Overview
- Survey of important optical storage standards and formats
- Gives a unique overview of the history and evolution of digital optical storage
- Contains key technical contributions of Philips to optical storage
Part of the book series: Philips Research Book Series (PRBS, volume 11)
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About this book
In March 1979, a prototype of a ‘Compact Disc (CD) digital audio system’ was publicly presented and demonstrated to an audience of about 300 journalists at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This milestone effectively marked the beginning of the digital entertainment era. In the years to follow, the CD-audio system became an astonishing worldwide success, and was followed by successful derivatives such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, and recently Blu-ray Disc. Today, around the thirtieth anniversary of the milestone, it is taken for granted that media content is stored and distributed digitally, and the analog era seems long gone. This book retraces the origins of the CD system and the subsequent evolution of digital optical storage, with a focus on the contributions of Philips to this field. The book contains perspectives on the history and evolution of optical storage, along with reproductions of key technical contributions of Philips to the field.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc
Book Subtitle: Contributions of Philips to Optical Storage
Authors: Hans Peek, Jan Bergmans, Jos van Haaren, Frank Toolenaar, Sorin Stan
Series Title: Philips Research Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9553-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9552-8Published: 14 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8154-4Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9553-5Published: 28 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1571-5671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 316
Topics: Electrical Engineering, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, History of Science, Information Storage and Retrieval, Computer Applications, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing