HP Pavilion Glossary of terms CD-RW

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Glossary of terms CD-RW

THE BEST WAY TO CREATE YOUR OWN CDs - WITH

RE-USABLE CD-RW.

•CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) gives you the opportunity to create your own CDs, in the best and most cost-effective way. CD-RW is, in fact, the logical extension of CD- Recordable (CD-R). Together, they give you the opportunity to run the media that best suits the job in hand.

•CD-RW supports the recording of small packages of data, using incremental packet writing in the universal (UDF) file format. As with floppy discs, you have the option of writing a disc all at once, or building it up bit by bit - and re-using the disc later for other data.

•CD-RW media can be rewritten hundreds, or even thousands of times. This means that the overall running costs, for hardware and software together, can be very economical indeed.

•CD-RW will greatly extend your personal short-term storage capacity, providing space for large-volume files like Internet downloads, backups, and hard disc dumps. It is also excellent for low-quantity multimedia applications, from one-off disc testing to small-scale distribution

MULTIREAD: MAKING CD-RW MEDIA COMPATIBLE WITH CD- ROM AND DVD-ROM.

•CD-RW media reflects less laser light than the other CD media. To play all CD media, drives must be able to adapt to these different reflectivities.

•For compatibility, drives need to do this in a standard way. They also need to interface and interact with their host computer systems in a standard way.

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