| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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What Are the Most Popular Components of a Home Theater System? by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| There are three main components that every home theater system shares. These are a television, the bigger and wider the screen the better, a DVD player, and a good quality set of surround-sound speakers. |
| Published: Tuesday 14 April, 2009 |
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CDR-RW - part 1 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| Normal music CDs and CD-ROMs are made from pre-pressed discs and encased in plastic. The actual data is stored through pits, or tiny indentations, on the silver surface of the internal disc. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 2 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| ISO 9660 is a data format designed by the International Standards Organisation in 1984. It's the accepted cross-platform protocol for filenames and directory structures. Filenames are restricted to uppercase letters, the digits "0" to "9" and the underscore character, "_". Nothing else is allowed. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 3 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| Write Once/Read Many storage (WORM) has been around since the late 1980s, and is a type of optical drive that can be written to and read from. When data is written to a WORM drive, physical marks are made on the media surface by a low-powered laser and since these marks are permanent, they cannot be... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 4 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| Just as CD-R appeared to be on the verge of becoming a consumer product, the launch of CD-Rewritable CD-ROM, or CD-RW, in mid-1997 posed a serious threat to its future and provided further competition to the various superfloppy alternatives. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 5 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| 8cm CD recordable and rewritable media - offering a capacity of 185MB - have been available for a number of years. Most tray-loading CD players are already designed to handle 8cm disks, via a recess in the tray that is exactly the right diameter to accommodate a "mini CD". |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 6 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| The idea of a double density writable and rewritable CD media is not new. In the early 1990s a number of companies experimented with extending the White Book and Red Book standards to store large amounts of video. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 7 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| The recorded tracks on a CD-RW disc are read in the same way as regular CD tracks: by detecting transitions between low and high reflectance, and measuring the length of the periods between the transitions. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 8 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| CD-R's have a pre-formed spiral track, with each sector address hard-coded into the media itself. The capacity of the most widely available CD format is expressed either as 74 minutes or 650MB. Each second of playing time occupies 75 CD sectors, meaning a complete CD has a capacity of 74x60x75 = 333... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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CDR-RW - part 9 by MDofPC |
Topic: CDR-RW |
| Though ubiquitous not long into the new millennium, drag&drop writing of data to CD-RW media was still not supported at the operating system level, relying on special packet-writing applications based on the UDF file system. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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