Are compact discs indestrutible?

um no i smash them all the time

when cd's first came out they were a 3 layer sandwich of plastic base, thin aluminium disc and plastic cover.

the music was lasered through the base into the aluminium (as grooves in a record), over time the layers warped and clouding occured in the disc, turning the base white and this distorted the sound.

today all three layers are plastic and the cost of making them has rapidly dropped. the discs do not last as long and can get scratched easier but you can copy them to a cheap replacement disc well before the the disc is lost for all time.

I think that was just marketing. What they were really trying to get across - or should have been - was that as there is no contact between your player and the disc you will not get the scratching sounds of a record so it should if looked after last longer.

i remember that too!

what a bloody lie!

they are not indestructable.

I dropped one in my shredder the other week and it ate it easily. (I needed it shredded it had sensitive data on that was out of date but could not be erased it was a data cd-r)

and they are easily scratched as well. thta is why i burn my music from CD to hard drive and listen to it that way, you only risk damaging the CD once.

I have even had a CD crack in a CD-rom drive a couple of years ago.

the answer is no CDs are not indestructible.

Most certainly not!

Can you snap a CD in half? Yes!

Can you scratch CDs? Yes!

Do both of these stop a CD from working correctly? Yes!

They are good for a few things such as music/pics/short vids.

But for information storing, best use a USB FOB.

NOW thats what I call music. the unique. what decision are they on now? Like NOW a million,547? That and Joanne Shennandoah (community AM. Singer) I were given them on my birthday, with a CD participant, i presumed i grow to be the best.

I remember that episode.Maybe in those days they work again but today anything and everything seems to stop them playin.As indestructable as glass.

I dont remember that, but i know for a fact CDs ARE destructable! i dont think i own 1 that works!!!

yes i remember,

but theres a new cd producer called `captain scarlet disks',

they ARE indestructable

No, they're not as well made as they were then. It's not uncommon for one to break apart in a CDROM drive.