The Formats and Capacities of Various CD’s

Dec 16
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2007

Keith McGregor

Keith McGregor

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1 type of optical disc is the Compact Disc (CD) which come in various formats. The most commonly used are the Audio CDs, which can hold up to 80 mins of audio that will play in most hi-fi CD players. 78 minutes is the maximum playing time, 4 seconds is the minimum track duration and 99 tracks is the maximum number of tracks which can be held on a CD.

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These also have the capacity to hold,The Formats and Capacities of Various CD’s Articles 400 hi-res pictures, 140 short/average length songs and computer data of up to 750MB. On top of this, CD duplication, CD copying and CD printing can all be implemented using compact discs to backup, duplicate and customize information stored on a CD.

Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD) are another 2 formats of CD’s. VCD hold video and audio content (like a small film but the quality is low) and SVCD is a much a higher quality version.

The CD’s used for production are white-faced printable discs. These can be used for inkjet, screen and litho CD printing. These usually measure 120 x 120mm with a centre-hole diameter of 22mm. These have superseded the discs with a centre-hole measuring 37mm. There is a “little brother” to this type of disc which is exactly the same but smaller. These measure 80mm across, with a centre-hole diameter of 15mm. The other format is silver discs. Although some printers can print colour onto silver discs, the most common process for printing onto silver discs is Thermal.

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