CD's do not last for ever!!! help!!

0:02 My name is Jonathan

Alright folks, my name is Jonathan. I'm also known as the DJ Tutor. I give online lessons in the art of DJing and I do the occasional nutty video. But you may be able to help me and other people. Right, that is a CD. It's a recordable CD. So in other words, you can let's say have music on your PC And you can bung it on something like that and you can play it on a CD player. The difference with that, as opposed to say, that double CD, which by the way is very good, is this was recorded in, you know, a factory, a studio. I've been a bit thick here but, you know, it wasn't done here. Alright, so, these guys, theoretically, should last quite a long time.

3:33 CDs are meant to last

I have been told that, I suppose in a sense, they don't last as long as something like this. Right, we'll show you something. Now, I've got two copies. There's that, that, disc, where are we? Disc 2, disc 1 and this guy here which is... ial by Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. If you're a mobile DJ and you like the old school disco, I suggest you get this. When I say I suggest you get this, I suppose the irony is that the CDs aren't lasting. But again, this is why I'm making this video so you may be able to help me, enlighten me on what the bloody hell's going on here. Alright, so we've got Simply The Best Disco there. Okay, so I buy the original double CD. Now let's have a look at that CD.

Right, what I'm going to do now, you know, in my nutty way and my punk TV style, I very rarely do any editing so what I'm going to do is just take your fisheye off and we'll like have a closer look at this area so you can see close up what I'm about to explain. So we'll take that off there and I'll move the camera to about there. Alright, I can't see what I'm doing at the moment so let me put that there.

Look at that. Right, alright, I can see what I'm doing there. Okay, let's have a look at the original CD I bought. Well, there's one of them and there is the other. Okay, now from there you can see a nice beautiful silver circle and you can see a silver circle with a slight difference. Okay, let's have a look at this one first. It's disc one. Take a look at that. Let's look at the other side. Beautiful, isn't it? Have a look at disc two. There's one side and there's the other. Now that is the scary bit. This is a CD. CDs are meant to last. When I say forever, but they're meant to last as long as the user looks after them for. In other words, you know, if you keep them in a warm, comfy place then theoretically they should last

A very long time. If you start scratching them and abusing them, then of course they're not going to last. But what's going on there? Can you see that there? And also if I have a look around here, can you see where my finger is there? It's getting blurred. You can see there, sorry, dots. Now that is not a pen mark. That's a part of the CD. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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