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    The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings...
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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...
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    CD-ROM (/ˌsiːdiːˈrɒm/, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data....
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    Compact disc bronzing, or CD bronzing, is a specific, uncommon variant of disc rot, a type of corrosion that affects the reflective layer of compact discs...
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    Double album (redirect from Double disc)
    the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because...
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    Compact disc manufacturing is the process by which commercial compact discs (CDs) are replicated in mass quantities using a master version created from...
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    master discs were still limited compared to later media such as the compact disc. From the 1950s until the advent of digital recording in the late 1970s...
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    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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    A gold compact disc is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver...
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    A shaped compact disc is a non-circular compact disc. Examples include business card CDs, CDs in the shape of a star, a map of a country, interview material...
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  • CDDB (redirect from Compact Disc Database)
    CDDB, short for Compact Disc Database, is a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. This is...
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    Sony and Philips Electronics and intended to be the successor to the compact disc (CD) format. The SACD format allows multiple audio channels (i.e. surround...
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  • double-density compact disc (DDCD) is an optical disc technology developed by Sony and Philips using the same 780 nm laser wavelength as a compact disc. The format...
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  • which was notably distorted due to disc rot was found in a charity shop. DVD § Disc quality measurements Compact disc § Integrity Lampson, L. David (September...
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    introduction of the compact disc, Kees Schouhamer Immink and Joseph Braat presented the first experiments with erasable magneto-optical compact discs during the...
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    organic dye on write-once CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R LTH discs). Compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs are common types of optical media which can be read...
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    types of exposure damage. A jewel case is a compact disc case that has been used since the compact disc was first released in 1982. It is a three-piece...
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    made from 1902 through 1920 as have been made available in selected compact disc compilations. The Caruso Edition Vol. IV was released in 1993 by Pearl...
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    of the disc. Types of Optical Discs: Compact disc (CD) and derivatives Audio CD Video CD (VCD) Super Video CD CD Video CD-Interactive LaserDisc GD-ROM...
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    DVD (redirect from MultiMedia Compact Disc)
    computer files. DVDs offer significantly higher storage capacity than compact discs (CD) while having the same dimensions. A standard single-layer DVD can...
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    Super Video CD (Super Video Compact Disc or SVCD) is a digital format for storing video on standard compact discs. SVCD was intended as a successor to...
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    CD-RW (Compact Disc-Rewritable) is a digital optical disc storage format introduced in 1997.[citation needed] A CD-RW compact disc (CD-RWs) can be written...
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    but compact disc (CD) technology had superseded the Compact Cassette in the vast majority of music markets throughout the world by this time. Compact cassettes...
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    Album (redirect from Bonus disc)
    collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital...
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    various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. Formats that fall under the enhanced CD category...
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  • The Compact Disc File System (CDFS) is a file system for read-only and write-once CD-ROMs developed by Simson Garfinkel and J. Spencer Love at the MIT...
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    the compact disc standard that can present low-resolution graphics alongside the audio data on the disc when played on a compatible device. CD+G discs are...
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    CD-R (redirect from Compact Disc Recordable)
    CD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can be only written once and can only be read...
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    when new formats such as the compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market...
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    LP record (redirect from Vinyl-disc)
    began to decline due to the increasing popularity of cassette tapes and compact discs (CDs). By 1988, the latter format began to outsell LPs. Beginning in...
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