Later, when the CD-R is played back, the CD-R is now actually a CD-ROM. The burner's laser blinks rapidly on and off, heating tiny areas of the bottom of the disc which expand into bubbles that closely resemble the stamped pits of a CD-ROM. In a similar way, your CD-R burner uses laser-light bursts during your recording sessions to create tiny bubbles in the tracks around the CD-R.
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Store-bought pre-recorded CD-ROMs use tiny pits or holes arranged in the tracks of the disc to encode the music, video or game software that you play. Instead they were mechanically stamped or pressed, like the old-fashioned vinyl LP albums.
The CD-ROMs you buy in stores are not recordable. However, the music or software CD-ROM is a "compact disc - read only memory". (1) How are CD-Rs different than store-bought CDs?Ī CD-R is a blank "compact disc - recordable".
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