Originally posted by Iceparrot
cloneCD images are defintely NOT ISOS.. they actually save more data than BINS.
ISO!=BIN!=CCD
they are all different.
I beg to differ

Basically, all CD copying programs grab raw sectors from the CD, and dump them to disk. They should do them as raw sectors, sized at 2352 bytes. This means the core image they create is basically the same data.
Now CloneCD has the option to grab Subchannel data, but it writes is to a seperate file, not the main image file (it calls it .sub, I think).
I've just noticed that CDRWin can also grab subchannel data (2368 bytes per sector), but I don't know how it writes that to disk.
The only program I have found that writes more data to the disk is the PlexManager 2000 Disk Dupe program, which seems to write some extra sectors from the beginning of the disk. You can see this with a hex-editor, and you can easily locate the start of the "normal" header.
I did some binary compares between CDRWin, PlexManager 2000 Disk Dupe, and CloneCD, and noticed that only Disk Dupe had extra info in the main image file.