Optical Discs

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* [[CD]] (Compact Disc)
 
* [[CD]] (Compact Disc)
** [[CD-ROM]]
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** [[CD-DA]] (Compact Disc Digital Audio or Red Book)
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** [[SACD]] (Super Audio CD or Scarlet Book)
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** [[CD-MIDI]]
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** [[CD-ROM]] (Yellow Book)
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** [[VCD]] (Video CD or White Book)
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*** [[Super Video CD]]
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** [[Photo CD]] (Beige Book)
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*** [[CD-i]] (Green Book)
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** [[Enhanced CD]]
 
* [[BluRay Disc]]
 
* [[BluRay Disc]]
 
* [[DVD]]
 
* [[DVD]]
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** [[DVD-Audio]]
 
** [[DVD-ROM]]
 
** [[DVD-ROM]]
 
* [[HD-DVD]]
 
* [[HD-DVD]]

Revision as of 18:15, 19 November 2012

File Format
Name Optical Discs
Ontology

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.

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