pctechguide.com

  • Home
  • Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Glossary
  • Contact

CDR-RW Mini Media

8cm CD recordable and rewritable media – offering a capacity of 185MB – have been available for a number of years. Most tray-loading CD players are already designed to handle 8cm disks, via a recess in the tray that is exactly the right diameter to accommodate a mini CD. Slot-loading CD drives – such as in-car players – some carousel multi-changers and laptop PC drives require use of a simple adapter to use the miniature format. Only PCs with vertical CD-ROM drives are unable to handle the format.

By 2000 the format was being used as a convenient means of storing digital music and images in some MP3 players and digital cameras, respectively. So confident were Nikon that the format would eventually replace the floppy disk that the company announced, in late 2000, that it had developed a process to produce media with an increased capacity of 300MB, whilst retaining record/replay compatibility with existing CD drives.

Mini

The mini CD format is also available in the so called business card CD variant. These are conventional CD-R media, re-fashioned so as to resemble business cards. This is achieved either by cutting off two sides of the disc only, or by trimming all four sides so as to create a truly rectangular shape. Their capacity varies from 20 to 60MB depending of how much of the disc has been cut off. The format is marketed as an affordable alternative to printed product brochures, more easily distributed and capable of presenting promotional material in a multimedia fashion, exploiting audio and video as well as text and images. Sometimes referred to as a Personal Compact Disk (PCD), it is can also be used as a means to provide secure access to private on-line membership or e-commerce services.

  • ISO 9660 Data Format for CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs
  • CD-R – Recordable Compact Disk
  • CD Rewritable
  • CDR-RW Mini Media
  • CDR-RW Digital Audio Media
  • CDR-RW Double Density Media
  • CDR-RW UDF File System
  • CDR-RW Multi-Read Technology
  • CD-ROM Burn Proof Technology
  • CDR-RW Disc Capabilities
  • CDR-RW Over-burning
  • CDR-RW Mount Ranier
  • CDR-RW DiscT@2 Technology

Filed Under: CD-RW

Latest Articles

SugarSync Review

SugarSync Review

PROS: SugarSync is very easy to use and install. CONS: Not all phones will be able to download SugarSync at this time. OVERVIEW: SugarSync is by far the most sophisticated of all synchronization programs. Covering PC, Macintosh and mobile phone users, the company has presented a full range of … [Read More...]

Outlook Express Backup

On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Maintenance tab, click Store Folder. Select the folder location and press CTRL+C to copy. Click Cancel and then Cancel again to close the dialogue box. Click Start and then Run. In the Open box, press CTRL-V to paste in the … [Read More...]

Handheld Organizer origins

The term handheld computer has been applied to a wide range of portable electronic devices over the years. Its origins can reasonably be traced back to the handheld electronic calculators which first emerged in the early 1970s. These were to lead to devices which boasted more than the usuals … [Read More...]

20 Cool Creative Commons Photographs About the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to have a huge impact on our lives. The market value for AI is estimated to have been worth $279.22 billion in 2024 and it … [Read More...]

13 Impressive Stats on the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to become much more important in our everyday lives. Many businesses are using it as well. While he has created a lot of … [Read More...]

Graphic Designers on Reddit Share their Views of AI

There are clearly a lot of positive things about AI. However, it is not a good thing for everyone. One of the things that many people are worried … [Read More...]

Redditors Talk About the Impact of AI on Freelance Writers

AI technology has had a huge impact on our lives. A 2023 survey by Pew Research found that 56% of people use AI at least once a day or once a week. … [Read More...]

11 Most Popular Books on Perl Programming

Perl is not the most popular programming language. It has only one million users, compared to 12 million that use Python. However, it has a lot of … [Read More...]

10 Exceptional Books on ChatGPT that Will Blow Your Mind

ChatGPT is a powerful new AI tool that is taking the world by storm. You are going to find a lot of amazing books that will teach you how to make the … [Read More...]

Guides

  • Computer Communications
  • Mobile Computing
  • PC Components
  • PC Data Storage
  • PC Input-Output
  • PC Multimedia
  • Processors (CPUs)

Recent Posts

Consumers should Consider 4G LTE

  Long Term Evolution, or for short is LTE, this a big breakthrough. This is a part of 4G or the fourth generation of the mobile … [Read More...]

New Transfer Feature in Dropbox Enable Sharing files with Third Parties

Dropbox has been a popular P2P sharing platform for many years. They don't announce new features as often as other applications, since they have a … [Read More...]

IVI Technology

Shortly after the introduction of Apple QuickTime, Intel responded with its Indeo Video Interactive (IVI or Indeo 4.0) … [Read More...]

[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2025 About | Privacy | Contact Information | Wrtie For Us | Disclaimer | Copyright License | Authors