| Audio CD: CD format designed to hold audio data
Autoloader: Automated CD or DVD duplicator
Blue Book: standard for CD Extra
Blu-Ray: (also known as Blu ray or BD) an optical disc storage media format. Used for high-definition video and data storage.
CD: Compact Disc
CD-Bridge: CD format that includes extra information on a CD-ROM/XA track, so that it can be played on a CD-i or CD-ROM/XA drive
CD-DA: Compact Disc - Digital Audio
CD-Extra: a multisession CD featuring audio and data
CD-I: Compact Disc - interactive. A multimedia CD format
CD-R: Optical disc which data/audio can be written to once
CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory. An optical disc holding computer data.
CD-ROM/XA: CD-ROM Extended Architecture
CD-RW: A re-writable optical disc
CD Writer/Burner: A drive capable of writing and/or re-writing recordable CDs
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc
DVD Audio: DVD format designed to hold audio data
Disk-At-Once (DAO): a whole CD is written to without turing the laser off, i.e. there is only one track burned.
DVD-R: Optical disc capable of having data written onto it once. Much larger capacity than CD-R.
DVD-ROM: Digital Versatile Disc Read-Only Memory. Holds computer data
DVD-RW: A re-writable DVD disc
DVD Video: DVD format designed to hold video data
Firmware: instructions and data programmed into the circuits responsible for controlling the operation of peripheral devices
Green Book: standard for CD-I
HFS: Mac OS Standard File System
Hybrid CD: CD-ROM standard readable by PCs and MACs
ISO9660: The industry standard file structure for CD-ROMs
Joliet: Joliet file system
Lightscribe: optical disc recording technology utilizes specially coated recordable discs to laser-etch the disc with text or graphics
Master: A disc or file containing data or audio ready for duplication
Mixed Mode: a format including a data track and one or more audio tracks
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures. A measure of how reliable a piece of hardware or a component is.
Multisession: recordable CD format allowing data to be written to the disc in more than one session
Orange Book: a recorable CD standard; CD-R and photo CD
Photo CD: process from Kodak whereby images from film are stored onto a CD
Red Book: standard for CD-Rs playable in audio CD players
Rockridge: Rockridge file system
Table of Contents (TOC): Information on the starting psotions of tracks in the area of the CD before audio or data
Tower: Manual CD or DVD duplicator
Track-At-Once (TAO): when the CD is written the laser is turned on and off between tracks, leaving a small gap between audio tracks
UFS: Unix File System
Video CD: CD format designed to hold video data
White Book: standard for Video CD
Yellow Book: CD-ROM standard
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