This article answers the question on what is going on inside ones PC when they burn their CD-R’s and CD-RW’s. It describes how the laser beam at a temperature of over 300 degrees Celcius makes bumps into the blank CD-R giving it a 1 or a 0 which is how the CD player reads the music. After discussing how CD-R’s work, the article goes into how CD-RW’s work and how it takes a much higher temperature for the laser to erase the already made bumps in the CD. This article provides a good answer to an average user of CD-Burners question.
Hachman, Mark. “End of the Road for CD-burners.” Extremetech. Online. 23 Oct. 2002. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,646975,00.asp
This article discusses how CD-Burners have reached their limit as to how fast the cd’s are burned. CD-R’s and CD-RW’s are at the point where they can be burned at 48X faster than the music than is being burned meaning that an hour worth of music can be burned in less than a minute and a half. Production-wise there is no sense in creating a 52X cd burning speed because it would simply mean cutting down burning time by a matter of seconds. Therefore, this article states that although the technology is there to burn faster it is rather unnecessary and there is not enough demand to produce these super fast cd rewritable drives.
Harris, Tom. “How CD Burners Work.” Howstuffworks, Inc. 1998-2002. Online. 15 Oct. 2002. http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd-burner.htm.
This article goes step by step into how CD burners actually work. The article gives many diagrams to help the reader to better picture how the lasers actually burn into the CD. It is a difficult thing to imagine because all the burning is occurring on such a microscopic level but this article makes it easy for the reader to understand. This article is simply a How CD Burners work for Dummies but still manages to give a detailed description of the physics of burning CD-R’s and CD-RW’s..
PC Tech Guide. “CD-R/ CD-RW.” Online. 20 Jan 2002 http://www.pctechguide.com/09cdr-rw.htm.
This article describes how CD-R’s and CD-RW’s work and the difference between the two. It goes into great detail about the formatting of the two different styles of CD rewritable discs. Also, it discusses the history of burning CD’s and the future technological advances that CD burning has to offer. Basically, this article just gives a detailed description on how CD-R’s and CD-RW’s work and explains different issues involved with these two forms of burning CD’s.
Spector, Lincoln. “Cut your own CD’s.” PC World Magazine. Online. June 1998. http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,3925,00.asp
This article came out when CD burners were just starting up. Many people at this time did not have CD-burners on their PC’s which is very common now. It is very interesting to measure how much the speeds have increased since just 4 years ago and how far CD-burners have come since the late 90’s. Also, it is interesting to see how much the price for CD-RW’s have dropped (in 1998 they were $15 a piece) and how common CD-burners have become in the average Americans life in such a short amount of time.