Finally: Less Easily Scratched CDs
from the just-as-everyone's-giving-up dept
Well, it's about time. If you remember when CDs were first coming to market, there were all these stories about how they were "indestructible." We were told that you'd be able to drive over them with a car and they'd still play perfectly. Obvious, that's not what we got at all -- so now that people are less and less interested in even using CDs for music or storage, someone finally comes up with a more scratch resistant coating for the discs. Seems a bit late.
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old old old news!
i.e.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6583
http://www.ioproducts.com/scratresdvme.html
http: //news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5513524.html
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Now I think that YOU must not know what you are saying.
So please, C3, explain to those of us who have a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules could conclude that scratch resistant CD's are 20 years too late?
Because I think it would be completely reasonable to have this scratch resistant technology at the beginning of the CD life cycle, and not at the end.
Of course, maybe you think that CD technology will be around us for a long time. In which case, you might be the 'pedantic' one.
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I hope you won't be too upset the first time you walk across your living room carpet in winter time to stick your solid state movie card into your solid state movie player and a 2" bolt of static electricity induced lightning jumps between the two and destroys both items.
I've personally already fried a desktop motherboard by dropping a Pocket PC into a docking cradle connected to the PC's USB port *and* a 512 MB SD card in my Treo 600 the same way.
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It helps significantly reduce static buildup on carpets and (if you like the scents available) can help reduce any potential odors as well.
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Besides, I think my mom used to do this.... yeah, that's the ticket.... my mom taught me. (with credit to Jon Lovitz' Saturday Night Live character)
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How well do they play?
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