Friction discs once contained asbestos but this has been largely eliminated.

Mixed by producer Paul Northfield and engineered by Terry Brown, it contained three discs packed with recorded performances from the band's Counterparts, Test For Echo, and A Farewell to Kings tours, marking the fourth officially released live album by the band.

The discs contained extra features including bloopers, out-takes, alternative scenes, voiceover commentaries, interviews and behind the scenes footage.

This release was contained in a small cardboard box containing a triple-CD jewel case, featuring Ultima Online: Age of Shadows, but also included Ultima IX: Ascension install and play discs as a special bonus.

The player was referred as an LV-ROM ( LaserVision Read Only Memory ) as the discs contained the driving software as well as the video frames.

The album contained two discs: the first retained the ATR formula, yet exhibited a more polished production style and lyrics of an unusually introspective nature ; the second disc was an electronic instrumental album, and in contrast was more experimental.

Radiex discs bore the same catalog numbers, and contained the same material, as Grey Gull and other products of that company.

The album was also issued in a limited edition that came in a leather-bound case complete with bonus multimedia discs that contained a plethora of music videos, bonus tracks and an elaborate photo gallery.

The " Starter Set " sold with the Optigan contained discs with fairly self-explanatory titles: " Big Organ & Drums ", " Pop Piano Plus Guitar ", " Latin Fever ", and " Guitar in 3 / 4 Time.

CD + G discs are often used for karaoke machines, which utilize this functionality to present on-screen lyrics for the song contained on the disc.

One of the package ’ s discs contained bonus material, including an extensive interview and archival footage of Hammer creating music for the show back in 1985.

Pack A ( 1460 ) included number plates, road fund licenses and GB plates, Pack B ( 1461 ) featured sports wheel discs and white-wall tyres, Pack C ( 1462 ) contained commercial vehicle items, Pack D ( 1463 ) included CD plates and L ( learner ) plates and Pack E ( 1464 ) introduced in December 1961 contained AA and RAC badges and towing plates.

This boxed set was limited to 3000 copies worldwide, and contained 10 discs including a selection of studio, live and compilation albums.

Get Away Special ( GAS G-036 ) payload canister contained four separate experiments that hydrate cement samples, record configuration stability of fluid samples, and expose computer discs, compact discs, and asphalt samples to exosphere conditions in the cargo bay of the orbiter.

" However, the discs contained " hundreds of photographs showing naked detainees being abused by U. S. soldiers.

This release contained two discs, one being the special features disc of the original DVD release, and the other a superbit version of the feature.

The discs were made by fusing together a standard 0. 6 mm-thick DVD layer ( 4. 7-gigabyte storage capacity ) to a 0. 9 mm-thick CD layer ( 60-minute or 525-megabyte storage capacity ), resulting in a 1. 5 mm-thick double-sided hybrid disc that contained CD content on one side and DVD content on the other.

" In fact they were remixed from the original studio discs and often contained performances and dialogue that were not heard in the finished film.

To further improve the size and therefore quality of the film on the disc, Superbit discs contained a reduced amount ( and usually are completely devoid ) of so-called added value and bonus material, such as documentaries or interviews, which can be found on regular DVDs.

The two discs contained the personal details of all families in the United Kingdom claiming child benefit, of which takeup in the UK is near 100 %.

Because the album contained two discs, the release was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 500, 000 copies.

The discs contained an audio commentary and theatrical trailer as extras.

* Untitled ( 3 )-CD ( Purple Trap, 1995 ) ( disc 4 of Purple Trap's 4-CD box set The Soul's True Love, which also contained three solo Haino discs )

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

They are good all-around discs and are suitable for a first time player.

By 1948, after design modifications and experimentation with several prototypes, Morrison and business partner Warren Franscioni began producing the first plastic discs, renamin it the Flyin-Saucer in the wake of reported unidentified-flying-object sightings.

The first IBM drive, the 350 RAMAC, was approximately the size of two refrigerators and stored 5 million 6-bit characters ( the equivalent of 3. 75 million 8-bit bytes ) on a stack of 50 discs.

However, the flashover voltage of a string is less than the sum of its component discs, because the electric field is not distributed evenly across the string but is strongest at the disc nearest to the conductor, which will flash over first.

* 1983 – Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets.

Throughout the first decade ( 1890 – 1900 ) of commercial production of the earliest crude disc records, the direct acid-etch method first invented by Cros was used to create the metal master discs, but Cros was not around to claim any credit or to witness the humble beginnings of the eventually rich phonographic library he had foreseen.

The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $ 700, is capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD + G ( CD + Graphics ), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs ( VCDs ), though the last requires an optional " Digital Video Card " to provide MPEG-1 decoding.

Over the first three series Milligan's demands for increasingly complex sound effects ( or ' grams ', as they were then known ) pushed the available technology and the skills of the BBC engineers to their limits — effects had to be created mechanically ( foley ) or played back from discs, sometimes requiring the use of four or five turntables running simultaneously.

The first unit on the market, the MZ-1 was relatively large and unpocketable, but following model, MZ-R2, and subsequent MD Walkmans are quite compact, with today's MiniDisc Walkmans not much larger than the discs themselves.

In 2004, Hi-MD was introduced, enabling computer files as well as CD-quality audio to be recorded on the discs for the first time.

* August 17 – The first compact discs ( CDs ) are released to the public in Germany.

He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on 3 July 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour ; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination.

An Oldham coupling has three discs, one coupled to the input, one coupled to the output, and a middle disc that is joined to the first two by tongue and groove.

Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD ( abbreviated as VCD, and also known as View CD, Compact Disc digital video ) became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs.

The film was available on Blu-ray for the first time in a Special Edition Combo Pack which included two discs, one Blu-ray copy of the movie, and another DVD copy of the movie.

On November 1, 2011, along with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Cars 2, Toy Story and the other two films were released on each Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / DVD / Digital Copy combo pack ( 4 discs each for the first two films, and 5 for the third film ).

The first two discs were also sold separately as The Hits 1 and The Hits 2.

Improved technology has seen the creation of the first vented discs for use on mountain bikes, similar to those on cars, introduced to help avoid heat fade on fast alpine descents.

Laughton's voice first appeared on 78-rpm records with the release of five British Regal Zonophone 10-inch discs entitled Voice of the Stars issued annually from 1934 to 1938.

* Audio quality: phonograph discs, Vitaphone's in particular, had superior dynamic range to most sound-on-film processes of the day, at least during the first few playings ; while sound-on-film tended to have better frequency response, this was outweighed by greater distortion and noise

Items range from radios produced by local manufacturers to the Vitaphone system used to cut discs carrying audio for the first " talkie ," The Jazz Singer.

The first three discs feature many alternate takes, demos and alternate mixes of the band's material, with the fourth containing the group's first two albums.