[ale] Exploding CD?!?

[Jim Popovitch]

Thanks for all the responses.  I've learned quite a bit more about CDs
now, especially the speed at which they rotate.  The CD Player is a
generic brand that I picked up at CompUSA about 8 months ago. (one of
those ones with the big blue circular sticker on the white box).

For the interested, here is a pic of the CD pieces:
http://jimpop.net/exploding_cd.jpg  

-Jim P.

--- Ron <nottingham at alltel.net> wrote:
> Don't think it has too much to do with the CD-drive, but more the
> quality of the CD media and the balance of the CD media.  The company
> I
> work for also does CD duplication.  If the labels are not centered or
> the "paint" is not applied evenly, they will shatter in high speed
> CD-drives.
> 
> Ron N. - Dalton, GA
> 
> 
> Frank Zamenski wrote:
> > 
> > Jim, what brand of player was it? Maybe not fair since most are so
> > cheap now, but it'd be good to know anyway. After reading some
> > replies, maybe also it'd be a good idea to keep those things below,
> > or angled away from, eye level. (Sounds like a potentially badnews
> > hidden consumer issue here.)
> > 
> > 
> > From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at yahoo.com>
> > 
> > > I was sitting at home playing a video game (Red Alert 2),
> > > when all of a sudden the CDROM that was spinning in my
> > > CDROM player EXPLODED.  I know this may be hard to believe,
> > > but I have the ~10,000 pieces to prove it, not to mention
> > > the minor scars from fying shards.  Has anyone else ever
> > > experienced this?
> > >
> 
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