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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD player suggestions needed (CD packaging)
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:42:59 EDT
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> That new process that increases volume and lowers cost is
> putting them in cardboard sleeves instead of "jewel boxes", right?
> 
> Dick Grantges  hound!rfg

I wonder how much the lifetime of CDs would be compromised by such
a change.  Records can be scoured into garbage just by repeatedly being
slipped into and out of cheap or dirty dust-jackets.  I consider the
"jewel box" packaging technique, which eliminates any need for
abrasive contact with the recorded surface, to be one of the more
clever, if less high-tech, aspects of the CD format.

					Baba