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A few years ago, a VHS cassette i was using got stuck inside a dying VCR and it was impossible to get it out without dismantling the latter, and it ended up getting destroyed in any case. Today, a borrowed CD disappeared inside an optical drive that proceeded to die and i now have to work out how to
extract it without damaging it so i can give it back to the person who lent us it. On another occasion, someone found their in-car cassette player would no longer eject a particular cassette and they were actually forced to take the car apart to get it out, damaging the vehicle irreparably in the process.
All of this is not good.
Therefore, i have to ask the question, why are devices never top-loading now? If they were, and ejectable by mechanical means alone, it would seem to make it a lot less annoying. Someone please enlighten me.
As an idea: devices which are currently front-loading and powered by electric motors should be top-loading and ejectable and insertable mechanically.
Top loading DVD player
http://www.reviewce...m/reviews83183.html
available in Asda for about seventeen quid. [Ian Tindale, Apr 18 2006]
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By 'top loading', do you mean 'device with a mechanical eject'? |
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I read a car stereo manual that was a classic of badly translated Japanese. After telling you that you should only insert cassettes with the tape wound firmly on the spools, it warned: "Beware of tape salad!". This has since entered my vocabulary, being a brilliant description of what often happens. |
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What i mean is a hinged door which allows one to remove the media inside, which does not lock. It wouldn't inevitably be on top, but if it is, gravity rather than a tray would be used to bring optical media close to the laser. Also, the last resort would be to lift the door and remove the tape salad (brilliant metaphor [wagster], i wonder if it exists in Japanese). |
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//actually forced to take the car apart to get it out, damaging the vehicle irreparably in the process.//
Wow!, they must really know nothing about cars!. Don't most car stereos simply come out in one lump with pin connectors as the interface to the speakers and power?.? |
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This would remove the ability to stack A/V components. |
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It wouldn't necessarily do that because the top component could be a top loader and the others could simply have doors. To reduce the height of the device, there could be a tray which swivels out, though i always think trays are fragile. |
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[gnomethang], i think they knew nothing about cars and i only heard about it, i didn't actually see it happen. |
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Is there no paper clip hole in your CD drive? |
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logical, practical, would make the world a less annoying place. |
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but then, why not go further and make that type of customer-sympathetic design a legal requirement in all things, and have the manual be well-written enough to take it apart and together again, if you feel so inclined. like, if the little cord of rubber that opens and closes your cd-drive door breaks, you wouldn't have a problem simply opening it up and replacing the rubber band, hence enlarging the lifespan of many cd-drives?
i imagine that the reason the latter has not been done already would explain why such an idea is currently not plausible. |
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