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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications generally written and published by standards bodies including the ISO, IEC, and ECMA.
Red Book (1980)
[edit]- 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)
[edit]- CD-ROM (Read-Only Memory)[1][2] – standardized as ISO/IEC 10149[3] in 1988 and ECMA-130[4] in 1989
- CD-ROM XA (eXtended Architecture) – a 1991 extension of CD-ROM
Green Book (1986)
[edit]- CD-i (Interactive)
Orange Book (1990)
[edit]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)
[edit]- PCD (Photo)
White Book (1993)
[edit]- 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)
- E-CD/CD+/CD Extra (Enhanced)
Scarlet Book (1999)
[edit]Scarlet color of this book is a reference to the Red Book, which defines original CDDA.
- SACD (Super Audio)
Purple Book (2000)
[edit]- DDCD (Double Density)
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "InfoWorld Vol. 16, No. 23". InfoWorld. June 6, 1994. p. 88. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
- ^ "Proceedings of the 5th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference". U.S. Government Printing Office. April 15–18, 1996. p. 11. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- ^ ISO (1995). "ISO/IEC 10149:1995 – Information technology – Data interchange on read-only 120 mm optical data disks (CD-ROM)". Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)" (PDF). ECMA. June 1996. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
External links
[edit]- Philips CD Specifications
- "The Great Books". The World of CDs and DVDs. ThinkQuest. Archived from the original on 2012-12-09. Retrieved 2010-04-07.