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Nothing in the Red, Yellow or Orange Book standards prohibits disc reading / writing devices from having the capacity to read or write discs beyond the Compact Disc standards.

The standards do require discs to meet precise requirements in order to be called Compact Discs, but the other discs may be called by other names ; if this were not true, no DVD drive could legally bear the Compact Disc logo.

While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.

Furthermore, if the same device with no explicit performance specs beyond the Compact Disc logo initially handles nonstandard discs reliably, there is no assurance that it will not later stop doing so, and in that case, there is no assurance that it can be made to do so again by service or adjustment.

Therefore, discs with capacities larger than 650 MB, and especially those larger than 700 MB, are less interchangeable among players / drives than standard discs and are not very suitable for archival use, as their readability on future equipment, or even on the same equipment at a future time, is not assured, even under the assumption that the discs will not degrade at all.