BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:11 AM

It was modelled on the elephant hole

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:10 AM

To let the air out.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: matai
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:05 AM

So you can see through them.

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Grab
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 06:49 AM

"My cassettes just fit in a slot and play. Why do they need this tape stuff inside them - after all, they play without me needing to touch the tape?"

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 05:46 AM

Why are CD covers called 'jewel cases?'

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 05:36 AM

Presuming that the grooves on a CD (if indeed there are grooves?) and the laser?? works on the same principle as the old needle for LP's. Then, it is to be supposed that when it arrives at the hole in the middle, it stops!!

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Splott Man
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 05:29 AM

It's for your finger

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Peace
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 12:50 AM

CDs don't wear drawers. The go around neked.

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:05 PM

Hey, I didn't know the answer, either. I know that some CD players have spindles, but I didn't know the ones with drawers had 'em.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Dani
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:03 PM

So you can put them on your bulletin boards with push=pins. Very considerate design.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 10:31 PM

One should always know the answer to these questions before you ask them, noHj!
It makes you look less of an idiot.

ROTFLMAO

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 10:25 PM

So it can be snapped into the jewel case.

                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: open mike
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 09:49 PM

for target practice...
and to hang them in the cherry tree to keep birds away from the fruit

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 09:08 PM

and....it saves on plastic

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:38 PM

So you can see through to the other side, stoopid!

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:31 PM

And also the picture on http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/cd4.htm which shows the cup deal for the center hole. The CD has a variable rate of speed depedning where the reader is on the long spiral groove or series of bumps that makes up the data.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:27 PM

I believe it is for driving them round and round at a controlled rate of speed, without which they could not be read. The centering and driving device on some CD players is a cone-and-cup combination that sandwiches the CD through the hole.

See also How do CD Players Work


A

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:23 PM

"cd players have a slot that they fit in"

Ummm... no they don't... a CD is spun by fitting a 'spinner' into the centre hole... (gross! LOL)

Subject: RE: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:14 PM

nostalgia

or, maybe, neuralgia.

Subject: BS: Whats the Holes in CD's for then?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:09 PM

Plastic records needed a hole in the middle, to fit on the spindle of the record player, but cd players have a slot that they fit in, so waht are the holes in the middle of cd's for then?