Standards
- Compact Disc, an optical disc used to store digital data
- Red Book (CD standard), the original means of playing back audio on the medium
- 5.1 Music Disc, an extension to the red book standard that uses DTS Coherent Acoustics 5.1 surround sound
- Super Audio CD, a format which competes with DVD-Audio
- MP3 CD, a disc that contains MP3 files in Yellow Book format rather than converted from MP3 to Red Book format
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Famous quotes containing the word standards:
“The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.”
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