@@hodayfa000h no, burning a CD burns the information onto it. You're copying onto it. Ripping a CD takes the information from it and puts it on your drive, so you're taking a copy of it. CDs don't usually have backups on them, but maybe you could do that? Can you partition a CD and make a backup drive on it?
@@kugelblitz1557 ah i see. But no i was referring to the fact if i remember correctly cds have some empty space that is backup for your data so if it gets scratched it can be recovered
Yeah, the laser can't actually distinguish a pit from a land, rather, a pit-to-land or land-to-pit transition is a "mark", while continuation of an existing pit or land is a "space". These still aren't the ones and zeros - a block of 17 (16 on DVDs) "marks" and "spaces" encodes 8 bits of raw data.
'Digital Versatile Disc' is actually a new name, originally it was 'Digital Video Disc', and now the correct name is just DVD- it officially doesn't actually stand for anything.
I see a lot of people call Blu-ray discs "CDs." I don't even bother to correct them because it’s so common. Funnily enough, they could just refer to all of them as simply "discs" and it'd basically be correct. But I guess we're stuck with CDs as the default. And sometimes DVDs, even if it’s a Blu-ray disc.
My wife and I were talking about burning CDs before and about six months later I was teasing my son about the video games he plays and he told at least he's not setting CDs on fire 😂 he literally thought people set CDs on fire for fun back in the day 😂😂
CDs? No, not really. They were an early format, and for their time they were impressive, but that goes for all revolutionary tech. They couldn't even hold a gigabyte of data, got damaged easily, and most were not rewriteable. Their also notorious for disc rot. DVDs and Blu-Rays on the other hand, those are technical marvels even today.
Iirc in cd-r discs there is a dye on it and it is quite literally burnt by the laser to appear darker. Rw has a metallic material which has different phases with different reflective properties
Excellent video. I'm a lover of physical media, so I have several dvd and blu-ray players. I actually rip movies and shows and store on an hard drive. Might someday start a NAS bc it seems like a fun project.
The pits and lands don't individually represent 1's and 0's. The changes between them count as 1's. So, a flat land or pit is a 0, but if you go from a pit to a land or vice versa, that's a 1. Watch Technology Connections' videos about CDs if you don't believe me.
yeah, the organic dye on normal CD-Rs are just one-time changable. CD-RWs have a metallic layer that can be altered again and again for a limited certain limited amount of times. Hence why certain CD drives (like many old Audio CD players) can't read CD-RWs but would read most CD-Rs just fine.
They do happen in CD-R discs in a similar way, except for the material being different. The CD-R uses a phase-changing permanent dye or AZO, where the CD-RW uses a phase-changing alloy metal, where it changes shape according to the temperature it's on.
@Mike-77-YT no it doesn't. Azo dye and other dyes on cdrs are essentially burned to be less reflective, not a phase change. Phase change metal layers on cdrw discs do not change shape, they change reflectivity based on crystal structure or lack thereof. There is no change of shape in the layer.
Note: At the end, the doodle that un-burned is a 0 and burned is a 1 is not correct. Instead, a 1 is actually either a transition from dark to light or light to dark, and a 0 is no transition.
While blank CDs/DVD/Blurays do use color phasing it doesn't actually create physical bumps. The color change prevents the laser from reflecting the laser back to the read head. Studio made discs (that you buy with data already on it) are pressed instead have the bump paterns pressed into the metal layer. The bumps still reflect the laser only it points it away from the read head. Also you get a higher picture quality from a 1080p or 4K Bluray than you do from 4k streaming. Many streaming services deploy compression to fake 4K so they can save Gigabytes on their server.
The term burning goes all the way back to PROM chips, which contained thousands of microscopic silicon fuses that would be literally burned opened or left alone to represent a 1 or a 0 bit. The terminology carried over to CD’s because like early PROMs they could only be programmed one time and it was permanent.
