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•That standard way is MultiRead. And any CD drive can play all CD media - CD-Digital Audio, CD-ROM, CD-R, and CD-RW - provided that it supports MultiRead.

•What is more, MultiRead extends the same compatibility to DVD. All DVD equipment that supports MultiRead will also be able to retrieve CD-RW data. This means that you can go ahead now with storing valuable data on CD-RW media, safe in the knowledge that it will be future-proof.

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Copyright acknowledgment: This part contain material from “OSTA - Optical Storage Technology Association”. Published with permission.

“Optical Storage Technology Association”

311 East Carrillo Street

Santa Barbara, CA 93101 - USA

Tel.: (805) 963 3853

Fax.: (805) 962 1541

World Wide Web homepage: http://www.osta.org

WHAT IS CD-RECORDABLE?

•CD-Recordable is compact disc technology that allows the user to create their own CD’s. This is done by means of a recording system that uses “Write once” type optical discs and documented in the “Orange Book, Part II” and a CD recording device that is connected to a host system.

Typically, the host system is a personal computer which also contains recording software.

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