Rainbow Books

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

• Red Book
  • CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD-Text,
• Yellow Book
  • CD-ROM – Read-Only Memory and
  • CD-ROM XA, - An extension to Yellow Book
• Orange Book
  • CD-MO – Magneto-Optical
  • CD-R alias CD-WO or CD-WORM – Recordable, Write Once or Write Once, Read Many
  • CD-RW alias CD-E – ReWritable or Erasable,
  • The orange book standard references the fact that "Yellow" and "Red" mix to orange; which means that CD-R and CD-RW is capable of music and data; 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.
• 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
• Green Book
  • CD-i – interactive,
• Purple Book
  • DDCD – Double Density,
• Scarlet Book
  • SACD – Super Audio.
• Black Book

No rainbow book was applied to the popular DVD and Blu-ray formats.

See also

• Mini CD (6 or 8 cm diameter),
• CD-V (analog video),
• cDVD, AKA MiniDVD (8-cm cDVD or UDF-CD),
• SVCD (incorporating CVD and HQ-VCD),
• DVD, UMD,
• HD DVD, BD, EVD,
• CC-CD (UnCD),
• CD-MRW (packet writing),
• ML-CD, DDCD,
• XRCD, HDCD,
• HVD (holographic).

References

External links

• Another summary of the books

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