Burning can happen without flames. Might as well opened up by asking "Whys it called burning when we don't drop it into scalding water" I would say the laser is technically burning the thing but it's a shift and can be undone so I guess it isn't actually burning Still cool to learn tho
Circa 1998 I was 7 and that was the first time I had ever heard of burning a cd. My sister said she was going to a friends house to “burn a cd”. When I heard that I thought she was going to put a store bought disc over a flame which would erase its contents and allow her to record something else on it
How does it actually work when burning a CD? As far as I know the bits aren't coming from different colors, but destructive interferenve of reflected waves at the poibt when a valley starts. So the edge is a "1" while bo edge means normal rwflection and is treated as a "0". Is the pattern burnt in?
I remember thinking, growing up, that 'burn cd' on our computer would destroy the CD. Not actually burning it, mind, I wasn't quite that stupid, but rendering the disc unplayable.
what happens if you use Bacon Grease instead of thermal paste: day 59of asking? Also, a new request. What happens if you use maple syrup in your liquid cooler: day 25 of asking
I remember when I was a kid being babysat by my cousins, one of my cousins yelled down the stairs at my other that she was gonna burn his cds real quick. I was like why would she do that?!
The first 3 seconds reminded me of playing job simulator as a gourmet chef when the owner asked me to burn a cd for his proposal (i burned it on the grill)
Ever Since I was a kid in elementary school in 2003-4-5, our family got a pc & learned about burning copies. I never questioned it & figured/assumed it was because your “burning” / inscribing data with a laser? Just over exaggerated slang for a laser. Which im all for btw. You know, cause lasers in a lot of sci-fi pop culture PEW PEW!!burn? & irl too.. Even a magnifying glass or anything that bends light towards one point burns. But idk. We’ll see the video says. I also knew it involved lasers because I heard the term LASER DISC…& someone had told me somewhere that the disc readers use lasers n crap. That’s about it. I wonder if people actually assumed things were being burned lol. But hey I never totally looked it up or became savvy about lasers. We’ll see. I’m hoping I’m wrong and learn a lot from this short. I wish all shorts were at least slightly educational even when comedic. But I mean actually funny.
Burning CD = Making a copy
Ripping CD = Taking a copy.
The first few times I ripped a CD I was afraid it would copy the files over but wipe the CD in the process 😂
No difference???
Like the cd has copies in it to make it recover and that "rips" it???
@@hodayfa000h no, burning a CD burns the information onto it. You're copying onto it. Ripping a CD takes the information from it and puts it on your drive, so you're taking a copy of it. CDs don't usually have backups on them, but maybe you could do that? Can you partition a CD and make a backup drive on it?
@@kugelblitz1557 ah i see.
But no i was referring to the fact if i remember correctly cds have some empty space that is backup for your data so if it gets scratched it can be recovered
so we're torturing a cd?
"Why is it called burning a CD, when--"
*Proceeds to use a dvd*
lol
What’s the difference
@@Torch73269 DVDs are pink or blue
DvDs are used for video, and CDs are for music or audio. I think?
@@MBiz. No, you can use both for either purpose. DVDs are a different format than CDs and they have more storage.
Fun fact: on CDs/DVDs, the pits and lands don’t determine what is a one or zero, but rather the transition between them
Yeah, the laser can't actually distinguish a pit from a land, rather, a pit-to-land or land-to-pit transition is a "mark", while continuation of an existing pit or land is a "space". These still aren't the ones and zeros - a block of 17 (16 on DVDs) "marks" and "spaces" encodes 8 bits of raw data.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Someone’s A+ certified grats
"Why is it called burning a CD"
*"Burns" a DVD*
The concept is the same.
Copied
It does catch on fire for 1 sec
DVD is a CD because it's the same form factor, a compact disc, now I've gone crosseyed!😅
You don’t need to be that guy. It’s literally exactly the same thing
"Whoops! You have to put the CD in your computer."
cd's nu-
Not up my a-
"Select our big blue brick book, and sign in please!"
