The Compact Disc Story

CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, Game Discs, Photo Discs, etc. All digital compact discs are constructed similarly, whatever the format or the spelling.

Digitally encoded film is "sandwiched" between a relativoely thin protective coating on the label side and a much thicker clear coating on the "playing side". A laser is focused through an optical lens and sent up through the clear coating to "read" microscopic bits of data and reflect the information downward to be processed.

(See Very Technical for more detailed info.)

Very simple and forever efficient if handled with rubber gloves in a sterile, dust-free laboratory. In the real world, everyday use and abuse can contribute countless ways for discs to be soiled or even worse, scratched. CD, CD-ROM, and DVD drives are equipped with error-correction circuitry that compensates for minor impurities, but the process has its limitations.

A build-up of fingerprints, dust and scratches can confound even the best error correction circuitry, preventing the laser from properly "reading" data. This can result in distortion, program error (skipping), data loss and equipment failure. You can clean build-up of airborne dust and dirt from your player or drive’s laser lens by using the CD 2000 Laser Lens Cleaner, but the player isn’t always the problem.

Discs must be clean and free of laser-obstructing impurities to ensure optimum performance. Several cleaning preparations are currently available (mostly isopropyl alcohol and purified water) and most cleaners do remove dust and fingerprints from discs. Simple cleaners, however, cannot remove scratches, clearly a disc’s worst enemy.

That is why you need the CD Fix-It Kit                                      >>> Very Technical

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