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CD Replication: The Rainbow Standards (full list)
The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards created by Philips that define the allowed formats of Compact Discs. This list is an extract from the original article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
Red Book
- CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD-Text
Yellow Book
- CD-ROM – Read-Only Memory and CD-ROM XA
Orange Book
- CD-R alias CD-WO or CD-WORM – Recordable, Write Once or Write Once, Read Many
- CD-RW alias CD-E – ReWritable or Erasable
- CD-MO – Magneto-Optical
White Book
- VCD – Video and
- CD-Bridge - Hybrid discs, e.g. CD-Ready
Blue Book
- E-CD – Enhanced,
- CD+ – plus and
- CD+G – plus Graphics (karaoke) extended by CD+EG / CD+XG,
Beige Book
- PCD – Photo (not Picture)
Green Book
Purple Book
Scarlet Book
