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Rotating plastic that relies on sensitive optics? I mean, that sounds fragile when you put it like that, but in reality you can go to any thrift store and pick
by einr 8y ago
Rotating plastic that relies on sensitive optics?
I mean, that sounds fragile when you put it like that, but in reality you can go to any thrift store and pick up a 1988 CD player and a 1982 CD and it will more than likely play perfectly. CD transport and decoding has been a solved problem for literally decades. CD is very, very robust as long as you handle the discs like an adult.
- marcosdumay 8y agoPerfectly is overstating it. You could take a CD pressed in 2002 directly from the store into a reader and many of the data blocks would already be corrupted. Audio CDs last for a while because they are not lossless. Data CDs have a lot of redundancy to try to fix that, but even then don't last for very long.
- MivLives 8y agoUnless your 1982 CD has rotted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
- luigibosco 8y agoBy "as long as you handle the discs like an adult" do you mean that dance you get to do while you hold the disc with your fingers around the edges, while you search for the case that either the little plastic ears broke off of so it doesn't hold the disc or the other cardboard case that scratches the disc when you put it in?