Rainbow Books

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Rainbow Books

The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the allowed formats of Compact Disc s.

Red Book

--- CD-DA – ''Digital Audio'' extended by CD Text ,

Yellow Book

--- CD-ROM – ''Read-Only Memory'' and

--- CD-ROM XA,

Orange Book {Link without Title}

--- CD-MO – ''Magneto-Optical''?-->

--- CD-R alias CD-WO – ''Recordable'' or ''Write Once'' and

--- CD-RW alias CD-E – ''ReWritable'' or ''Erasable'',

White Book

--- VCD – ''Video'' and

--- CD-Bridge - ''Hybrid discs, e.g. CD-Ready'',

--- SVCD – ''Super Video'',-->

Blue Book

--- E-CD – ''Enhanced'',

--- CD+ – ''plus'' and

--- CD+G – ''plus Graphics'' ( Karaoke ) extended by CD+EG / CD+XG ,

Beige Book

--- PCD – ''Photo'' (not '' Picture ''),

Green Book {Link without Title}

--- CD-i – ''interactive'',

Purple Book

--- DDCD – ''Double Density'',

Scarlet Book

--- SACD – ''Super Audio''.

SEE ALSO

MiniCD (6 or 8 cm diameter),

MiniDVD ,

DVD , UMD ,

HD DVD , BD , EVD ,

SVCD ,

CD-V ,

CD-MRW ,

ML-CD , DDCD ,

CC-CD (UnCD),

XRCD , HDCD .

EXTERNAL LINKS

Understanding CD-R & CD-RW by Hugh Bennett