• plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      11 days ago

      You’re the one saying pressed cds are digital, what makes a pressed cd digital? You’re just wrong dude.

      An optical disc is a flat, usually[a] disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with a beam of light. Optical discs can be reflective, where the light source and detector are on the same side of the disc, or transmissive, where light shines through the disc to be detected on the other side. They may contain analog or digital information, or a mixture of the two. Their main uses are the distribution of electronic media and data, and archival storage.

      A cd is only one type of optical drive, and not all cds are digital, if they’re pressed, they’re analog. Like vinyl.

      What are you even on about man I never said vinyl is digital,

      Yes you did. A pressed cds and vinyl are the same thing, if one is analog, the other HAS to be too.

      obviously an analog format

      Like a pressed CD should obviously be analog too…? That’s the point lmfao.

      And before you asininely claim that a laser makes it digital. There is laser vinyl readers does that somehow make vinyl a digital media…? No, so why would CDs be different?

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        Why don’t you read the very first line of the cd article I linked.

        The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings

        What makes a cd digital is that it encodes digital information, ones and zeroes. That doesn’t change whether it was pressed at a factory or burned. There are optical discs that have an analog component like laserdisc, which is probably what the optical disc article is referring to, but that wasn’t on op’s list.

        Go actually learn how the formats work before talking out of your ass.