"You have to put the cd UP YOUR AS-"
Lego island was awesome
A CD is a “compact disk”
A DVD is a “digital versatile disc”
The main difference between the two is storage size and how data is stored.
So many people confuse the two, purely because they're the same size.
Digital Video Disc
@@StevieCooper no, it is called Digital Versatility Disc. They aren't just for videos you know.
'Digital Versatile Disc' is actually a new name, originally it was 'Digital Video Disc', and now the correct name is just DVD- it officially doesn't actually stand for anything.
I see a lot of people call Blu-ray discs "CDs." I don't even bother to correct them because it’s so common. Funnily enough, they could just refer to all of them as simply "discs" and it'd basically be correct. But I guess we're stuck with CDs as the default. And sometimes DVDs, even if it’s a Blu-ray disc.
Day 44 of asking you to use another cpu instead of thermal paste
he did it
@@REALBLOXIEwhere
@@REALBLOXIE lol that's right
@@nogrammer yea
reverse themal paste D:
My wife and I were talking about burning CDs before and about six months later I was teasing my son about the video games he plays and he told at least he's not setting CDs on fire 😂 he literally thought people set CDs on fire for fun back in the day 😂😂
Damn your mixtape is pretty fire ngl 🔥
it's lit \o/
"why is it called burning a CD"
_proceeds to literally burn a DVD_
As someone who has like 50 physical Xbox games, I can confirm that CDs are a very good format
Never thought of it that way Sir. Thank you for expanding my thinking horizons
None of the Xbox consoles use CDs. The OG Xbox and Xbox 360 use DVDs, Xbox One and Series S/X use Blu-rays
@@heavy0119 shut up nerd
DVD, you're thinking of the DVD
CDs? No, not really. They were an early format, and for their time they were impressive, but that goes for all revolutionary tech. They couldn't even hold a gigabyte of data, got damaged easily, and most were not rewriteable. Their also notorious for disc rot. DVDs and Blu-Rays on the other hand, those are technical marvels even today.
Iirc in cd-r discs there is a dye on it and it is quite literally burnt by the laser to appear darker. Rw has a metallic material which has different phases with different reflective properties
Excellent video. I'm a lover of physical media, so I have several dvd and blu-ray players. I actually rip movies and shows and store on an hard drive. Might someday start a NAS bc it seems like a fun project.
Have tons of films on DVD myself. Have moved slightly to digital for some releases, but I still have my discs.
Dvds arent that old tho?
Day 1 asking if its possible to boot a dvd player to its bios
Spoiler: you can't
@@muscletype2Spoiler: i did
@@speedwavekingaltchannel530 proof?
That first bit hurt my soul
*draws the entire script of the bee movie*
i had minor heartburn when watching this video
Love your videos
The pits and lands don't individually represent 1's and 0's. The changes between them count as 1's. So, a flat land or pit is a 0, but if you go from a pit to a land or vice versa, that's a 1.
Watch Technology Connections' videos about CDs if you don't believe me.
The disc shown in the video is a DVD, not a CD.
How can you see that?
@@Greydonkey. The color, CD are more green in the back
@@elesobrad1926 I've seen CDs without that
Newspapers and CDs have two things in common, you rip and burn them
You can read them, and write on them✍. And you can poke your finger through them.👉
That beam quality of these dvd lasers are so good too lmao
When I was a kid, I was scared to press "burn the cd" button because I thought it would actually start a fire 😂
I always loved the fact that one of the most used cd burning programs was called Nero, like the emperor that burned down Rome
Holy shit 7 year old me was right about CDs being like records and the consoles being the needle
It's so simple yet complex.
Technically you are burning it in a microscopic way with lasers. The phase change has to happen somehow and heat is the way to go
You can do that without burning something
@@henrysanecdotes5323could you explain?
