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The Compact Disc Handbook
โ Scribed by Ken C. Pohlmann
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 368
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This is a new edition, in paperback, of Ken Pohlmann's classic survey of the compact disc world, The Compact Disc: A Handbook of Theory and Use, and celebrates the tenth birthday of possibly the most successful consumer electronics product ever introduced. The phenomenal success of the compact disc - currently over a billion copies are sold each year - has encouraged rapid development of compact disc technology and spawned entirely new applications for it. The text of this new edition has been thoroughly overhauled to take note of all these developments in addition there is more information on the laboratory origins of the compact disc and the principles underlying the format. It remains a comprehensive and authoritative handbook by an acknowledged expert on digital audio and related topics.This title is ordered from an overseas publisher and may take up to 45 days to ship. It is also subject to publisher availability. Allow a few extra days for delivery.
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EDITION FOR 2004/2005 CATALOGED AS A SERIAL IN LC
Derived from the Philips "Red Book" for Compact Disc Digital Audio (or CD-DA), IEC 60908 is the information necessary to read and create digital audio CD's, which is still, as of writing in 2019, overwhelmingly the most common format for audio CD's. This otherwise-copyrighted information is essen