[sdiy] OT: CD explosion

[jbv]

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...