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Chapter 10-CD Media

A CD-R is a type of compact disc that allows a user to write data to it once, but supports reading of the disc multiple times. It uses a dye-based recording layer between the polycarbonate disc and metal reflective layer that can be permanently altered by exposure to laser light during the writing process. Most CD-Rs can hold up to 74 minutes of audio or data. The technology enabled users to create their own custom CDs from their computers using CD burner drives.

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Chapter 10-CD Media

A CD-R is a type of compact disc that allows a user to write data to it once, but supports reading of the disc multiple times. It uses a dye-based recording layer between the polycarbonate disc and metal reflective layer that can be permanently altered by exposure to laser light during the writing process. Most CD-Rs can hold up to 74 minutes of audio or data. The technology enabled users to create their own custom CDs from their computers using CD burner drives.

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CD Media

A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally


developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since late
1982, remains the standard playback medium for commercial audio recordings to
the present day.

An audio CD consists of one or more stereo tracks stored using 16-bit PCM
coding at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz. Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 mm
and can hold approximately 80 minutes of audio. There are also 80 mm discs,
sometimes used for CD singles, which hold approximately 20 minutes of audio.
The technology was later adapted for use as a data storage device, known as a CD-
ROM, and to include record-once and re-writable media (CD-R and CD-RW
respectively). CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the
computer industry as of 2007. The CD and its extensions have been extremely
successful: in 2004, the worldwide sales of CD audio, CD-ROM, and CD-R
reached about 30 billion discs. By 2007, 200 billion CDs had been sold
worldwide.[1]

A compact-disk format that allows audio or other digital data to be written, read,
erased, and rewritten. Derived from compact-disk rewritable. Also known as
compact-disk erasable.
Optical media - such as the compact disk (CD) - are storage media
that hold content in digital form and that are written and read by a
laser; these media include all the various CD and DVD variations, as
well as optical jukeboxes and autochangers. Optical media have a
number of advantages over magnetic media such as the floppy …

disk. Optical disk capacity ranges up to 6 gigabytes; that's 6 billion


bytes compared to the 1.44 megabytes (MB) - 1,440,000 bytes - of
the floppy. One optical disk holds about the equivalent of 500 floppies
worth of data. Durability is another feature of optical media; they last
up to seven times as long as traditional storage media.

The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) is an international


trade organization dedicated to the promotion of standardized writable
optical technologies and related products. Incorporated in 1992, OSTA
is made up of members and associates …
Optical Storage Media definition sponsored by

Objects on which data can be stored. These include hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROMs,
and tapes.

(2) In computer networks, media refers to the cables linking workstations together. There
are many different types of transmission media, the most popular being twisted-pair wire
(normal electrical wire), coaxial cable (the type of cable used for cable television), and
fiber optic cable (cables made out of glass).

(3) The form and technology used to communicate information. Multimedia


presentations, for example, combine sound, pictures, and videos, all of which are
different types of media.
CD-R

- CD-R (for compact disc, recordable) is a type of write once, read many
(worm) compact disc (CD) format that allows one-time recording on a disc. The
CD-R (as well as the CD-RW) format was introduced by Philips and Sony in
their 1988 specification document, the Orange Book. Prior to the release of the
Orange Book, CDs had been read-only audio (CD-Digital Audio, described in the
Red Book), to be played in CD players, and multimedia (CD-ROM), to be played
in computers' CD-ROM drives. After the Orange Book, any user with a CD
recorder drive could create their own CDs from their desktop computers.

Like regular CDs (all the various formats are based on the original Red Book
CD-DA), CD-Rs are composed of a polycarbonate plastic substrate, a thin
reflective metal coating, and a protective outer coating. However, in a CD-R, a
layer of organic polymer dye between the polycarbonate and metal layers serves
as the recording medium. The composition of the dye is permanently
transformed by exposure to a specific frequency of light. Some CD-Rs have an
additional protective layer to make them less vulnerable to damage from
scratches, since the data - unlike that on a regular CD - is closer to the label side
of the disc. A pregrooved spiral track helps to guide the laser for recording data,
which is encoded from the inside to the outside of the disk in a single continuous
spiral. The laser creates marks in the dye layer that mimic the reflective
properties of the pits and lands (lower and higher areas) of the traditional CD.
The distinct differences in the way the areas reflect light register as digital data
that is then unencoded for playback.

CD-R discs usually hold 74 minutes (650 MB) of data, although some can hold
up to 80 minutes (700 MB). With packet writing software and a compatible CD-
R or CD-RW drive, it is possible to save data to a CD-R in the same way that one
can save it to a floppy disk, although - since each part of the disc can only be
written once - it is not possible to delete files and then reuse the space. The
rewriteable CDs, CD-RWs, use an alloy layer (instead of the dye layer) which can
be transformed to and from a crystalline state repeatedly.

CD recorders (usually referred to as CD burners), were once much too expensive


for the home user, but now are similar in price to CD-ROM drives. CD-Rs can be
created in any CD-R or CD-RW drive.

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