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Every DVD and blu-ray player I've seen (with the exception of
portables) loads via an electrically driven tray or into a slot on the
front of the machine. While it allows you to put stuff on top of the
player in the cabinet, it requires power to eject the disk. Why is that
a problem? Well, if
you need to, say, return a rental movie, but your
power is out that whole day, you're going to end up with an overdue
fee (if your video store does that-blockbuster stopped doing that- so
this idea, itself may be overdue :)
The more likely problem these days with the proliferation of netflix
and blockbuster stopping late fees- say you just bought a new Blu-ray
player, and your old DVD player ended up in the basement or garage,
far from an outlet-but you left a disk in there! so you have to take
the thing off the shelf and carry it to an outlet just to get your disk
out!
So, as the title suggests, DVD/blu ray players should simply have a
crank or knob that MECHANICALLY opens the drawer or kicks the disk
out of the slot. Simple.
EHow: How to eject a stuck DVD/CD drive
http://www.ehow.com...ck-dvdcd-drive.html
The mechanism phundug remembers. [jutta, Feb 22 2009]
My solution
Top-loading_20everything
This seems to be baked in portable DVD players now. [nineteenthly, Feb 22 2009]
[link]
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So obviously simple, I was just thinking about this yesterday when I went to throw out an old CPU that died a few years ago and I never got around to getting rid of until now. I don't have the power cord for it anymore, and I had to pry open the tray with a knife, and, judging by the loud clicking sounds and stiff resistance, probably broke it, to check it for any disks that might have still been inside. I'm just glad it was already unsalvageable. |
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Edit: Bun rescinded, see my other anno further down for an explanation. |
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Why can't they have a hole next to the tray, like in old floppy disk drives, that you stick a paperclip into if you need an emergency eject? |
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Never needed an emergency eject when I had a floppy drive, so I don't remember any little hole like that, but it certainly sounds like a great idea. |
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Ah... thanks for the link, jutta! Just looked at my own CPU, and sure enough, there's a little hole there. That's what I love about this place... always learning something new. |
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They haven't all got holes. This laptop hasn't, for example, and one of the drives on the desktop PC downstairs lacks it. I still prefer my solution, because a little hole doesn't give so strong a hint as a flap on top with a handle on it. |
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As ninteteenthly so concisely states, not all drives have
paperclip holes-and they are generally only on computers,
and not even all computers have them. I've never seen a
music CD player or DVD player with a "paper clip hole" so the
"paperclip trick" does not apply to those! |
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Well, most CD players I've seen (except those in vehicles) *are* manually ejected. As shown in the link, most desktop computers have this, also. So, no, it's not in everything, because, naturally, brands differ in their mechanisms. This idea, then, is to implement existing technology more widely, which makes it advocacy. For this, I bone it. - |
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