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The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

The Orange Book consists of several parts, furnishing details of the CD-WO, CD-MO ( Magneto-Optic ), and CD-RW ( ReWritable ).

The latest editions have abandoned the use of the term " CD-WO " in favor of " CD-R ", while " CD-MO " were used very little.

Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, from a technical standpoint, fully compatible with the Audio CD ( Red Book ) and CD-ROM ( Yellow Book ) standards, although some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and especially CD-RWs.

They use Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation, CIRC error correction plus the third error correction layer defined for CD-ROM.