Optical Discs
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An '''optical disc''' is read by a laser. They have been used extensively to store and distribute music, movies, and computer programs and data. CD drives became commonplace in personal computers in the mid-1990s, and burners to create CD-ROMs on personal computers were common by the early 2000s. Later, the higher-capacity DVD format became common both for reading and writing as well, and the even newer BluRay format won a "format war" against rival HD-DVD to get some popularity at present, though physical formats in general are on the wane as a distribution format due to the widespread deployment of the high-bandwidth Internet. | An '''optical disc''' is read by a laser. They have been used extensively to store and distribute music, movies, and computer programs and data. CD drives became commonplace in personal computers in the mid-1990s, and burners to create CD-ROMs on personal computers were common by the early 2000s. Later, the higher-capacity DVD format became common both for reading and writing as well, and the even newer BluRay format won a "format war" against rival HD-DVD to get some popularity at present, though physical formats in general are on the wane as a distribution format due to the widespread deployment of the high-bandwidth Internet. | ||
| + | * [[BluRay Disc]] | ||
* [[CD]] (Compact Disc) | * [[CD]] (Compact Disc) | ||
** [[CD-DA]] (Compact Disc Digital Audio or Red Book) | ** [[CD-DA]] (Compact Disc Digital Audio or Red Book) | ||
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** [[CD-MIDI]] | ** [[CD-MIDI]] | ||
** [[CD-ROM]] (Yellow Book) | ** [[CD-ROM]] (Yellow Book) | ||
| − | ** [[ | + | ** [[Enhanced CD]] |
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** [[Photo CD]] (Beige Book) | ** [[Photo CD]] (Beige Book) | ||
*** [[CD-i]] (Green Book) | *** [[CD-i]] (Green Book) | ||
| − | ** [[ | + | ** [[SACD]] (Super Audio CD or Scarlet Book) |
| − | * [[ | + | ** [[VCD]] (Video CD or White Book) |
| + | *** [[Super Video CD]] | ||
* [[DVD]] | * [[DVD]] | ||
** [[DVD-Audio]] | ** [[DVD-Audio]] | ||
** [[DVD-ROM]] | ** [[DVD-ROM]] | ||
* [[HD-DVD]] | * [[HD-DVD]] | ||
Revision as of 04:23, 25 November 2012
An optical disc is read by a laser. They have been used extensively to store and distribute music, movies, and computer programs and data. CD drives became commonplace in personal computers in the mid-1990s, and burners to create CD-ROMs on personal computers were common by the early 2000s. Later, the higher-capacity DVD format became common both for reading and writing as well, and the even newer BluRay format won a "format war" against rival HD-DVD to get some popularity at present, though physical formats in general are on the wane as a distribution format due to the widespread deployment of the high-bandwidth Internet.
