Computer Music & Digital Audio
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Book 5
The compact disk has been growing in popularity since it was launched in the early 1980s. This book sets out to explain the technical aspects of CDs, the design and construction of CD players, advice on buying a CD player and on caring for the machine and the disks themselves. The author also considers the future expansion of the CD format into CD-video, CD-ROM, data storage, and recordable CDs.
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.
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.