CD

File Format
Name	CD
Ontology	Physical File Formats Optical Discs CD
Released	1982

The CD (Compact Disc) is a popular medium for recorded sound as well as computer data. It is a laser-read optical disc. Discs of the same size were later used for the DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats, allowing the same player to support all of these formats.

Types

• CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio or Red Book)
• CD-MIDI
• CD-ROM (Yellow Book)
• DD-CD (Double-density Compact Disc)
• Enhanced CD
• Photo CD (Beige Book)
• CD-i (Green Book)
• SACD (Super Audio CD or Scarlet Book)
• VCD (Video CD or White Book)
  • Super Video CD

Links

• Wikipedia article
• How It's Made: Compact Discs (video)
• Entourage Music Supervisor Throws Out CDs On The Street
• Establishing a Workflow Model for Audio CD Preservation
• It turns out that your CD drives really don't like having CDs explode inside them