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A Brief History of the Compact Disc

A Compact Disc is a digital storage medium using an optical disc. While originally developed for audio recording and playback, later in life it found use as storage for all kinds of digital data. Sony was the first brand to openly demonstrate their optical audio disc technology in the late 1970's. In the eighties, compact discs became commercially available, which began the war with audio tape and vinyl. The Compact Disc ultimately emerged the winner of audio formats, only to be replaced themselves by solid state memory storage devices.

Standards and Formats

Standard sized Compact Discs are 1.2 mm thick with a diameter of 120mm. The original storage capacity of a CD was 680 MB or 74 minutes of audio. Currently 700 MB of data or about 80 minutes of audio is what one would typically encounter. However, larger sizes do exist. Also available are smaller Mini CD's which can vary in both size and playback time, but the most common ones are 80 mm in diameter or approximately 3 inches. These hold 24 minutes of audio or 210 MB of data.

In 1979, Sony and Philips collaborated on new ways to make the CD a more efficient storage and playback device, further refining technology started almost five years previous in Sony's case. In a sense, it was this team that "invented" the CD as we know it today as one of the world's most reliable forms of audio playback. One of the first developments to come from the coalition was the Red Book, which defined standard specification for the CD format. Among other details, it sets out the specific guidelines for playback length, deviations, error rate, modulation, and so on.

Becoming commercially available in 1982, the first album to be mass produced on compact disc was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, which was released at the same time as Sony's CD player CDP-101 in October. In subsequent years, CBS music continued to honor the anniversary by releasing several albums on Compact Disc every year on the same day.

Reception

For audiophiles of the time, the new Compact Disc seemed to be a dream come true. It was highly praised as the superior method of playback by classical music connoisseurs who were one of the first groups to really get behind the new trend. As the 1980's progressed, the price of CD players slowly fell allowing the format to gain mainstream popularity, especially in the rock and pop categories. By 1989, almost a half billion CDs were manufactured on a yearly basis.

Data and Video on the CD

While it was originally intended as an audio format, the Compact Disc found use as a data storage method for computer programs. In June of 1985, the first CD-ROM was created for use in computers. A few years of progress later saw the development of CD-Recordable (originally called CD-WO) and eventually CD-RW, allowing consumers to record whatever they wanted onto the discs.

In 1987 the CD-V (Compact Disc - Video) was introduced using laser disc technology on a CD format to create moving pictures. The fatal flaw, however, was that there was simply not enough room for the necessary video data, and the format quickly fell into decline, disappearing completely by 1991.

Don't confuse the CD-V with the VCD though. A VCD, or Video Compact Disc, is a more successful video format on CD that was created in 1993. Like audio CDs, a VCD holds either 74 minutes or 80 minutes of video and its quality is roughly the same as a VHS tape. Most DVD players are capable of playing VCDs but VCD players were also manufactured and quite popular in certain parts of the world - especially China and some other Asian countries.

Time continues to march on, however, and the Compact Disc is slowly getting left in the dust. Since the advent of solid state MP3 players, large label CD sales have consistently dropped. The CD still has a place in the computer world, however as an inexpensive way to store data. Though the road has been long, the story of the Compact Disc isn't over yet.

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Audible Forensics offers audio transfer services and can digitize a variety of analog audio formats such as standard cassettes, microcassettes, reels, and even 8-track tapes. We also provide audio forensics services.

how to transfer videos off my video camera to my computer?

Compact S-VHS Camcorder
GR-SXM37US
thats the model that i have please help me.
i plugged it to the computer with the 4 pin thing but nothing happened
its a jvc

s-vhs is an analogue video source and will not easily go int your computer. you will need an analogue to digital convertor and i would suspect a firewire lead and card to suit your computer.

hope it helps.

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The Great Format War - DVD-A Vs SACD

The consumer is being faced with the most difficult decision with regard to consumer electronics since the days of VHS vs Betamax. A person would spend hard earned money on one fearing that their choice was to be the one that fades away with time - creating the necessity to buy a new machine and new tapes.

Yes, that same difficult decision between two competing technologies is here with the DVD-A and SACD. Will it be DVD-Audio or the SACD that has a bright future as the primary audio format? What… you never heard of either the DVD-A or SACD? Perhaps you once heard of one, but not the other? Most people aren't familiar with either format and probably will never be. Yet both have been around for more than a decade now. Yes, I was being sarcastic above - but take a trip over to Ebay and do a search for "DVD-Audio" and "SACD" and you will find a number of familiar artists on the unfamiliar formats.

