“Burning” a CD means copying it. Idk why. I used to have someone in my family who would burn movies for everyone so we didn’t have to pay to rent or own.
I haven’t thought about burning CDs in a long time, man that takes me back. Remember Nero Burning ROM?
I think the etymology of the term is that when you’re writing data onto a disk you’re shooting a laser onto it to alter the chemistry and change its color, for which “burning” the data into it makes sense.
It wasn’t the colour, you would burn little bubbles into the disk. The bubbles would deflect a laser and flat parts would not. This would give the 0 or 1 bits.
There were CD- and CD+ versions. I don’t know which is which but one would create a divot, and the other would create a bubble. Either way the laser is diverted away from the sensor.
Burning was originally used in the sense that to write to a disc you used the laser to “burn” in your data, at least irrc. It just started to be used interchangeably for copy and write operations. These days I think “rip” makes more sense.
What?
“Burning” a CD means copying it. Idk why. I used to have someone in my family who would burn movies for everyone so we didn’t have to pay to rent or own.
Am i this old now 😂
It is sort of surreal to see someone so young they don’t know what burning a CD is in an article about a game older than CD burners.
Burning is writing a disc. Ripping is extracting data from a disc. Whoever wrote the article used lingo they don’t understand.
I knew it had to do with putting data on a disc. I didn’t know the specifics.
I haven’t thought about burning CDs in a long time, man that takes me back. Remember Nero Burning ROM?
I think the etymology of the term is that when you’re writing data onto a disk you’re shooting a laser onto it to alter the chemistry and change its color, for which “burning” the data into it makes sense.
It wasn’t the colour, you would burn little bubbles into the disk. The bubbles would deflect a laser and flat parts would not. This would give the 0 or 1 bits.
There were CD- and CD+ versions. I don’t know which is which but one would create a divot, and the other would create a bubble. Either way the laser is diverted away from the sensor.
Ah, that’s what it was! I always thought it was just a different color for 0 and 1, today I learned! That makes more sense when I think about it.
CD - red laser
BlueRay - blue laser… shorter wavelength --> more data on same size disk
and inbetween there was DL - dual layer
light scribe - could etch a picture on the top of the cd
and RW - rewriteable CDs
(CD is short for compact disc)
Burning was originally used in the sense that to write to a disc you used the laser to “burn” in your data, at least irrc. It just started to be used interchangeably for copy and write operations. These days I think “rip” makes more sense.