Rainbow Books
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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications.wikipedia
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Compact disc
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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications.
After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980.
Compact Disc Digital Audio
Audio CDCDRed Book
CD-DA (Digital Audio) – standardized as IEC 60908
The standard is defined in the Red Book, one of a series of "Rainbow Books" (named for their binding colors) that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats.
Photo CD
PCDKodak Photo CDKodak Photo-CD
*PCD (Photo) CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and CD-i Bridge specifications as well.
CD-RW
rewritable CDsCD-MOCD-R/RW
CD-MO (Magneto-Optical)
Prior to the introduction of the CD-RW technology, a standard for magneto-optical recordable and erasable CDs called CD-MO was introduced in 1990 and set in the Orange Book, part 1, and was basically a CD with a magneto-optical recording layer.
CD-ROM
CDCD-ROM drives18x
CD-ROM (Read-Only Memory) – standardized as ECMA-130 and ISO/IEC 10149 CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
One of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats, the Yellow Book, standardized by Sony and Philips in 1983, specifies a format for discs with a maximum capacity of 650 MiB.
CD-R
CDRrecordable CDrecordable CDs
CD-R (Recordable) alias CD-WO (Write Once) alias CD-WORM (Write Once, Read Many) – partially standardized as ECMA-394
CD-R/RWs are available with capacities of 80 minutes of audio or 737,280,000 bytes (700 MiB), which they achieve by molding the disc at the tightest allowable tolerances specified in the Orange Book CD-R/CD-RW standards.
Optical disc authoring
burningoptical disc authoring softwareburned
Orange Book also introduced the standard for multisession writing.
Rainbow Books (optical disc data standards)
Orange-Book-Standard
Orange-Book-Standard, a decision named after the Compact Disc standard, issued in 2009 by the German Federal Court of Justice on the interaction between patent law and standards
The name "Orange-Book-Standard" comes from the Orange Book that contained the format specifications for CD-Rs, the technology at issue in the case that led to the Orange-Book-Standard decision.
Content format
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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications.
Specification (technical standard)
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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications.
CD-Text
CD-Text—a 1996 extension to CD-DA
Karaoke
noraebangkaraoke machinekaraoke bars
CD+G (plus Graphics) – karaoke
CD+G
CD + DVDCD+EG / CD+XG
CD+G (plus Graphics) – karaoke
Philips CD-i
CD-iCD Interactive (CD-I)CD-i console
*CD-i (Interactive)
White Book (CD standard)
White Book
CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
Green Book (CD standard)
Green BookCD-iGreen Book CD-i
CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
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Video CD
VCDVCDsvideo disk
CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
Super Video CD
SVCDChina Video DiscChina Video Disc (CVD)
CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. SVCD (Super Video, 1998) – a 1998 extension of VCD, standardized as IEC 62107 in 2000.
International Electrotechnical Commission
IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)(IEC)
SVCD (Super Video, 1998) – a 1998 extension of VCD, standardized as IEC 62107 in 2000.
Blue Book (CD standard)
Blue BookCD ExtraCD-Extra
*E-CD/CD+/CD Extra (Enhanced)
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ISO 9660
ISOCDFS.cdfs
ISO 9660, a 1986 filesystem standard used in conjunction with CD-ROM formats.
Compact Disc manufacturing
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A CD can be used to store audio, video, and data in various standardized formats defined in the Rainbow Books.
History of science and technology in Japan
Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), also called Red Book, was an audio format developed by Sony and Philips in 1980, and commercially introduced with their compact disc (CD) format in 1982.