The non-Standard CD R
CD R, simply meaning Compact Disc – Recordable, is ones of the technologies in the past decades that have changed the way we store information. This is the digital way of storing information in bits of ones and zeroes. Once upon time vinyl and such discs were used to store a short store of music and such information. Today, although the CD R has become a bit obsolete in the presence of DVD and the more costlier, BluRay DVD, we still have the CD being used in many situations when single albums are being sold only in the audio format for the consumer use, or softwares small enough to fit into the 700 MB storage limit of the CD R.
There are a couple of standards for the CD design and the storage capacities. Most of these are based on the storage making it unreliable for consumers to depend on CD with more capacity than, at the most, 800 MB. These CD Rs are not of the industry standards. When the technology was developed by Philips and Sony, there was good effort made to make this mode of technology store as much information as possible. They found that the CD Rs around the capacity of 700 MB are the most reliable. In fact, these are only possible due to further compression of the particles on the disc into the space available.
So, any user trying to use a higher capacity CD R on their player which seems to play the non-standard disc, are taking a risk.
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