v Disc at Once:The drive writes to the entire disc in a single pass; data cannot
be added at a later time.
v Track at Once: The drive copies one track at a time to the disc.
v Multisession: The drive writes several sessions to a disc; each session has at
least one track.
Listed below are descriptions of different CD formats that appear in the table.
CD-Digital Audio: This format records audio CDs that can be played on audio
CD players.
CD Extra:This format records audio and data in a multisession format.
CD TEXT: This format records audio CDs with the album names and song
titles encoded.
CD-ROM (Mode 1): This format is used for most CD-ROM applications.
CD-ROM XA (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) or CD-ROM Extended
Architecture:This standard was created for playback of multimedia content.
CD-I (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) and CD-I Ready
used for home entertainment systems.
CD-I Bridge:This format records a combination of Kodak Photo CDs and
Video CDs that can be played on TV set-top players and personal computers.
Photo CD (single and multisession):This format records CDs that are playable
on TV set-top video CD players and most DVD systems.
7. The CD-RW drive does not have the necessary audio circuitry and decoding functions for CD-I
playback, but it can be read from and write to CDs in this format.
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:This format is