Handbook for Sound Engineers, 4th Edition

Chapter 30

Optical Disc Formats for Audio Reproduction and Recording

by Ken Pohlmann

30.1 Introduction

30.2 CD Specifications

30.2.1 Pit Track

30.2.2 Data Encoding

30.2.3 Subcode

30.2.4 EFM Encoding

30.3 CD Player Design

30.3.1 Optical Pickup

30.3.2 Data Decoding

30.3.3 Signal Reconstruction

30.4 Other CD Formats

30.4.1 CD-ROM

30.4.2 CD-R

30.4.3 CD-RW

30.5 Super Audio CD

30.5.1 SACD Specifications

30.5.2 Direct Stream Digital Coding

30.6 DVD Disc Format

30.6.1 DVD Disc Manufacturing

30.6.2 DVD File Format and Coding

30.7 DVD-Video

30.7.1 Audio Contents

30.8 DVD-Audio

30.8.1 File Organization

30.8.2 Contents and Features

30.8.3 Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)

30.9 Other DVD Formats

30.10 HD DVD Format

30.11 Blu-ray Disc Format

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