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The Rainbow Books are a collection of CD
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''Red Book'' (1980)

* CD-DA (''Digital Audio'') – standardized as IEC 60908 ** CD-Text—a 1996 extension to CD-DA ** CD-MIDI—part of the original red-book standard ** CD+G (''plus Graphics'') – karaoke *** CD+EG / CD+XG (''plus Extended Graphics'') – an extension of CD+G


''Yellow Book'' (1983)

* CD-ROM (''Read-Only Memory'') – standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 in 1988 and ECMA-130 in 1989 ** CD-ROM XA (''eXtended Architecture'') – a 1991 extension of CD-ROM


''Green Book'' (1986)

* CD-i (''Interactive'')


''Orange Book'' (1990)

Orange is a reference to the fact that red and yellow mix to orange. This correlates with the fact that CD-R and CD-RW are capable of audio ("Red") and data ("Yellow"); although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. ''Orange Book'' also introduced the standard for multisession writing. * CD-MO (''Magneto-Optical'') * CD-R (''Recordable'') alias CD-WO (''Write Once'') alias CD-WORM (''Write Once, Read Many'') – partially standardized as ECMA-394 * CD-RW (''ReWritable'') alias CD-E (''Eraseable'') – partially standardized as ECMA-395


''Beige Book'' (1992)

* PCD (''Photo'')


'' White Book'' (1993)

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