Drusca <andrei@world.std.com> wrote:
quoted 2 lines I don't think the CR/BC/M packaging is that big of a deal. I've owned a> I don't think the CR/BC/M packaging is that big of a deal. I've owned a
> bunch of those CDs for years and I haven't had/seen any problems.
You've been exceptionally lucky. However cool those cases may look,
their design is shear idiocy: relying of the flexibility of the CD
to hold it to an inflexible metal post puts an enormous amount of
stress on it. The disc-distroying properties of these cases has been
reported here on many occasions, and I've personally had two discs
irretrievably damaged by storage in these cases.
The center post in these cases varies a bit in size -- I've seen some
where the disk just slips off, and others where the fit was so tight
that the disk arrived with a major crack.
Jewel cases are cheap, while some of the CR disks are nearly impossible
to find these days. I've moved all my CR CD's to the latter...
-Ed
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