Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD player suggestions needed (CD packaging) Message-ID: <551@spar.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:42:59 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.551 Posted: Mon Sep 30 13:42:59 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 20:44:50 EDT References: <264@mb2c.UUCP> <14700023@hpfcms.UUCP> <1377@hound.UUCP> Organization: The Institute for Impure Science Lines: 14 > [] > That new process that increases volume and lowers cost is > putting them in cardboard sleeves instead of "jewel boxes", right? > > Dick Grantges hound!rfg I wonder how much the lifetime of CDs would be compromised by such a change. Records can be scoured into garbage just by repeatedly being slipped into and out of cheap or dirty dust-jackets. I consider the "jewel box" packaging technique, which eliminates any need for abrasive contact with the recorded surface, to be one of the more clever, if less high-tech, aspects of the CD format. Baba Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com