Analog cassette deck sales were expected to decline rapidly with the advent of the compact disc and other digital recording technologies such as digital audio tape ( DAT ), MiniDisc, and the CD-R recorder drives.

In order to write smaller pits onto the recording dye layer a red laser beam with a wavelength of 640 nm ( for general use recordable DVD, versus a wavelength of 780 nm for CD-R ) is used in conjunction with a higher numerical aperture lens.

Since affordable CD-R was not available until 1995, DCC and MD were an attempt to bring CD-quality recording to the home consumer.

The CD-R had the advantage of existing wide industry standards support ( the Redbook standard for audio discs and the Yellowbook standard for data read-only CD ), with the low-level recording format based upon the popular and low-cost read-only compact disc used for audio and data.

* ' Aburadako / Yokujitsu ' ( 9 / 8 / 2002 )-This is a privately copied CD-R recording of their performance and called " CD-R "

The company's notable products are batteries -- the company's name is a contraction of " maximum capacity dry cell " -- and recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, and recordable optical discs like CD-R / RW and DVD ± RW.

Most DVD-R /+ R and some CD-R discs use blue azo dye as the recording layer.

A CD-R recorder included as part of a personal computer would not be a digital audio recording device under the Act, since the personal computer was not marketed primarily for making copies of music.

With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution ( megapixels ), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk ( FD ) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible ( initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot ), and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R / CD-RW media — was released in 2000.

CD-R / RWs are available with capacities of 80 minutes of audio or 737, 280, 000 bytes ( 700 MB ), which they achieve by molding the disc at the tightest allowable tolerances specified in the Orange Book CD-R / CD-RW standards.

They are not commercially available and require the user to burn the material to a NUON-compatible CD-R.

The soundtrack is now available either as a digital download from music retailers such as iTunes and Amazon MP3 or as a CD-R through Amazon. com.

After breaking up in 2001 when Wednesday 13 left to perform vocals with the Murderdolls, the band reformed for a brief reunion in 2005 releasing a box set containing their entire recordings except for the track " Look Mom I Killed A Chicken " because Wednesday 13's master copy was " destroyed beyond repair " this track exclusively available on the 197666 7 inch LP and the band-released " Chop of My Hand " CD-R.

All copies of the album were on CD-R and only available through the Domino Records website.

It is available only on CD-R ..

It is available as a digital download ( from the band's official website ), but had only a limited physical release of 100 CD-R copies, printed by the band.

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

For the next several years she would self-record all of her live shows and release cheaply made CD-R versions which were sold in the lobby of her shows.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

You get what you get .” The sound quality also varies as the earliest recordings were made to cassettes, then eventually digital formats such as DAT, CD-R and ultimately hard-drives were used.

Floppy disks were replaced by CDs as the preferred method of distribution, with companies like Macrovision and Sony providing copy protection schemes that work by writing data to places on the CD-ROM where a CD-R drive cannot normally write.

By 2000, the entire removable magnetic disk category quickly faced obsolescence by the falling prices of CD-R and CD-RW drives and solid-state ( USB flash drives or USB keydrives ), and the SuperDisk was no exception ; it has since been quietly discontinued, as were the other special disks, which are becoming hard to find.

The original Zip drive had a maximum data transfer rate of about 1 megabyte / second ( comparable to 6 × CD-R ; although some connection methods were slower, down to approximately 50 kB / second for maximum-compatibility parallel " nibble " mode ) and a seek time of 28 milliseconds on average, compared to a standard 1. 44 MB floppy's typical 500 kbit / s ( 62. 5 kB / s ) transfer rate and several-hundred millisecond average seek time.

This series aimed at producing limited CD-R runs of albums and compilations which, though deemed notable by the label in some regard, were not commercially viable as full-scale releases.

The Siamese Sluts recorded an album with MBA co-producer Andy Taylor ; CD-R promo copies of the album ( some copies of which were entitled Big Tiger whilst others were entitled The Best Of The Siamese Sluts ) were circulated in late 2004, but the album has not to date seen an official release.

