green book cd-rom

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green book cd-rom - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Green Book CD-ROM
  
     A standard CD-ROM format developed by Philips for CD-i.
     It is ISO 9660 compliant and uses mode 2 form 2 addressing.
     It can only be played on drives which are XA (Extended Architecture
     ) compatible.
  
     Many Green Book discs contain CD-i applications which can
     only be played on a CD-i player but many others contain
     films or music videos.  Video CDs in Green Book format are
     normally labelled "Digital Video on CD"
  
     Green Book was obsoleted by White book CD-ROM in March 1994.
  
     (1994-11-02)