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specifications.


''Red Book'' (1980)

* CD-DA (''Digital Audio'') – standardized as IEC 60908 ** CD-Text—a 1996 extension to CD-DA ** CD-MIDI—part of the original red-book standard ** CD+G (''plus Graphics'') – karaoke *** CD+EG / CD+XG (''plus Extended Graphics'') – an extension of CD+G


''Yellow Book'' (1983)

* CD-ROM (''Read-Only Memory'') – standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 in 1988 and ECMA-130 in 1989 ** CD-ROM XA (''eXtended Architecture'') – a 1991 extension of CD-ROM


''Green Book'' (1986)

* CD-i (''Interactive'')


''Orange Book'' (1990)

Orange is a reference to the fact that red and yellow mix to orange. This correlates with the fact that CD-R and CD-RW are capable of audio ("Red") and data ("Yellow"); although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. ''Orange Book'' also introduced the standard for multisession writing. * CD-MO (''Magneto-Optical'') * CD-R (''Recordable'') alias CD-WO (''Write Once'') alias CD-WORM (''Write Once, Read Many'') – partially standardized as ECMA-394 * CD-RW (''ReWritable'') alias CD-E (''Eraseable'') – partially standardized as ECMA-395


''Beige Book'' (1992)

* PCD (''Photo'')


'' White Book'' (1993)

* CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. * VCD (''Video'') ** SVCD (''Super Video'', 1998) – a 1998 extension of VCD, standardized as IEC 62107 in 2000.


'' Blue Book'' (1995)

* E-CD/CD+/CD Extra (''Enhanced'')


''Scarlet Book'' (1999)

Scarlet color of this book is a reference to the Red Book, which defines original CDDA. * SACD (''Super Audio'')


''Purple Book'' (2000)

*
DDCD The double-density compact disc (DDCD) is an optical disc technology developed by Sony using the same laser wavelength as a compact disc, namely 780 nm. The format is defined by the ''Purple Book'' standard document. Unlike the compact-disc technolo ...
(''Double Density'')


See also

* ISO 9660, a 1986 filesystem standard used in conjunction with CD-ROM formats. * '' Orange-Book-Standard'', a decision named after the Compact Disc standard, issued in 2009 by the German Federal Court of Justice on the interaction between patent law and standards


References


External links


Philips CD Specifications
* {{standard-stub Japanese inventions Compact disc