In all likelihood, neither DVD-A nor SACD will ever have much of a following. They have both failed in the consumer market and most people with DVD-A and/or SACD players and discs are audiophiles. Prerecorded SACD music releases rose a bit last year (2010) but are still down quite a bit since their peak years ago. Most SACD releases however are not new music releases but older titles being reissued for the audiophile audience.

It seems that multichannel audio formats are doomed to fail every time. The general public loves stereo, plain and simple - at least when we're not talking about audio for visual media.  Back in the 1970s quadraphonic flopped. Remember the quad 8-tracks? There were also quadraphonic reel-to-reel tapes and even quadraphonic records called Quadradiscs. The newest multichannel failures are DVD-A, SACD, and probably BD-Audio too. Yes, that means Blu-ray Audio Disc. There is now such a thing.

DVD-Audio

DVD-Audio which is also commonly called DVD-A is a high fidelity digital audio format. Though an extension of the DVD family it does not cover video delivery. DVD Audio first came on the scene at the turn of millennium and is still in use by a few people today.

The much higher capacity of a DVD allows them to support considerably more music with no loss of quality or vastly increased quality with large amounts of information being able to fit on a single disc.  On top of the increased quality and quantity the DVD-Audio format also offers additional channels for multi-channel effects. Unlike the CD, DVD-A supports everything from mono to 5.1 channel surround sound. The compact disc, on the other hand, only held stereo recordings. If mono music was to be recorded to CD it would have to be converted to "stereo" by having 2 channels with identical material. Multichannel recordings were not possible.

SACD

Super Audio CD more commonly called SACD was developed by Sony and Philips as a High Fidelity audio format for optical media and can support dual channel stereo recordings and multichannel surround sound recordings. It has been designated as the scarlet book standard as opposed to the red book standard for the traditional Compact Disc. Sony and Philips introduced it in 1999 and were also the companies that collaborated on the original compact disc standard. The original CD has been superseded and surpassed in capacity, fidelity, dynamic range and stereo imaging by SACD.

As mentioned above the SACD can record audio in both Stereo and Surround Sound and uses a method called PDM to store the information but can also use PCM (the more common way of storing audio digitally - used for the CD, DAT, digital telephone systems, etc). The discs are dimensionally identical to a standard Compact Disc and have the same density as a DVD. It can also stream data at an uncompressed rate of 5.6 Mbps, with a sampling rate of 2.8224 MHz and at a resolution of 1 bit. That is 4 times faster than the Red Book CD.

What the Format War Means to Consumers

Nothing! At least for most of us.

What does it mean for the consumer when a format war takes place between mutually incompatible technologies or proprietary formats? The competition for the same market space can create a bit of pain and grief for the consumer that picks the losing side. Basically the only thing a consumer can do is to try doing a little research on their own. See how many companies are backing each player and how much the format seems to be spreading. With regard to DVD-A and SACD though, there are numerous "universal" players that can handle both DVD-A and SACD, as well as other formats such as CD and even BD-Audio.

With the advancement of traditional hard drives and now solid state drives we probably won't have to worry too much about lots of new and incompatible audio formats warring with each other in the future. But then again, have you noticed how many digital audio file formats are out there already? At least they're often somewhat easy to convert to other file formats - even if without an improvement in quality that's promised by a new file format - a kind of backwards compatibility.

Both DVD-Audio and SACD offer a higher level of quality and supersede the familiar Compact Disc. Both formats are able to handle multichannel surround sound recordings and both types of player are backward compatible with CDs. With the emergence of hybrid players that can handle both formats the war turned into more of a glaring contest as both formats stalled, unable to grab any real market share beyond the small community of audiophiles. Consumers have basically been turning to the MP3 and other compressed digital file formats rather than buying all new equipment and physical media like CDs and cassettes.

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Audible Forensics provides forensic audio and audio transfer services to the general public and professionals and agencies within the criminal justice system. We also provide cassette repair services for your old micro, mini, & standard cassettes and also Elcaset tapes. We also offer the following services: convert cassette to CD, voicemail retrieval, and CD/DVD repair.

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