The Philips CD-i (Compact Disc Interactive) is an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by the Dutch electronics manufacturer Royal Philips Electronics N.
Blu-ray
Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
Optical disc drive
In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs.
Ripping
Ripping is distinct from simple file copying, in that the source audio or video often isn't originally formatted for ease of use in a computer file system; ripping such data usually involves reformatting it and optionally compressing it during the extraction process.
Mini CD
Mini CDs, or "pocket CDs", are CDs with a smaller diameter and one third the storage capacity of a standard 120 mm disc.
Phonograph cylinder
Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.
Compact Disc Digital Audio
Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA) is the standard format for audio compact discs.
Direct Stream Digital
Direct-Stream Digital (DSD) is the trademark name used by Sony and Philips for their system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD).
Digital Audio Tape
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.
Digital Compact Cassette
The Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette.
Ultra HD Blu-ray
Ultra HD Blu-ray is a digital data storage format.
Double album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs.
Soundstream
Soundstream Inc. was the first audiophile digital audio recording company, providing commercial services for recording and computer-based editing.
Dynaflex (RCA)
Dynaflex was a trademark for a thin, lightweight vinyl LP record introduced by RCA Records in late 1969.
Dynagroove
Dynagroove is a recording process introduced in 1963 by RCA Victor that, for the first time, used analog computers to modify the audio signal used to produce master disks for LPs.
Run-length limited
Run length limited or RLL coding is a line coding technique that is used to send arbitrary data over a communications channel with bandwidth limits.
Edison Disc Record
Edison had previously made only phonograph cylinders but decided to add a disc format to the product line because of the increasingly dominant market share of the shellac disc records (later called "78s" because of their typical rotational speed) made by competitors such as the Victor Talking Machine Company.