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Sony's 'father of the CD' dies unexpectedly after being smeared with jam

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Started 3 years ago by rickwestwell
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rickwestwell

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More soon.

Only makes sense if you remember the original hype on Tomorrow's World etc where they said these amazing things called CDs would even work after being covered in jam or squeezed through a dog, and stuff.

Actually, I'm the only one who remembers that. Maybe the story should be:

'Man who invented CD' dies, is reincarnated as almost identical but slightly better quality 'Man who invented Blu-Ray'

Never mind. Anyway, don't forget your egg hunt. :-)

Posted 3 years ago #
Pinhead

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I was one click away from saying, "oi cheeky twat, some one else has done the egg hunt gag", then thought I'd better check.

Posted 3 years ago #
FormerlyAlOPecia

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Super - I remember it well - wasn't John Cleese roped in to promote them at some stage?

Posted 3 years ago #
Des Custard

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I remember it, but I wouldn't have thought you were old enough Rick. Pint please.

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I remember the original tommorows world thing where they spread jam on a CD, now every time I'm at a certain friends house and a CD skips or sticks due to a stray fingerprint, we all turn to each other and say in a mocking tone "spread jam on it", it never fails to raise a chuckle in that house. So five stars from me.

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rickwestwell

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I watched it on youtube of course, Des. ;-)

Thanks all.

Pints all round.

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brownpaperreporter

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Bizarrely me and Mrs BPR were talking about it last week, Michael Rodd was the culprit. It wasnt the jam that was the problem, it was toasting them over a fire first

Posted 3 years ago #
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I well remember what it was like as a kid in the early eighties...mass unemployment, riots In the City and not one format for recorded music that could withstand being smeared with preserve.

"This is the modern world", I say to my son. "All mod cons!"

He thought people had always been able to smear music recordings with marmalade, nutella etc...

I guess setting sons straight is one of the duties of parenthood.

There's still some jam in my vinyl collection, though...

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rickwestwell

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Yes, I'm sure I can remember eating trifle on vinyl, back in the day...

Have you ever tried rubbing marmite into your mp3 collection? My wife left me for a month, last time she caught me at it.

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brownpaperreporter

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I had something, possibly jam right at the end of Grinding Halt by The Cure. Consequently the track never did what it said, as it always popped back ... several needles later ...

Posted 3 years ago #
Screenie

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One of the first albums I bought on CD was 'This is the modern world'. It never did play properly.

Posted 3 years ago #
beau-jolly

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Sadly I am old enough to remember the Tomorrow's World report. The years have evidently not been kind to my cognative capasity. I could have sworn they said you could spread peanut butter on it and it would still play.

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Screenie

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Only smooth though, obviously.

Posted 3 years ago #
A Wagonload Of Monkeys

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Could he not be resuscitated with toothpaste? Or is it just an urban myth that toothpaste fixes scratched CD's?

I have many minty fresh CD's in my collection that still don't play properly.

Posted 3 years ago #
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Ah, Minty Fresh and the toothoids - I remember them well.

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