A Real-time, High Resolution, PC-based System for Measurement of Errors on Compact Discs

Abstract

The new writable Compact Discs (CDs), such as the CD-R and Kodak's PhotoCD, are physically different from pressed CDs (such as CD-ROMs and Digital Audio Discs) and data marks are written on them with an entirely different physical process. Therefore, it is possible that the nature and statistical characteristics of errors that contaminate data carried by writable and pressed CDs will be quite different. This subject is addressed in an invited talk that is being presented at this conference. [1]