Talk:CD-R
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Needs to be merged:
A CD recorder is a computer peripheral that writes data to a CD disk. There are two main types -- CD-R and CD-RW. CD-R is CD-Recordable. CD-RW is CD-Rewritable.
CD recorders are also known as CD burners. To record a CD is often called burning a CD.
MiB vs. MB
-I thought the 650MB CD-R stored 650MiB, not 650000000B: 333000sectors * 2048bytes/sector / 1024 / 1024 = 650.390625. see http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-6.
-Yeah, me too. CD-Rs seem to be measured in MiB (though they say MB as just about nobody uses the term MiB, while DVD-Rs seem to be measured in GB (not GiB).
- Yep. The reason why it says MB on Dan100's CDs is because the MiB terminology has not been adopted anywhere in the industry, thus the "(though MB is printed on CDs as the binary prefixes haven't caught on in the industry)" I added to the article. (odd that you would change it back to MB but not change that).
So, I suppose it would be possible to refer to it as a 650MB CD (though confusing, and we want to eliminate as much of that as possible in an encyclopedia, right?), but the way it was before I edited it "650MB (not MiB)" was flat out wrong. Psxer 08:08, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wuh? CDs, like any other storage media, are measured in megabytes. As said, these 'MiBs' have "not caught on in the industry", and they certainly haven't outside it, either. Dan100 19:02, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
I mean, I kinda see where you're coming from, but the bottom line is that MB is the accepted and universally-used terminology, for all its faults. Dan100 19:22, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
Oh and it's madness to use "650.390625", as that rounds to 650. You would no more say "650.390625" rather than "650" than, when asked by a collegue how far you travel in to work each day, you would say "19.74673 km" instead of "20 km". Dan100 19:26, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
burning pits?
it isn't burning pits into the dye; it's changing the color of the dye to make it less reflective, right? - Omegatron 05:30, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)