What are optical disc's made out of?

punchy71 · 08-27-2012, 11:54 AM

What materials are CD's, DVD's and Blue-Ray discs made out of respectively?

Thank you

MensaWater · 08-27-2012, 12:04 PM

Short answer: Plastic (polycarbonate).

Very detailed discussions can be found in Wikipedia for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

David the H. · 08-27-2012, 03:40 PM

1) This isn't a Linux question, so it really should've been posted in Non-*NIX > General, which is there for off-topic stuff like this.

2) There's this little search engine called Google, maybe you've heard of it, that you can use to easily find the answer to your question.

https://www.google.com/#q=what+are+cd's+made+of

MensaWater · 08-27-2012, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

There's this little search engine called Google, maybe you've heard of it, that you can use to easily find the answer to your question.
https://www.google.com/#q=what+are+cd's+made+of

Have you seen the following? It would have been perfect for your response.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what%2Bare%2Bcd%27s%2Bmade%2Bof

David the H. · 08-27-2012, 04:09 PM

Yeah, I've used it before. But I don't like using it too much because it has to be unblocked in noscript first. And I figure if I have to do it, so do others.

It's easy enough to just paste the straight google url, chop out a few unnecessary strings, and post.

MensaWater · 08-28-2012, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

It's easy enough to just paste the straight google url, chop out a few unnecessary strings, and post.

Easy but not as funny.