How CD's Are Made - A discovery Channel Show

[MrSkinnyBill]

Its pronounced AlumINIUm

[jaythejayzer]

huhuhu 2:32 thats what she's doing.

[eduardob69]

the guy sounds a lot like david shwimmer

[tambiz93]

cds are made with polycarbonate plastic....

[MrFews]

Bleh I did glass mastering for 5 years,prick of a job!!

[thethemrbrown]

I wonder how for example the "700 MB" disc has just 846 720 000 bytes. Such an accuracy!

[idan4411]

5 goats dislike this video

[weail]

usb flash drive,,FTW!

[YiiJun]

Owh...Machine WORK! 

[YiiJun]

How the market sell it thousand of disc, if the system to make disc are this slow...?

[4jeremy9]

I bet that master would sound pretty good...

[mustelidmama]

I appreciate my CD's more now.

[SamuraiClinton]

Use the same footage to describe how DVDs (and/or Blu-rays are made).

[alexxj220]

I like the english voice over. Much better than this one. I got well bored watching this.

[alexnguy3n]

2:29 JIZZ ROFL

[vanjastanic]

All this shit, and I buy 50 CD's for $3

[MickeyMcFlarin]

David Schwimmer, is that you?

[knockerccd]

@MickeyMcFlarin I wondered that too. I think your right.

[moneyjr1122]

how does it contain data though >< like howww!!!

[cjmitz]

@moneyjr1122 the glass has tiny notches which reflect a laser a different way. the notches are then transformed onto the plastic of the CD.

checkout the cd laser diagram (address): i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/b­log/mempile_block-diagram_lg.j­pg

if the tiny part of the disc is reflective, the laser goes back into the 1 way mirror (prism)/dichroic then into the lens and detector, millions of times per minute which is how speed is determined.

so if it detects, it makes a 1, which is binary data!

[moneyjr1122]

@cjmitz ohhhh thats so bizarre how you can transfer data as light like seriously the computer is a second human body

[ALEXTWF1]

i could do this with my bare hands!

[vmelkon]

How is aluminum applied? The only thing they said is that "this machine applies a thin film of Al

[bigbadvoo]

As always, good stuff by How It's Made. Thanks for sharing it.

The narrator sounds so much like David Schwimmer. I know it's not him, but it's still such a terrible voice... it's like he's in puberty-limbo.

Glad they change narrators often.

[twizy123]

i'd laugh if the master got scratched

[ekgomes]

thanks

[Ma7m9d]

100,000 cd per day is not mass production?

[jingle41]

but you gotta admit this video kinda makes it seem that they take forever

[cjmitz]

@jingle41 each finished disc actually only takes a few seconds... it takes me about 10 minutes to burn a 2GB disc, so without these techniques future disc sizes (blu-ray) would take forever!

[leif77]

@jingle41 mastering always takes forever... you should see the process for vinyl...

[fartsam08]

i thought discs would be mass produced? not taking a freekin lifetime to make just one:P

[elchicoboy]

actually this one is the master or how they call it original. it takes longer time because they're making the disc from scratch then they add some final touches, we have the "original" ones but they're just giving us "copy" from the original one which is this one shown above! ^_^

[fartsam08]

oh i see, so this disc above is kind of a prototype? just a test one that they can "clone" if you get my meaning

[elchicoboy]

when its in the market to the buyers to buy the cd its a "clone" for them but for the customers, are original :)... not a prototype cuz prototypes are constantly changing parts to get it perfect. but a name could be original :D. i dont know if you get me but its a logical way to explain :D

[rsman169]

100,000 disks in one day from one factory, that is mass production..

[fartsam08]

cool

[dragonjiggy]

lol, it takes less then a second to make one.

[personjerry]

well generally they wouldn't do this by hand like in the video, and they would do many disks at the same time (or asynchronously)

[pironx23]

at 2:33 it looks like a metal penis cumming

[Ma7m9d]

Interesting observation!

[TheAceofspades1996]

@pironx23 lmao i know right! i just saw that and started to look for comments similar to wat i was thinking

[dragonscarz13]

I'm doing an essay too =/

And btw, that's why i dont buy reely expensive games for expensive systems

[DJSIQRIQ]

all that to make one CD....

Fuck that

[Speedster159]

This is not recordable they are like Sims 2 DVD

ECT....

[JotaLMusic]

wow this takes long time, wonder how they makes this faster to make millions of em

[holtsas]

fuck this !. just download it off the internet haha!

[dragonscarz13]

illegal rom downloads ftw

[Saxyman14]

Capitalism sir. People have to make profit. People have to be paid. Supply and demand.

Next time you finish a game, sit there and read the credits. Think about your 60 dollars spread out evenly among the hundreds of people it took to make it. It's not that much if you think of it that way.

[cyborgtroy]

:( The designers gotta get paid, man.

[Tishagi]

Exactly. Consider it competent payment for all of todays 'bland' media.

[greenpanda47]

anyone know of any books about how cds are made. I need help for my science project!!!!!!!

[Antiquiet]

thanks man i was really curious about this and i found this awesome video :)

[vmelkon]

That was weird. The process is for making CD-ROMs but in the end, I think they show CD-Rs

[c4t2007]

i love movies like this

[FAnchax]

HOW IT'S MADE!!!!!!

[Crimzors]

2:32

[LNBlankZ]

lmao! that was funny.

[cube11235]

Dirty dirty dirty dirty!

I couldn't help but laugh.

[killer13iii]

The process was not for cd`s that are burned with cd/dvd burners. The process is for branded CD`s like music, films, games etc. that u buy from the store.

[Finlandia]

Interesting. With the proliferation of cd burners, never really thought the process was so complicated.