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How It's Made - Compact Discs

Postby Ian on Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:08 am

I'm not sure if you guys watch How It's Made on the Discovery Channel, but they have an episode showing how compact discs (CD's) are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofy6J3tS5Cs
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Postby algrinch on Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:54 am

100,000 per day in just one factory, and I thought 3 minutes a cd at home was pretty fast.
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Postby SkaarjMaster on Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:15 am

.....and then the discs are abused by consumers.;)
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:03 pm

I've seen this done in person, it's pretty cool :D
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Postby aviationwiz on Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:31 pm

Saw the video last night, but forgot to post here. Wow, that's awesome!
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Postby Wischmop on Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:40 am

Nice, but my english is not good enough to understand it all
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