Dynex DX-ECDRW200 Guide De L'utilisateur page 17

Glossary 17
—Finalization is the permanent closing of the writing procedure on a
Finalization
CD. After finalization, it cannot be written to, regardless of whether it was pro-
duced as a single-session or a multi-session CD.
—A book of CD Interactive (CD-I) standards published by Philips and
Green Book
Sony in 1986.
—The forerunner of today's ISO Standard 9660. It was published in
High Sierra
1986. With the passage of time it has lost its significance.
—A CD-ROM disc storing "two different platforms of software" for
Hybrid Type CD
Windows and Macintosh etc.
—The term "image" describes all edited data that will later be located on a
Image
CD. The creation of an image file is known as premastering.
—ISO Standard 9660 describes the construction of a CD-ROM, so that it
ISO 9660
may be read and processed by different types of operating systems.
—This supplement to the standards comes from Microsoft and is supported
Joliet
by Windows 95 and Windows NT. The CDs that are created under this standard are
in conformity with ISO 9660, which allows long file names based on Unicode, in
additional directory structures.
—Music and computer data are stored on one CD with this type
Mixed Mode-CD
of CD. The computer data are generally located on track 1 and audio data are
located in the ensuing tracks.
—A CD which is written in several sequential sessions is known
Multi-Session-CD
as a multi-session CD.
—A process for burning data onto a CD-R. There are two different
On-The-Fly
methods of doing this. With the classical and older method, all of the data which
is to be recorded onto the CD is first stored in a buffer, in a large file known as an
image file. From there, the data is copied or burned onto the CD-R. In contrast to
this, the method known as On-The-Fly transfers the data directly from its original
memory location on a hard drive onto the CD-R.
—The Orange Book is a physical format of recordable CD announced
Orange Book
in 1989 by Philips and Sony. The Orange Book describes CD-MO in part-I and CD-R
in part-II. Later on part-II was updated. In 1994, version-II was announced for the
CD-ROM and its double speed type. In 1996, the standards for phase change opti-
cal disc; rewritable CD (CD-RW) was added as part-III.
—A CD format and system devised by Eastman Kodak to record digi-
Photo-CD
tized photograph data.