CD & DVD Recording For Dummies
Chapter One
Optical Storage: It's All in the Pits
In This Chapter
* Defining the disc
* Understanding how stuff is saved on a disc
* Examining the insides of CD and DVD drives
* Understanding the different types of optical media
* Comparing tape, disks, and hard drives with CD and DVD
* Checking your system requirements
* Saving different types of stuff
* Taking care of your discs
When's the last time you really looked at a CD? I mean really stared at it,
in rapt fascination? Believe it or not, CDs used to be enthralling!
CDs and DVDs are now both staples of the technical wonderland that you and
I live in. Unless you're older and you were around long before 1980 - the
days of disco, Charlie's Angels, and Rubik's Cube - you won't remember the
lure of the compact disc. In those dark times, before the introduction of CDs,
music lived on huge, clunky vinyl albums. Computer software was loaded on
floppy disks. Movies? They were kept on videotapes. (Remember those?)
At first, this situation wasn't a bad one - at least until you kept these old-fashioned
storage media for a year or two. Suddenly, you ... read full excerpt from CD & DVD Recording For Dummies ebook
