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nargun
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VHS equipment is actually pretty expensive to make. There's something like a dozen moving parts in every VHS tape, and even the cheapest players are built around a one-piece casting more than a foot across. Lots of headroom for cost-cutting if someone could get some traction on a disk-based [stampable] playback medium, and as an added bonus VHS had pretty ordinary playback quality and abysmal durability. Charge more for a cheaper _and_ better product, everyone wanted a slice of that action. So there were a few different proposals made. |
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leafy sea dragon
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The method of inserting one of those disks sounds like a nightmare for JVC. Quite often, when they're plugged in to demonstrate what they can do, I see DVD and Blu-Ray players in stores ruined by people who have no clue how to operate the devices and brute-force them until something breaks.
It most commonly happens with the disk tray, if the device has one. Once the tray comes out, people will invariably try to push on it to put it back in--if the device wasn't built to sense a push and retract the tray by itself, they will do it by force, and everywhere I go, I see these players with cracked-off trays or trays permanently jammed outside the machine because they're dislodged. Less commonly, I find people trying to wedge the tray OUT. While nearly everyone has the common sense to push a button, the people who don't have it cause more damage because they can do it to a display machine that isn't plugged in. (To combine that, a Blu-Ray player at a Target near where I live was opened from its box, its disk tray forcibly wedged out, a pamphlet placed on it, and the tray smashed back in, then sloppily placed back inside its box.) Players with slots you simply stick the disc into, though not quite so common, will sometimes have small flat objects jammed into them, like literature, lids, and food. I can just imagine all of these VHD players destroyed the minute they're turned on by people not understanding to wait for the machine to take the disk before pulling out the case, trying to cram the whole thing in there, or forcing the empty case back into the device. |
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