The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio ( 44. 1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in a. wav or. aiff file ) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as MP3.

A few WADs have been released commercially, including the Master Levels for Doom II, which was released in 1995 along with Maximum Doom, a CD containing 1, 830 WADs that had been downloaded from the Internet.

For example, uncompressed songs in CD format have a data rate of 16 bits / channel x 2 channels x 44. 1 kHz ≅ 1. 4 Mbit / s, whereas AAC files on an iPod are typically compressed to 128 kbit / s, yielding a compression ratio of 0. 09, for a data-rate savings of 0. 91, or 91 %.

In 1992, Bernard Luskin, Philips Interactive Media, and Eric Doctorow, Paramount Worldwide Video, successfully put the first fifty videos in digital MPEG 1 on CD, developed the packaging and launched movies on CD, leading to advancing versions of MPEG, and to DVD.

On 1 November 2007, the Boynton book and CD titled Blue Moo was released and Jones is featured in both the book and CD, singing " Your Personal Penguin ".

Piling up the imagined 404 billion CD-ROM from 2007 would create a stack from the earth to the moon and a quarter of this distance beyond ( with 1. 2 mm thickness per CD ).

It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1. 5 Mbit / s ( 26: 1 and 6: 1 compression ratios respectively ) without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable / satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting ( DAB ) possible.

In addition to the multi-AV port ( almost same one as used on the Sega Genesis model 1, though they are not interchangeable ), all Neo Geo CD models had composite RCA A / V and S-Video out jacks on the rear of the console.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

A model 1 Sega CD and a model 1 Sega Genesis

* Victor Wondermega RG M2JVC Wondermega RG M1 ( JAPAN-ONLY ( released on April 1, 1992 ): combination Mega Drive / Mega-CD player with enhanced sound, video and karaoke capabilities and a mechanized CD tray lid.

Complete backups were possible as the CD Backup RAM Cart contained 16 times the amount of back-up RAM of the Mega-CD ( 1 Mbit, or 2045 Game Save Blocks, compared to the Mega-CD's 64 kbit, or 125 Game Save Blocks.

1. 2 dm — diameter of a Compact Disc ( CD ) (= 120 mm )

These kits included IR capability, a new plastic memory door to accommodate the IR diodes, a memory card with 1 MB, the new ROM for Palm OS 2. 0, and a CD ROM with updated desktop software.

* Leisure Suit Larry Collection ( 2006 ): This barebones collection only contains the 1-6 Larrys originally released on floppies ( substituting the Larry 1 VGA remake for the EGA original, and excluding the full-talkie CD edition of Larry 6 ).

Video CDs are authored using the Mode 2 / XA format, allowing roughly 800 megabytes of VCD data to be stored on one 80 minute CD ( versus 700 megabytes when using Mode 1 ).

MP3 playback support was built-in beginning with version 6. 1 and audio CD playback was natively supported with version 7.

A shorter version features on the CD single.

The other CD adds many optionally installable features for Windows Server 2003.

Mills ' Exhibitionist DVD, from 2004, features him mixing live on three decks and CD player in a studio.

Software cracking is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, usually related to protection methods: ( copy protection, protection against the manipulation of software ), trial / demo version, serial number, hardware key, date checks, CD check or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.

Williams also features on a double CD titled Concrete which was released on the same day as Rudebox.

The CD features a concert recorded for the BBC featuring the Pet Shop Boys and Williams singing their classic hit " Jealousy ".

Windows Media Player features integrated Audio CD-burning support since version 7 as well as data CD burning support since Windows Media Player 9 Series on Windows XP and later.

Two versions of the album were released: A 2-disc ' deluxe ' version that included a DVD with ' making-of ' features and sound-check recordings and a single CD jewel case version.

Technically superior to its two predecessors, XvT runs on Windows, requires a joystick ( the others could be played with a mouse ), features a CD audio soundtrack, supports high resolution graphics, brings texture mapping to the ship models of the in-flight game engine, includes robust multiplayer options for up to eight players in free-for-all, team-based, and cooperative play modes, and has a sophisticated pilot and mission selection system that tracks the player's points and awards.

The CD-i interactive multimedia CD player features a wired controller that is basically the original Gravis PC GamePad in a monochrome, grey color scheme.

Measurement of CD is also complicated by the fact that typical aqueous buffer systems often absorb in the range where structural features exhibit differential absorption of circularly polarized light.

* Doscore is a FreeDOS-based distribution that can boot from a CD and has integrated Internet and file-sharing abilities that also features a Graphical User interface internally developed by the team of Finntech and Doscore.

The resulting CD, What Doesn't Kill You ..., released in 2007, features contributions from both Whaley and Hasselvander as a consequence.

A contributing factor may have been the inability of early CD players to reliably read discs with surface damage and offer anti-skipping features for applications where external vibration would be present, such as automotive and recreation environments.

Also, EAC has the ability to autodetect some of these features by a test-rip of a known reference CD.

The most widely distributed format, the North American CD, features the alternate " chest / cross " album cover, a cropped black-and-white close-up of the photograph of Glenn Danzig found on the back of the LP sleeve and on the interior of all formats.

* LTM Recordings official site, features much former Factory catalog on CD and DVD

1994 DCC Compact Classics Gold CD release Special Markets USA GSZ 1062 features original version with 5 ' 50 version as a bonus track-this edition also featured booklet with full song lyrics.

Thanks to stronger-than-expected sales, the band released The Best of Blind Melon in 2005, a CD – DVD package that features Blind Melon performing live from a September 1995 concert in Chicago.

Simple dedicated audio CD players would not be affected by the malformed data since these are for features they do not support — for example, an audio player will not even look for a second session containing the copy protection data.

The CD version features 10 more levels: rather than destroying the Vortex the player walks through it to reach the aliens ' homeworld.

The standard CD features highlights from the band's studio albums, while a deluxe version adds rarities, B-sides, and unreleased material, as well as a DVD of the band's music videos.

The Vermeer Quartet's Grammy-nominated CD of Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ Productions: CD 23042 features introductions by Rev.

The Sega CD version features an exclusive soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro.