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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1996-06-28  |  786.4 KB  |  276x186  |  10fps  |  25 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: Information in a computer is stored as thousands of zeros and ones called bits. On a CD-ROM, bits are represented by microscopic holes and bumps called pits and lands. When a laser beam is reflected off of these tiny hills and valleys into a photodiode, they turn into an electrical pulse that a computer recognizes as a stream of zeros and ones, thus recreating words, images, and sounds.