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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CD-ROM (redirect from Compact disc read-only memory)
(/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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CD player (redirect from Compact disc player)
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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Data compression (redirect from Compressed data)
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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Dynamic range compression (redirect from Audio compressor)
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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Phonograph record (redirect from Gramophone disc)
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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Sound recording and reproduction (redirect from Audio storage)
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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Digital recording (redirect from Digital audio recorder)
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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Movie projector (section Optical)
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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