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The Orange Book is a physical format of recordable CD announced in 1989 by Philips 
and Sony. The Orange Book describes CD-MO in part-I and CD-R in part-II. Later on 
part-II was updated. In 1994, version-II was announced for the CD-ROM and its double 
speed type. In 1996, the standards for phase change optical disc, rewritable CD (CD-RW) 
was added as part-III. 

A CD format and system devised by Eastman Kodak to record digitized photograph data. 

The collection of standards which define the different types of CDs. Through these 
standards, it has been achieved that CDs can be read and processed by as many 
devices and operating systems of the different manufacturers as possible. 

A book setting the standards for the Compact Disc physical format and audio recording 
methods, published by Philips and Sony in 1981. 

An inter-related writing procedure is defined as a session. A session consists of the Lead 
In area, the data area, and the Lead Out area. A CD can be written with several sessions. 
This is then called a multi-session CD, in contrast to a single-session CD which only 
contains one session. A silver CD generally consists of one session. 

Contents of the Lead-in, this contains the addresses of all the tracks on the CD. 

In an Audio-CD, one track corresponds to one piece of music. With a CD-ROM, one 
track contains computer data and it may have any number of files and folders. 

UDF is short for Universal Disc Format, another file layout standard for CDROM. The 
UDF format can use in CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD by Packet writing method, which would 
not cause "Buffer Under-Run" and can be compatible with ISO9660.The advantage of 
UDF is provided similar function like hard disk. 

A CD-ROM storing MPEG-1-compressed moving pictures, still pictures, audio sounds 
etc. 

A book of CD-ROM standards published by Philips and Sony in 1985.