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Information about Yellow Book (cd Rom Standards)

The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips was the first extension of the Red Book.

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The Yellow Book itself is not freely available. However, its content corresponds to the ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA 130 standards; the latter can be downloaded at
Rainbow Books
CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc read-only media") is a Compact Disc that contains data accessible by a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the format was later adapted to hold any form of binary data.
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Sony Corporation
ソニー株式会?

Public (TYO: 6758 ; NYSE:  SNE )
Founded May 7 1946 (adopted current name in 1958) by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita[1]
Headquarters Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan[1]
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics)

Public (Euronext: PHIA , NYSE:  PHG )
Founded 1891 Eindhoven
Headquarters Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Key people Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO
Industry Electronics
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Compact Disc Digital Audio

Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: 2 channels of PCM audio, each signed 16-bit values sampled at 44100 Hz
Capacity: up to 700 MB
Read mechanism: 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Developed by: Sony & Philips
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Ecma International is an international, private (membership-based) standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association
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Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the allowed formats of Compact Discs.
  • Red Book
  • CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD-Text,
  • Yellow Book

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Compact Disc Digital Audio

Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: 2 channels of PCM audio, each signed 16-bit values sampled at 44100 Hz
Capacity: up to 700 MB
Read mechanism: 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Developed by: Sony & Philips
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CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc read-only media") is a Compact Disc that contains data accessible by a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the format was later adapted to hold any form of binary data.
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CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once, Read Many optical medium (though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session) and retains a high level of
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Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) is a rewritable optical disc format. Known as CD-Erasable (CD-E) during its development, CD-RW was introduced in 1997, and was preceded by the never officially released CD-MO in 1988.
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White Book, which was released in 1987 by Sony, Philips, Matsushita, and JVC refers to a standard of compact disc that stores not only sound but also still pictures and motion video. These discs, most commonly found in Asia, are usually called "Video CDs" or "VCDs.
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Compact Disc Digital Video (VCD)

A standard pressed compact disc
Media type: optical disc
Encoding: MPEG-1 video + audio
Capacity: up to 800 MiB
Read mechanism: 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Developed by: Sony & Philips
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Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players.
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A CD+G (also known as CD+Graphics) is a special audio compact disc that contains graphics data in addition to the audio data on the disc. The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, can output a graphics signal
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Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and storing photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.
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The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players [1] . This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players.
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CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard utilized by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was
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Super Audio CD

Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: Digital (DSD)
Capacity: up to 7.95 GiB
Read mechanism: 650 nm laser
Developed by: Sony & Philips
Usage: Audio storage
Super Audio CD (SACD
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