1.   Although CD-ROMs look much like CD audio discs, they are encoded not with music but information which can be read and displayed by a computer.

2.   Many CD audio discs are already being sold with a hidden extra of words and pictures.

3.   CD-R audio discs can be played back on almost any CD player.

4.   Sony Corp. of Japan and Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands said they developed a next-generation audio disc which is compatible with the compact disc format.

5.   The DVD drive also loads software and plays audio discs.

6.   The same disc can be used for movies, computer programs and audio discs.

7.   The slot-loading DVD drive lets iMac DV owners use CD-ROM discs, play CD audio discs and even watch DVD movies.

8.   This is a hybrid audio disc and computer CD-ROM, a mix made possible because musical information commonly only occupies two thirds of the real estate on a disc.

9.   Dozens of renegade factories manufacturing illegal video and audio discs with imported equipment have set up shop in Guangdong.

10.   Shenfei had made the copies and other illegal audio discs for foreign businessmen who sold the products on Chinese and overseas markets, the news agency added.