Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!concert!bigblue.oit.unc.edu!gibbs!rosenz From: rosenz@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Gary Rosenzweig) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Double-sided CDs Date: 6 Mar 1994 21:24:02 GMT Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2ldhli$k5s@bigblue.oit.unc.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: gibbs.oit.unc.edu I tested out this idea once. Way back before CD-ROMs, when music CDs were new, I used to work in a record store. I asked the same question: why not double-sided CDs? So we had a whole rack full of defective CDs that customers had returned - in those days there were a lot more faulty CDs. Most of these CDs, however, would work in a CD player different from whatever the customer had. So I took two CDs (I think they were the two disks from Genesis: Three Sides Live0 and stuck them label-side to label-side with very thin double-sided tape. We put them in the CD player and it worked. It played whatever side was facing down. So anyway, I was told that the reason that they didn't make them double-sided was that with the error-level so high on production, doubling it by using both sides would mean that there would be too many faulty CDs produced. Don't know if that's true, or if it applies today. Gary Rosenzweig