I have always been amazed that the same techno wizards who could bring us
CD's and their digital prodigy got stuck with the jewel case for packaging.
What a lousy, dumb design it is, from delaminating center holes to weak,
easily breaking hinges, to space hogging on shelves, etc.
Best,
John Haley
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Richard L. Hess
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> On 2014-03-30 12:14 PM, Lou Judson wrote:
>
>> For the education of us ignoramuses who have never seen an SACD case, can
>> you link to an image of one or describe it with words?
>> Like this?
>> <http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=detail&title_id=12486>
>>
>
> Hi, Lou,
>
> I think, hinges and logos aside, the huge thing between CD jewel cases and
> DVD/SACD cases is that the original CD jewel case centre hole latch can be
> hard on dual-layer discs, potentially delaminating them upon removal from
> the case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
> -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask], Ontario, Canada 647
> 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape
> transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
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