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In the two decades that followed the initial CD-press conference in 1979, the optical storage industry had grown up. A complete family of CD formats has been defined and developed. There were read-only, write once and rewritable discs on the market. The price of these discs had gradually come down to very affordable levels. Many suppliers offered popular optical disc drives. The CD family was well know, all over the world, and very successful

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van Haaren, J. et al. (2009). BLU-RAY DISC. In: Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc. Philips Research, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9553-5_6

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