What are all the available media formats?
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It’s easy to be bewildered by all the buzz words. CD-i, Video CD, Photo CD, CD-ROM XA, CD-i Bridge, DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10, DVD-18, etc. Unless you want to make a career in developing hardware to play all different kinds of digital media, you don’t really have to know too much about the technical details on all these formats. It’s always easier to understand the media formats through their logical usage, i.e. what they are used for. But if you really want to dig deeply into the details, there are a whole set of color coded standard books (Yellow Book, Red Book, Orange Book, etc) for your enjoyment. You can find all these from Philips website at www.licensing.philips.com/information/cd/.