@@NANA-j1l2b Things can change color without burning
@@henrysanecdotes5323fair point... Then you also know CDs can turn bad when exposed to UV light
Just put a single dot on a cd or dvd to cause some crazy things happen
PHASE CHANGE ONLY HAPPENS IN CD-RW DISCS, NOT IN CD-Rs.
yeah, the organic dye on normal CD-Rs are just one-time changable. CD-RWs have a metallic layer that can be altered again and again for a limited certain limited amount of times. Hence why certain CD drives (like many old Audio CD players) can't read CD-RWs but would read most CD-Rs just fine.
Not true
@@nogrammer look at the first reply.
They do happen in CD-R discs in a similar way, except for the material being different. The CD-R uses a phase-changing permanent dye or AZO, where the CD-RW uses a phase-changing alloy metal, where it changes shape according to the temperature it's on.
@Mike-77-YT no it doesn't. Azo dye and other dyes on cdrs are essentially burned to be less reflective, not a phase change. Phase change metal layers on cdrw discs do not change shape, they change reflectivity based on crystal structure or lack thereof. There is no change of shape in the layer.
That first clip of someone actually burning it is hard asf
As a cd, it hurts when you burn us. That’s the real reason
Note: At the end, the doodle that un-burned is a 0 and burned is a 1 is not correct. Instead, a 1 is actually either a transition from dark to light or light to dark, and a 0 is no transition.
Day 26 of asking for molasses as thermal paste
"Pretty neat huh?"
Pretty *heat* some would say
The fact that One of the original apps to burn roms was called after nero, who burned a rome, is my favorite tech trivia
Nero Burning Rom. Nero Burning rome... omfg
Not color.
Reflect ability
Ive heard its not actually the bumps and divots that represent ones and zeros, but when they switch
I miss those days
I almost threw my phone outta my hand with anger! 😡
my favorite part answered the question.
While blank CDs/DVD/Blurays do use color phasing it doesn't actually create physical bumps. The color change prevents the laser from reflecting the laser back to the read head.
Studio made discs (that you buy with data already on it) are pressed instead have the bump paterns pressed into the metal layer. The bumps still reflect the laser only it points it away from the read head.
Also you get a higher picture quality from a 1080p or 4K Bluray than you do from 4k streaming. Many streaming services deploy compression to fake 4K so they can save Gigabytes on their server.
I’ve never really looked into *how* information is actually read off of CD’s or how sound comes from records. To me that shits just magic
Technology is literally wizardry.
Like seriously it’s IRL wizardry.
The term burning goes all the way back to PROM chips, which contained thousands of microscopic silicon fuses that would be literally burned opened or left alone to represent a 1 or a 0 bit. The terminology carried over to CD’s because like early PROMs they could only be programmed one time and it was permanent.
"Why is it called *burning* a CD?"
**proceeds to burn a Verbatim DVD-R** lmao
Burning can happen without flames.
Might as well opened up by asking "Whys it called burning when we don't drop it into scalding water"
I would say the laser is technically burning the thing but it's a shift and can be undone so I guess it isn't actually burning
Still cool to learn tho
"Oh Damn"
Guy's last words after being obliterated by a dam
The chemical layer of the CD is changed by the heat from the laser, thats why its called burning.
I was afraid to burn my CD in my childhood as I thought my CD case was gonna turn into a burning frypan
Its always hilarious how people finding the way of storing info in 1 and 0
A childhood questions of mine is finally answered and can rest
Circa 1998 I was 7 and that was the first time I had ever heard of burning a cd. My sister said she was going to a friends house to “burn a cd”. When I heard that I thought she was going to put a store bought disc over a flame which would erase its contents and allow her to record something else on it
Damn haven't heard that term for a long time. This brings back memories 😂
the burning man is here
Actually having a disc drive that could burn them was the hard part
That's actually so cool!
A vr game known as Job Simulator has a joke where you literally "Burn a Disk"
Burning… by laser
Wrong pale snake
No blow through the molten plastic, make a big long bubble.
