Compact Disc Recordable

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Compact Disc Recordable - (CD-R) A write-once version of CD-ROM. CD-Rs can hold about 650 megabytes of data. They are very durable and can be read by normal CD-ROM drives, but once data has been written it cannot be altered.

Standard prerecorded CDs have their information permanently stamped into an aluminium reflecting layer. CD-R discs have a dye-based recording layer and an additional golden reflecting layer.

Digital information is written to the disc by burning (forming) pits in the recording layer in a pattern corresponding to that of a conventional CD.

The laser beam heats the substrate and recording layer to approximately 250 C. The recording layer melts and the substrate expands into the space that becomes available.

Phillips: New Technologies.

See also CD-RW and DVD-RAM.

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CD-R	compact disc read-only memory

Similar in concept to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R), DVD-R is a write-once medium that can contain any type of information normally stored on mass produced DVD discs--video, audio, images, data files, multimedia programs, and so on.

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Unlike Roxio, LCD's software allows music to download from the Internet and instantly and automatically burn to a compact disc recordable (CD-R) in "one click".

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The logo will enable consumers to recognize CD and DVD players that can utilize Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) and Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) discs recorded on personal computers, and do so as readily as they use pressed discs.

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