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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD format specifications, generally written and published by the companies involved in their development, including Philips, Sony, Matsushita and JVC, among others.
A number of these specifications have been officially adopted by established standards bodies, including the ISO, IEC, and ECMA.
Red Book (1980) Template:AnchorEdit
- CD-DA (Digital Audio) – originally published by Philips and Sony in 1981,<ref name="redbook">Template:Cite book</ref> it was later standardized as IEC 60908:1987<ref name="IEC1987">Template:Citation</ref> and later IEC 60908:1999.<ref name="IEC1999">Template:Citation</ref>
Yellow Book (1983) Template:AnchorEdit
- CD-ROM (Read-Only Memory)<ref name="infoworld1994">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> – originally developed by Philips and Sony,<ref name="cdrom">Template:Cite book</ref> it was standardized as ISO/IEC 10149<ref name="iso-cdrom">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 1988 and ECMA-130<ref name="ecma130">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 1989
- CD-ROM XA (eXtended Architecture) – a 1991 extension of CD-ROM, developed by Philips and Sony<ref name="cdxa">Template:Cite book</ref>
Green Book (1986) Template:AnchorEdit
- CD-i (Interactive) – standard developed and published by Phillips.<ref name="cdi">Template:Cite book</ref>
Orange Book (1990) Template:AnchorEdit
Orange is a reference to the fact that red and yellow mix to orange. This correlates with the fact that CD-R and CD-RW are capable of audio ("Red") and data ("Yellow"); although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. Orange Book also introduced the standard for multisession writing.
- CD-MO (Magneto-Optical)<ref name="cdmo">Template:Cite book</ref>
- CD-R (Recordable) alias CD-WO (Write Once) alias CD-WORM (Write Once, Read Many) – originally developed by Sony and Philips,<ref name="cdwo">Template:Cite book</ref> it was partially standardized as ECMA-394.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- CD-RW (ReWritable) alias CD-E (Eraseable) – originally developed by Philips, Sony and Ricoh,<ref name="cdrw">Template:Cite book</ref> it was partially standardized as ECMA-395.<ref name="cdrw2">Template:Cite book</ref>
Beige Book (1992) Template:AnchorEdit
- Photo CD (Photo) — proprietary standard jointly developed by Philips and Eastman Kodak;<ref name="photocd1">Template:Cite book</ref> never released to the public<ref name="photocd2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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White Book (1993) Template:AnchorEdit
The White Book refers to a standard of compact disc that stores pictures and video.
- CD-i Bridge<ref name="cdib">Template:Cite book</ref> - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs.
- VCD (Video) – a standard jointly developed and published by JVC, Matsushita, Philips and Sony.<ref name="vcd">Template:Cite book</ref>
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Blue Book (1995) Template:AnchorEdit
The Blue Book is a compact disc standard that defines the Enhanced Music CD format, which combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc.
- E-CD/CD+/CD Extra (Enhanced)<ref name="ecd">Template:Cite book</ref> – a standard jointly developed and published by Microsoft, Philips and Sony
Scarlet Book (1999) Template:AnchorEdit
Scarlet color of this book is a reference to the Red Book, which defines original CDDA.
- SACD (Super Audio)<ref name="sacd">Template:Cite book</ref> – a standard jointly developed and published by Philips and Sony
Purple Book (2000) Template:AnchorEdit
A standard developed by Philips and Sony in the late 1990s, with over 1 GB in capacity and recordable/re-recordable capabilities.<ref name=oscd>Template:Cite book</ref>
- DDCD (Double Density) – divided in three separate specifications:
- DD-ROM (Double Density Read-Only)<ref name="ddcd1">Template:Cite book</ref>
- DD-R (Double Density Recordable)<ref name="ddcd2">Template:Cite book</ref>
- DD-RW (Double Density ReWritable)<ref name="ddcd3">Template:Cite book</ref>
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- ISO 9660, a 1986 filesystem standard used in conjunction with CD-ROM formats.
- Orange-Book-Standard, a decision named after the Compact Disc standard, issued in 2009 by the German Federal Court of Justice on the interaction between patent law and standards
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