Legoman” whoops you burned the cd from your computer
cds are red?
they are read, as in when you read a book in school
@@slav4335 well yeah it was a joke about the captions cuz the captions said red
It still amazes me that Code can be turned into sound.
How does it actually work when burning a CD? As far as I know the bits aren't coming from different colors, but destructive interferenve of reflected waves at the poibt when a valley starts. So the edge is a "1" while bo edge means normal rwflection and is treated as a "0". Is the pattern burnt in?
There are also no bumps on a burned disc.
Background music ?
DVD Disc: STOP BURNING ME BRO.
They way he holds the CD, hurts me at an astronomical level.
Day 147, asking to use honey in place of thermal paste
It literally came out hot.
Can you do a video on how hard disk drives work?
Same sample as Cam Meekins’ “Rolling Stone”
It's like when you create burning in genshin but theres no fire
You know, CD-ROM burning was probably a lot of peoples first experience with using a computer to make a physical product
The first example was not called burning, but destroying.
As an early Gen Alpha (2010-2025), I completely understand what burning a DVD is.
You can even burn pirated games!
Don't burn using fire
Burn using software
How often can u burn/edit them? Changing the bumps would give it a limit dont it?
Remember how you used Nero to burn CD's? Nero burnt rome, that's where the software got its name.
I remember thinking, growing up, that 'burn cd' on our computer would destroy the CD. Not actually burning it, mind, I wasn't quite that stupid, but rendering the disc unplayable.
oh, so you weren't supposed to take a lighter to CDs? I'm in debt now
When I was a kid I thought it burns your CD so everything stored in the CD will be gone lol
what happens if you use Bacon Grease instead of thermal paste: day 59of asking? Also, a new request.
What happens if you use maple syrup in your liquid cooler: day 25 of asking
when did you transition from torturing cpus to explaining tech science
That is not the explanation of how 0s and 1s are determined.
Fun fact: laser is burning surface of the disk, literally burning plastic.
BINARY SHELL SHOCK 😱
Who thought of Sambucha when he said "Pretty neat huh?"
I remember when I was a kid being babysat by my cousins, one of my cousins yelled down the stairs at my other that she was gonna burn his cds real quick. I was like why would she do that?!
You used to be able to write / delete snd rewrite to a cd , how many times can you do this before the cd is no good?
The first 3 seconds reminded me of playing job simulator as a gourmet chef when the owner asked me to burn a cd for his proposal (i burned it on the grill)
The reason is called burning, is because when the drive finishes writing data, the cd came out hot…
when i was a kid i was afraid when i saw burn cd thinking that the cd would actually burn or spin fast so that it'll burn
Plus, how would they stop it from moving back?
Ever Since I was a kid in elementary school in 2003-4-5, our family got a pc & learned about burning copies. I never questioned it & figured/assumed it was because your “burning” / inscribing data with a laser? Just over exaggerated slang for a laser. Which im all for btw. You know, cause lasers in a lot of sci-fi pop culture PEW PEW!!burn? & irl too.. Even a magnifying glass or anything that bends light towards one point burns. But idk. We’ll see the video says.
I also knew it involved lasers because I heard the term LASER DISC…& someone had told me somewhere that the disc readers use lasers n crap. That’s about it. I wonder if people actually assumed things were being burned lol. But hey I never totally looked it up or became savvy about lasers. We’ll see. I’m hoping I’m wrong and learn a lot from this short. I wish all shorts were at least slightly educational even when comedic. But I mean actually funny.
this makes me feel old
A higher space is not a 0 and a low one not a 1. Instead, no transition is a zero and a transition is a 1.
However in an m-disk the laser is literally etching Rock inside of the disc
I just always thought that the writer was literally (but without the fire) burning the bits and bytes into the CD. Kind like branding.
My friend did this to sell his mixtapes.
I remember trying the other kind of burning and CDs melt. Like the video game sound effects tho