Optical Discs

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** [[CD-MIDI]]
 
** [[CD-MIDI]]
 
** [[CD-ROM]] (Yellow Book)
 
** [[CD-ROM]] (Yellow Book)
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** [[DD-CD]] (Double-density Compact Disc)
 
** [[Enhanced CD]]
 
** [[Enhanced CD]]
 
** [[Photo CD]] (Beige Book)
 
** [[Photo CD]] (Beige Book)
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** [[DVD-Audio]]
 
** [[DVD-Audio]]
 
** [[DVD-ROM]]
 
** [[DVD-ROM]]
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* [[Enhanced Versatile Disc]]
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* [[GD-ROM]]
 
* [[HD-DVD]]
 
* [[HD-DVD]]
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** [[China Blue High-Definition Disc]]
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* [[Laserdisc]]
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* Nintendo optical discs
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** [[Nintendo GameCube Game Disc]]
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** [[Nintendo Wii Optical Disc]]
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** [[Nintendo Wii U Optical Disc]]
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* [[Ultra Density Optical]]
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* [[Universal Media Disc]]

Revision as of 13:06, 28 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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