Rainbow Books
Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the formats of Compact Discs.
No rainbow book was applied to the popular DVD and Blu-ray formats.
- Red Book
- CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD-Text
- Yellow Book
- CD-ROM – Read-Only Memory
- CD-ROM XA, - An extension to Yellow Book
- Orange Book
- CD-MO – Magneto-Optical
- CD-R alias CD-WO or CD-WORM – Recordable, Write Once or Write Once, Read Many
- CD-RW alias CD-E – ReWritable or Erasable,
- The orange book standard references the fact that "Yellow" and "Red" mix to orange; which means that CD-R and CD-RW is capable of music and data; although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. Orange book also introduced the standard for multisession writing.
- White Book
- VCD – Video and
- CD-Bridge - Hybrid discs, e.g. CD-Ready,
- SVCD – Super Video,
- Blue Book
- E-CD – Enhanced,
- CD+ – ...
- CD+G – plus Graphics (karaoke) extended by CD+EG / CD+XG,
- Beige Book
- PCD – Photo
- Green Book
- CD-i – interactive,
- Purple Book
- DDCD – Double Density,
- Scarlet Book
- SACD – Super Audio.
- Black Book