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MadMax
08-20-2001, 10:45 PM
Is CD-ROM-XA a disk you buy or is it a format that's burned onto a CD-R?
glc
08-22-2001, 01:04 AM
CD-ROM XA
"XA" stands for Extended Architecture. CD-ROM XA is an extension of the Yellow Book standard, generally consistent with the ISO 9660 logical format but designed to add better audio and video capabilities (taken from the CD-I standard) so that CD-ROM could more easily be used for multimedia applications. CD-ROM XA was abandoned as an independent multimedia format, but Photo CDs are written in the CD-ROM XA physical format.