Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV impression and marketing (NOT!) Keywords: cdtv marketing Message-ID: <1991May29.011017.24698@ncsu.edu> Date: 29 May 91 01:10:17 GMT References: <2842a61b.2a48@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 21 In <2842a61b.2a48@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mhuang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( Hunter*** ) writes: >Once again, aelric@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (John S Schroder) declares... >% >% What I definitely did NOT like was the way you inserted a CD into the CDTV > > The main thing to keep in mind is that CD-ROM's > are quite delicate, more so than regular CD's. A small scratch that would > be overlooked on a CD would be disastrous to a CD-ROM. > [...] > If you look at most, if not all CD-ROM's, they have this "feature." Yes they do, altho I believe that CD drives also have the head set up to simply focus past most (many? all?) scratches. I'm no expert on this tho. In any event, I was told this is why (consumer) CD-I players won't require those plastic caddies: because they're a royal pain. One would assume that they tested this method, and had no troubles. We'll see, eh? :-) OTOH, aren't caddies cheap enough that a person could just buy one for each CDTV disc? That would seem like an easy solution. - kevin