Optical storage media: CD-ROM

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;="" mso-bidi-font-style:italic"="" lang="EN-US">Deals with Optical Storage Media that includes: read-only optical discs, write-once-read many optical discs and erasable optical discs. Defines the concept of Optical Storage and describes the physical character of optical disc and its characteristics in terms of durability, high storage and portability. Read-only optical discs are discussed in detail. Highlights the CD-ROM discs, their physical character and manufacturing process. Discusses the manufacturing processes that include premastering, mastering and replication with merits and demerits in detail. Highlights some standards of Compact Disc- Interactive (CD-I) and Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory Extended Architecture (CD-ROM XA) used tor accommodating multimedia information on <span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">compact disc. Explains the characteristics of WORM discs and erasable optical discs, their manufacturing process and merits and demerits over hard discs.</span></span></span>