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What kind of problems might occur if you tried to use an older CD-ROM drive or a CD player to play a CD-R or a CD-RW disk?

On a CD disk, is data written in concentric circles or in a continous spiral trak?

Can CD hold videoa data?(Explamation)

What does the X factor of a drive indicate? What is the specification of oneX?

These are two of several questions i cant find on Yahoo! search-i found alot, but i cant find others

Answer 1

Wow, those are a lot of good questions...

O-K.
1)What kind of problems might occur if you tried to use an older CD-ROM drive or a CD player to play a CD-R or a CD-RW disk?

Some older drives can't recognize a CD-R or CD-RW.
The best bet is that when you are "burning a CD-R or CD-RW that you will use on an older drive (or player), make sure to finalize or "Close" the CD. Older drives can't read a CD that is still "Open". The only problem with this is that once the CD is closed, you can't write to it any more.

2)On a CD disk, is data written in concentric circles or in a continous spiral trak?

A combination of both.
A CD burner starts on the most inside trak and writes a complete circle until it finds the begining of the circle, then it moves up one space and writes another circle, working its way toward the outside. You can tell this by looking at different CDs that you have burned. The ones with more data will have more burned area toward the outside of the disk.

3) Can CD hold videoa data?(Explamation)

Yes, but not in "DVD" format.
You can copy any type of media file to a CD (mpeg, mov, avi, wmv, whatever) as data, but to play these files, you would have to open the files on you PC with a media player.
BUT... You can use some files (mpeg2 / mpeg4, I believe?)
to create a VIDEO-CD that will play on most DVD players.
A VIDEO-CD in NOT a DVD, and it does not require a DVD+R to be created. You can burn a VIDEO-CD on to a regular writable CD.

4) What does the X factor of a drive indicate? What is the specification of oneX?

The X factor, I like that!
The X stands for "times", like multiplication.
1X = the absolute slowest.
4X = 4 time "normal" speed.
16X = 16 times "normal" speed
And so on.
Obviously, the higher the"X Factor", the faster the drive will
Read / Write / Erase-ReWrite.

By the way...
1x for a CD means 150 KB per second
1x for a DVD = 1.35 MB per second

I hope this helps!

Good Luck, and Happy Surfing!

Answer 2

the X factor indicates the speed of the drive/burner. 2x burner can burn a disc twice as fast as a 1x burner.

Answer 3

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