EE498 Audio Compact Disk - An Introduction
Illustrated class lecture notes that cover manufacturing of stamped CDs and details of laser pickup tracking. This is equally relevant to data CDs.
EE498 Audio Compact Disk - Writing and Reading the Data
Illustrated class lecture notes that cover frame-level data encoding (IEC908/Red Book) including interleaving, Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM), P and Q parity, subcode blocks, and uses of the p- and q-subcode channels.
EE498 CD-ROM - An Extension of the CD Audio Standard
Illustrated class lecture notes explain ISO/IEC 10149 (Yellow Book) data structures including sector layout and q-subcode extensions. These form the basis for all data CDs.
General CD-R archives
Archive of lots of questions and answers regarding CD-R and related technologies, both hardware and software.
High Density format
This document gives basic information on the High Density (HD) format developed by Sanyo.
How Stuff Works: CD-RW drive
Explantion of the technology of CD-RW drives, contains interactive flash animations.
How Stuff Works: Compact Disc
Detailed descriptions and animations explain the technology used in a compact disc.
How Stuff Works: DVDs
An illustrated explanation of the technology behind DVD media and players. It includes some animations.
An index of the ECMA standards
Lists all documents regarding the ECMA standards, including optical storage and data compression.
Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ
The official FAQ of the Internet DVD newsgroups. Its primary emphasis is on video, but there is a section on data DVDs that describes each format.
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