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Posted December 20, 2014
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hedwards: I take it you've never had a car with a turntable in it.
Ha! Joke's on you! I never even had a car! Ha! Ha ha... crap.
Post edited December 20, 2014 by F4LL0UT
Posted December 20, 2014
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monkeydelarge: I'm just trying to figure out why realkman666 said only retards use portable CD players in Canada.
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realkman666: Through scientific observation.
Why do you think only retards use portable CD players, where you live? OR is it just something you noticed and you don't know why.
Post edited December 20, 2014 by monkeydelarge
Posted December 20, 2014
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hedwards: I take it you've never had a car with a turntable in it. I'm still trying to figure out how it took so long for CDs to get anti-skip technology when they had turntables in cars decades earlier.
Without having ever encountered cars with turntables in them, I'd say the reason is that the turntable anti-skip mechanism was a purely mechanical one, while the cd one was a digital one. Having a piece of equipment remain static despite the movement of the vehicle it's in is relatively easy, but the CD anti-skip technology needed a larger buffer (still at a small enough package) and faster reading speed.

Off to go look if cars did have turntables in them, and which ones.
Posted December 20, 2014
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hedwards: I take it you've never had a car with a turntable in it.
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F4LL0UT: Ha! Joke's on you! I never even had a car! Ha! Ha ha... crap.
A bicycle with a turntable on it?
Posted December 20, 2014
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realkman666: Through scientific observation.
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monkeydelarge: Why do you think only retards use portable CD players, where you live? OR is it just something you noticed and you don't know why.
I don't explain it, I just witness it, puzzled.
Posted December 20, 2014
^ Sometimes I don't recognize my own reflection, too.
Posted December 20, 2014
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realkman666: Here, only mentally retarded people use them. I'm not even joking. See a retard, see a CD player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_SxCdADKQ
Posted December 20, 2014
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JMich: Having a piece of equipment remain static despite the movement of the vehicle it's in is relatively easy, but the CD anti-skip technology needed a larger buffer (still at a small enough package) and faster reading speed.
That's kinda paradox. The problem with skipping CDs was also a mechanical one and theoretically it could have been solved mechanically but obviously "having a piece of equipment remain static" must have been more complicated and/or expensive than adding the buffer.
Posted December 20, 2014
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NowaAnglia: ^ Sometimes I don't recognize my own reflection, too.
Why? Do you have brain damage?
Posted December 20, 2014
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JMich: Having a piece of equipment remain static despite the movement of the vehicle it's in is relatively easy, but the CD anti-skip technology needed a larger buffer (still at a small enough package) and faster reading speed.
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F4LL0UT: That's kinda paradox. The problem with skipping CDs was also a mechanical one and theoretically it could have been solved mechanically but obviously "having a piece of equipment remain static" must have been more complicated and/or expensive than adding the buffer.
Having a CD and the laser be static is much harder than having a vinyl record and the needle being static, especially due to the rotation speed (and margin of error). A small movement of the vinyl needle may not remove it from the record's groove, but the same movement on the laser will make it move to another CD "groove".
And from what I saw in the Highway Hi Fi, the vinyl was held in place with a central pin, but few CD audio equipment had that option.
Posted December 20, 2014
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NowaAnglia: ^ Sometimes I don't recognize my own reflection, too.
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realkman666: Why? Do you have brain damage?
Ha, ha! It happens to the best of us.
Posted December 20, 2014
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JMich: Having a CD and the laser be static is much harder than having a vinyl record and the needle being static, especially due to the rotation speed (and margin of error).
Exactly. Your previous post just made it sound like it was a mechanical vs a digital problem (while in case of CDs it was just a digital workaround for a mechanical problem).
Posted December 20, 2014
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realkman666: Why? Do you have brain damage?
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NowaAnglia: Ha, ha! It happens to the best of us.
Vodka purity does matter.
Posted December 20, 2014
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NowaAnglia: Ha, ha! It happens to the best of us.
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realkman666: Vodka purity does matter.
That's right. One should always be drunk.
Posted December 21, 2014
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hedwards: I take it you've never had a car with a turntable in it. I'm still trying to figure out how it took so long for CDs to get anti-skip technology when they had turntables in cars decades earlier.
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JMich: Without having ever encountered cars with turntables in them, I'd say the reason is that the turntable anti-skip mechanism was a purely mechanical one, while the cd one was a digital one. Having a piece of equipment remain static despite the movement of the vehicle it's in is relatively easy, but the CD anti-skip technology needed a larger buffer (still at a small enough package) and faster reading speed.

Off to go look if cars did have turntables in them, and which ones.
The correct answer is that they didn't, they were only for use when the car was stationary and probably turned off.

Sheesh.
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