The Iomega Zip format ultimately prevailed, with capacities of 100 and 250 megabytes ( plus the rather less popular 750 MB ), but these media and their drives were quickly supplanted by the much slower but far cheaper recordable compact disc CD-R ( early models used a disc caddy to ensure proper alignment ).

The album was re-mastered and three tracks from the CD-R version were replaced with newer ones, including the DFE theme song " D-E-F ".

Plextor were the producers of the consumer perceived De facto standard for the highest quality optical drives ( mainly CD-R / RW ) in the 1990s.

This quality was reflected in their prices, which were some of the highest in the marketplace ($ 250 – 350USD for a 4x CD-R burner in 1995 ).

About 250 CD-R copies of " Delusions Of Grandeur " were pressed but only about thirty actually worked, due to technical reasons.

But the prices fell very quickly, to the point where CD-R blanks sank below $ 1. 00 by the end of the 1990s, compared to more than $ 2. 00 for similar 80-minute MiniDisc blanks.

This results in most fansubs having similar file sizes: 175 MB, 233 MB, and 350 MB are generally treated as the " standard " sizes for a fansub file because they divide evenly into 700 MB, the size of a typical CD-R. As the price of Hard disk drives have decreased while their storage capacity has increased, modeling fansub filesizes after optical media constraints has become largely unimportant.

It supports rewritable media ( CD-RW, DVD + RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-MRW and DVD + MRW ), and from InCD 5. 5 on also writing to write-once media CD-R, DVD + R, DVD-R. Current version 6. 6. 5100 is free and provides Windows XP functionality similar to Live File System in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

was a portable CD-R burner that was a similar form factor to that of the Memorex Mini CD player.

* DVD-R ( strictly DVD-R for General ): can record up to 4. 7 GB in a similar fashion to a CD-R disc.

It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data ( CD-ROM ), write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R ), rewritable media ( CD-RW ), Video Compact Discs ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Discs ( SVCD ), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.

The CD and its extensions are successful: in 2004, worldwide sales of CD audio, CD-ROM, and CD-R reached about 30 billion discs.

CD-R retains a high level of compatibility with standard CD readers, unlike CD-RW which can be re-written, but is not capable of playing on many readers.

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

The dye materials developed by Taiyo Yuden made it possible for CD-R discs to be compatible with Audio CD and CD-ROM discs.

The pregroove is not destroyed when the data are written to the CD-R, a point which some copy protection schemes use to distinguish copies from an original CD.

In addition, CPCC also proposed levies of $ 2 to $ 10 for memory cards ( since withdrawn ), 8 cent increases to CD, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDiscs.

Most modern boomboxes include a CD player compatible with CD-R and CD-RW, which allows the user to carry their own music compilations on a higher fidelity medium.

At that point in time although, no company ( not even Sony ) had been successful in creating a CD compatible read-only / read-write format ( equivalent to today's CD-R and CD-RW ).

: 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.

His other releases include a 3 " solo CD, a CD-R with guest contributions by Kevin Drumm and a split LP with Jim O ' Rourke.

** Portable players, more so portable CD players but also some portable DVD players, that invariably include an ASP feature ( Anti-Skip-protection ), struggle with CD-R / RW, DVD-R / RW and DVD + R / RW discs-due to the ASP feature being enabled.

Two years later, MindRec released Meteor Blaster DX on CD-R. Official word was that it was unable to be pressed to CD proper due to the glass mastering software suddenly unable to handle the unorthodox style of CD layout that the system expects.

It can now be found online under the name The Blank CD referring to the fact that the CD has no artwork or label on it, making it look like a blank CD-R.

Customers who order the CD directly from the label also receive a bonus 23-minute CD-R of other Boon / Crane / Derrick jam sessions and solo live tracks that didn't fit into the original track sequence.

A transport is a device that handles a particular physical storage medium ( such as magnetic tape, audio CD, CD-R, or other type of recordable media ) itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium, to ( and from ) an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.