The History Of Compact Disc Media
Computers & Technology → Multimedia
- Author Roberto Sedycias
- Published May 25, 2008
- Word count 606
A typical CD will have a diameter of just 12 cm and about 80 minutes audio data can be stored on it. Smaller CDs are also manufactured for storing single songs (called CD singles). They are 8 cm in diameter and can store 24 minutes of audio data.
The major research and development work was done by Phillips and Sony. One of the first CDs came in market way back in the year 1982 and till date, remains one of the most popular mediums of audio recordings.
In 1979, Phillips and Sony started off a joint working group in order to design a successful digital audio disc. After a year`s work and lot of experiments and discussions, the compact disc was invented. No single person can be said to have invented it, a large group collectively invented the compact disc.
In August, 1982, the first CD for commercial purposes was manufactured in a Phillips factory in Germany. The first music title that was released on a CD was The Visitors (1981) by ABBA
. Soon after, in October of the same year, the CD players from Sony also reached the markets. The event is often called as the Big Bang
in the field of digital audio.
The new concept was an immediate hit in the market. Consumers were enthusiastic about the quality of the audio on the CDs. The price of CD players sank really fast, as a result of which, the popularity increased even more.
A Compact Disc is a 1.2 mm thick polycarbonate plastic disc weighing around 16 grams. To make the surface reflective, a very thin layer of aluminum is applied on one side of the disc. A film of lacquer is also applied to act as a protective shield. The label is printed on the other side using normal printing methods like offset or screen printing. The data is stored on a CD in form of an array of tiny indentation called pits that are encoded in a spiral track. A pit is just 500 nm wide and 100 nm deep and the length varies from 850 to 3500 nm. The areas between two pits are called lands.
The CDs are much more durable than the precious formats of audio storage. However, they can be damaged a little from the environment factors and daily usage. The data is a lot closer to the label side, so more damage occurs if scratches are made of the label. The logical format to store audio data on a CD is a 2-channel 16-bit PCM encoded data at a sampling rate frequency of 44.1 KHz. The sampling rate was chosen directly as a result of the sampling rate theorem of double frequency needed in recordings. With some more calculations, the exact sampling rate of 44.1 KHz was decided.
The CDs are available in a number of different variations. Some of them are:
CD Text - Compact Disc that allows for the storage of information like song name, artist, album name as text along with the standard audio data on the CD.
CD Graphics - These contain additional graphics data on the CD. They run normally on a normal CD player, but can output graphics data when played on a CD+G player.
CD ROM - ROMs or Read Only Memory, as the name suggests are for the CDs from which data can only be read.
Video CD - Video CDs or VCDs are CDs with video data.
Photo CD - it was designed by Kodak for storing photos digitally in a Compact Disc. They were able to store more than 100 images when first launched.
CD + RW - these are CDs on which data can be written, erased and re-written more than once.
This article can be accessed in portuguese from the Article section of page http://www.polomercantil.com.br/multimidia.php
Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for http://www.polomercantil.com.br
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