Rainbow Books

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For the series of U.S. government publications on computer security standards, see Rainbow Series.

Optical disc authoring
Optical disc Optical disc image Recorder hardware Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing
Optical media types
Laserdisc Compact Disc/CD-ROM: CD-R, CD-RW MiniDisc DVD: DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+RW DL, DVD-RAM Blu-ray Disc: BD-R, BD-RE HD DVD: HD DVD-R: HD DVD-RAM UDO UMD
Standards
Rainbow Books File systems ISO 9660 Joliet Rock Ridge Amiga extensions to Rock Ridge El Torito Apple ISO9660 Extensions Universal Disk Format Mount Rainier

The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the allowed formats of Compact Discs.

• Red Book
  • CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD Text,
• Yellow Book
  • CD-ROM – Read-Only Memory and
  • CD-ROM XA,
• Orange Book ^[1]
  • CD-MO – Magneto-Optical
  • CD-R alias CD-WO or CD-WORM – Recordable, Write Once or Write Once, Read Many
  • CD-RW alias CD-E – ReWritable or Erasable,
  • The orange book standard references the fact that "Yellow" and "Red" mix to orange; which means that CD-R and CD-RW is capable of music and data; although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium.
• 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 ^[2]
  • CD-i – interactive,
• Purple Book
  • DDCD – Double Density,
• Scarlet Book
  • SACD – Super Audio.

See also

• Mini CD (6 or 8 cm diameter),
• CD-V (analog video),
• MiniDVD (8-cm cDVD or UDF-CD), KVCD,
• SVCD (incorporating CVD and HQ-VCD),
• DVD, UMD,
• HD DVD, BD, EVD,
• CC-CD (UnCD),
• CD-MRW (packet writing),
• ML-CD, DDCD,
• XRCD, HDCD,
• HVD (holographic).

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