I suspect the issue is dye versus metal. On a homemade, isn't the laser
burning pits into metal versus an ink layer on a commercial CD.
I'd guess the metal gets hot in the car!
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geilfuss Charles" <Charles.Geilfuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: [OM] [OT]: Way OT/ Smoking Hot CD's
> Greetings All,
> Well it has much to quiet on the List today, so I will weigh in with
> an OT request for information. I was on a road trip over the weekend
(taking
> my son to Summer camp in North Carolina) and made a peculiar observation.
He
> brought his collection of music CD's to listen in the car. Most are
original
> CD's with a few computer made copies of music CD's. After playing the
> store-bought CD's they are slightly warm to the touch...but the CD copies
> are almost too hot to hold! He actually dropped the first one while
removing
> it. Any thoughts on why. I can understand that the dye layer in the
> read/write CD's may absorb more heat, but I'm a bit skeptical that the
tiny
> milliwatt output of the reading laser could transfer that much heat.
Thanks.
>
> Charlie
>
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