Posted by Smarty on 10/18/05 19:35

You're right, Justin. I think the design options would be to put dual lasers
on both sides of the stationary DVD, rotate the disk with a robotic
mechanism, or, as you say, rotate the laser to the other side of the
stationary disk. If I were the designer, I would personally use the dual
laser approach, since the notion of adding an additional moving mechanism to
the already complex 400 DVD changer would be less reliable than a stationary
dual pickup.


"Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> Smarty wrote on [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:48:49 -0400]:
>> Ken,
>>
>> That is exactly what I do Ken. I actually offered that option in a
>> subsequent reply, describing how I took DVDs like Goodfellow (Robert
>> DiNiro)
>> and others which span 2 sides and reauthor them to 2 disks.
>>
>> I'm old enough to remember the Garrard turntable which had a robotic arm
>> which would flip vinyl LP albums years ago. What a monstrosity. I'm glad
>> this is NOT being done for DVDs.
>
> Does it need to be though? I know there were laserdisc players that
> would flip the laser to the other side of the disc, instead of flipping
> the disc. Or some similar method where it was the laser that moved or
> changed and not the disc.

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