On 2014-03-30 3:40 PM, John Haley wrote:
> 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
Hi, John,
I _think_ with 20/20 hindsight that we are not understanding what the
original design criteria were:
-PROTECT THE DISC
-Allow meaningful room for spine labeling
-Allow for easily produced jacket art and booklets
-Be inexpensive
I still think that the jewel box offers good protection for discs, but I
do not disagree with all your comments, either. The key things for
protection are: suspending by the centre hole, making certain the edges
have something to touch before the rest of the side, keeping the
label/top side of the CD from being scratched (as well as the bottom side)
Cheers,
Richard
> 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.
>>
>
-- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask]
Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800
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