[sdiy] OT: CD explosion

[Steven Downhill]

	>Seriously : I remember clearly seing on TV around 1976-77 a
	>documentary about the future of music recordings in which a
	>guy (probably from Philips) demonstrated a CD made of some
	>soft & flexible material and that looked at lot like those analog
	>flexi-discs... The points he was making was that digital recording
	>would keep hi-fi quality forever (since there was no physical
contact
	>between the disc and the player), and that the soft material would
	>allow users to do whatever they want with the disc (I clearly
	>remember his words : even write on it or fold it in your pocket)
	>without destroying a single bit of info on it...

They said similar things with CDs when they first became available in the
early 80s.
I always remember a guy on Tomorrow's World (that was a UK TV technology
show in case any of our foreign colleagues don't know) who was explaining
how CDs were virtually indestructable and did a demonstration of this by
rubbing a CD vigorously with sand paper before playing it.
Of course we all know different now as the slightest bit of dust can cause
the laser to skip tracks and they are prone to rusting if left in damp
conditions.

I think similar things were said about laser discs and of course these are
even worse than CDs as if you bend the disc it can actually break the
pressed metal foil contained within it.

Anyway I'm going way OT so I shall stop there.

Regards
Steven

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jbv [SMTP:jbv.silences at club-internet.fr]
> Sent:	27 August 2003 18:06
> To:	edu.audiolist at terra.com.br
> Cc:	synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject:	Re: [sdiy] OT: CD explosion
> 
> 
> 
> Edu Silva a écrit:
> 
> > From: "Steven Downhill" <Steven.Downhill at brother.co.uk>
> > >
> > > I opt for all CD-Rom drives to be made out of Kevlar and Titanium and
> > > be encased in bullet proof glass.
> >
> > Better yet: all CD's would be made of some soft and flexible stuff, like
> > the old computer floppy disks. No injuries if such CD reach you. :-)
> >
> 
> Seriously : I remember clearly seing on TV around 1976-77 a
> documentary about the future of music recordings in which a
> guy (probably from Philips) demonstrated a CD made of some
> soft & flexible material and that looked at lot like those analog
> flexi-discs... The points he was making was that digital recording
> would keep hi-fi quality forever (since there was no physical contact
> between the disc and the player), and that the soft material would
> allow users to do whatever they want with the disc (I clearly
> remember his words : even write on it or fold it in your pocket)
> without destroying a single bit of info on it...
> 
> When you compare this with the CDs they released 10 years later,
> you bet that some ppl at music companies quickly realized that
> selling discs that would remain intact forever wasn't the best
> marketing strategy...
> 
> JB
> 
> PS : well, this is probably more OT than the rest of this thread,
> simply because I didn't read it...
> 
> 
> 
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