Tech Myths: CD Chills and Phone Thrills

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Pink Floyd was enhanced not by putting it in the freezer. It sounded better because of the ice cubes you took out to add to your alcoholic beverage.
 
Well i worked in a hospital as an anesthesia tech over the summer. Although the hospital did have a no cell phone policy, this was consistently ignored. In fact, there was a cell phone in each room for the anesthesiologists. I asked the head tech about this and he said that once upon a time, cell phones could cause interference in things like an EGK. However, they would never render a machine unusable. Furthermore, modern machines are shielded and are not significantly affected by a cell phone.
 
CDs are stored digitally. The data is encoded with redundancy that allows for error detection and correction.

Again if all the errors are correctable then the music stored on the disc is 100% identical to the original.

If you want to measure disc quality you can run a utility that will graph the number and types of errors found on the disc.

 
So Willy Winkle, Third Stage is among your oldest albums, but Boston's debut is not. Was it lost in the sands of time or did you actually own Third Stage and not Boston? If the latter, then, I really don't know what to say. :|
 
If you really think there's a difference, rip ta piece of both CDs to uncompressed .wav files, and compare the digital data...

A quick point... cellular phones were moderately dangerous to medical equipment and certain navigational computers on aircraft. When i say cellular phones, i mean the analog bricks we carried around in 1991 when the law was made. The phones we're using now are technically all digital PCS phones, not the analog cell phones those laws were written for.
 
The one point we always make is that consumers should buy media based on the value of the content they are storing.
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I remember trying to burn a backup of data on my Computer before sending it in for repairs. I was using CompUSA branded CD-Rs (really really cheap stuff). I saw pinpricks in the CD media before I even burned it. The reflective layer on the CDs was actually the backside of the label on the top surface, which was actually brittle and cracked with too much pressure (the reason they tell you to use a felt-tipped pen when writing on them). Oddly enough, the disks burned just fine and could be read back a few months later. I don't care about them anymore, but I still have them, and it would be interesting to see if they aren't just completely dead by now.
 
The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.
 
[citation][nom]johnny_5[/nom]So Willy Winkle, Third Stage is among your oldest albums, but Boston's debut is not. Was it lost in the sands of time or did you actually own Third Stage and not Boston? If the latter, then, I really don't know what to say. :|[/citation]
I went back for the prior two releases on CD later because I already had them on LP. ;-)
 
[citation][nom]thackstonns[/nom]The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.[/citation]
It pays to be taller than the other kids. Moreover, Prince was cool in the '80s. If I'd gone around listening to Air Supply and
Manhatten Transfer, yeah, it could've gotten ugly.
 
Back in 93 they had leaking gas fridges, that could add to the reason why pink floyd sounded so much better after sticking your head in there.
 
I am a pilot and cellphones on planes are not allowed to be used NOT because they interfere with instrucments (because they dont) they interfere with Cell network/carriers coverage range thats the ONLY reason!
 
You know, you gotta wonder where there stuff comes from. I mean, at some point, someone had to have come up with the idea, "Hey, I wonder if putting my CD in the freezer would make it sound better?"
 
[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]You know, you gotta wonder where there stuff comes from. I mean, at some point, someone had to have come up with the idea, "Hey, I wonder if putting my CD in the freezer would make it sound better?"[/citation]
I've thought that about many things. Look at escargot. How hungry did that first guy have to be, huh?
 
[citation][nom]williamvw[/nom]It pays to be taller than the other kids. Moreover, Prince was cool in the '80s. If I'd gone around listening to Air Supply and Manhatten Transfer, yeah, it could've gotten ugly.[/citation]

ACDC, Metallica, Iron Madien, White Lion, Poison, those were cool, I do remember people listening to him. I just never could get over how much of a dousche he was. And I liked metal better.
 
They did the phone on the plane one on mythbusters. The solution they came up with is that it does have the potential to screw with things, but really that would only happen if wires/equipment were not shielded properly. Realistically this isn't an issue, but we are still taking the "better safe then sorry" route.
 
cell phones in a hospital are the same as on an airplane, "better safe than sorry" ... that being said, my wife is an ER nurse and she and her coworkers use their cells at work regularly, given they have any bars.
 
[citation][nom]thackstonns[/nom]The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.[/citation]
Prince rocks!
 
Does anyone doubt anymore that recordable media goes bad? I have over 300 movies backed up on DVD by a "Brand A" and the remaining of my collection (500+) on "Brand B" discs. I switched to Brand B because I was hearing bad things about Brand A. Sure enough, months/years later at least 1 out of 3 Brand A discs are barely playable in my DVD player. The first batch of Brand B discs which now are about the same age as the last Brand A discs are still solid. Good thing my first batch of discs are just backups and not my only source.
For reference, the CD Freaks forums are the best reference for media quality of discs and burners. That's where I learned of my coming tragedy. A lot of very talented and intelligent people over there.

As for the CD's chosen? I'm with William on this one. "Houses of the Holy" and "Momentary Lapse of Reason" were my first CD's.
 
i freeze my windows vista disk for 1 year now i have a windows seven!! 😛
 
First to hellwig who said about his CompUSA branded disks 'The reflective layer on the CDs was actually the backside of the label on the top surface'. All cd/dvd/hd-dvd/blu-ray and other similar media is this way and there are no disks where the reflective layer is on the bottom. Some media has an additional label or covering on top of the reflective layer but the reflective part is always affixed to the top part or the clear plastic disk. If you think about it, how else could disk cleaners possibly work? They buff out scratches on the clear plastic by removing a small amount of the surface material (part of which fills the gaps/scratches). If the reflective layer was on the bottom then you would never be able to repair it in that manner (and sometimes you can't anyways).
Secondly, as Codesmith mentioned, data on cd's is stored digitally as ones and zeroes. Freezing your disc does not and should not alter the data stored on the disc. This just makes no sense at all and it seems even sillier that anyone at tom's would ever consider testing such claims knowing how a cd's work in the first place. It's almost as silly as saying that freezing dead batteries will get you more usage out of them.
 
I wonder if storing a CD over a prolonged time in the freezer would benefit compared to keeping it at room temperature.
Most of my self burned CD's of the '90's are all done for!
Some CD's and DVD's of 2000-2004 show errors.
I understand the tests with keeping a CD in the freezer overnight is bogus. But perhaps as a method of storing the info for years, could give some better results!

Also, if a CD is 'bad', is there a possibility to play it back on another device to recover the data (eg: dvd player, or blueray player, or a very old CD ROM device)?
 
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