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Glossary of CD Copier Terms![]()
Blu-Ray: HD optical storage media BD: Blu-ray disc DVD: Digital Versatile Disc DVD Audio: DVD format designed to hold audio data Disk-At-Once (DAO): a whole CD is written to without turning 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 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 the reliability of a piece of hardware or a component. Multisession: recordable CD format allowing data to be written to the disc in more than one session Orange Book: a recordable 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 postions 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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