If you want to know how CD reading and writing is done on a hardware level, there is an interesting channel on YouTube called Technology Connections where a lot of the history of CD is discussed in a pretty accessible way. There’s also lots of videos on rather obscure technology like the CED, a vinyl video format.
I remember how amazing these products were when I first saw them, how expensive they were, and how I thought about all the amazing things I could do if I could make my own CDs ( and then DVDs and then Blu-Ray ).
I haven’t had to burn a disk in years, and this past week I actually had to buy some DVD-Rs! I will be appearing in court and need to burn some dash-cam footage to DVD so it can easily be played in the courtroom. They don’t want to deal with video on thumb drives, etc.
If you want to know how CD reading and writing is done on a hardware level, there is an interesting channel on YouTube called Technology Connections where a lot of the history of CD is discussed in a pretty accessible way. There’s also lots of videos on rather obscure technology like the CED, a vinyl video format.
I remember how amazing these products were when I first saw them, how expensive they were, and how I thought about all the amazing things I could do if I could make my own CDs ( and then DVDs and then Blu-Ray ).
I haven’t had to burn a disk in years, and this past week I actually had to buy some DVD-Rs! I will be appearing in court and need to burn some dash-cam footage to DVD so it can easily be played in the courtroom. They don’t want to deal with video on thumb drives, etc.