CD formats

Audio CDs are this standard CD-DA

CD-DA

A proprietary standard for creating CDs with built-in interactivity. These are not CDs with interactive software programs on them.

CD-I

The standard for recordable optical CDs.

CD-R

This is the original CD standard

CD-ROM

An extension to the ISO 9660 standard. Allows multiple types of data (audio, data, video) to be put on the same CD.

CD-ROM XA

The standard for re-writeable optical CDs.

CD-RW

CD-R stands for

Compact Disk - Recordable

CD-RW stands for

Compact Disk Re-Writable

The predecessor to the ISO 9660 standard was called the ______________.

High Sierra format

A more standardized format than the original CD-ROM standard. Unlike other standards based on the original CD-ROM standard, this standard is not operating system-specific.

ISO 9660

A standard for structuring digitized MPEG video files.

Video CD

Video CDs are this book color

White

Compact disc formats are categorized by ______ book

color

CD-ROM stands for

compact disk read only memory

Interactive CDs are this book color

green

Multi-session CDs (Defines standards for recording data to a CD in more than one increment.) are this book color

orange

Audio CDs are this book color

red

Data CDs are this book color yellow

yellow