAC CD (category Compact disc)
    An ATRAC CD is a compressed audio optical disc containing compressed digital audio in the ATRAC3 or ATRAC3plus formats, which are part of Sony's ATRAC...
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    TOSLINK (redirect from Optical audio)
    (PCM) audio; or decode compressed 5.1/7.1 surround sound audio signals, such as Dolby Digital and DTS. Unlike an HDMI connector cable, a TOSLINK optical fiber...
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    HD DVD (redirect from Advanced Optical Disc)
    HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete high-density optical disc format for storing data and playback of high-definition...
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    Company was selling single-sided 7-inch discs with an advertised standard speed of "about 70 rpm". One standard audio recording handbook describes speed regulators...
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  • discs do remain in a commercial setting as a digital rights management enforcement technique, where encrypted compressed copies of the digital audio are...
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    S/PDIF (category Audio communications protocols)
    uncompressed digital audio from a CD player to an amplifying receiver. The S/PDIF interface is also used to carry compressed digital audio for surround sound...
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    Singer (1927), which used the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system rather than an optical soundtrack. The Audio Engineering Society has issued all these recordings...
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    Video CD (redirect from Video compact disc)
    with an optical disc drive that is programmed to understand VCD discs. However, they are less playable in most Blu-ray Disc players, vehicle audio with DVD/Blu-ray...
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  • Audio connectors and video connectors are electrical or optical connectors for carrying audio or video signals. Audio interfaces or video interfaces define...
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    Russell patents the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, which would later lead to the Compact Disc. January 1971: Using NHK's experimental...
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    intended wide-screen image is compressed optically, using additional cylindrical elements within the lens so that when the compressed image strikes the film...
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    audio-only Blu-ray optical discs. Launched in 2013 as a potential successor to the compact disc (CD), it has been compared with DVD-Audio and SACD, which...
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    DVD-Video (category Rotating disc computer storage media)
    Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below)...
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