Transcription: CD-ROM XA is really one of the more complex subjects we have to deal with in the consumer market, and it's difficult to boil down to a simple explanation, but I'll give it a shot. There are basically three components to XA. One is the way data is recorded on the disk itself. The other is special firmware that must be available in the drive. And the third is a special processor that has to be available to the CPU. The purpose of XA was originally to create a mechanism for CD-ROM publishers to synchronize specifically video and audio signals so that specifically when a talking head in video spea ...
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