Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.
Anti skip wasn’t completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD
One massive jolt was okay, but sustained vibration was not. Anti-skip worked by caching a few seconds in the future and playing that when the laser lost focus. More than a couple seconds of no laser contact and the cache runs out.
I mean I was doing a paper round around 2000 and the one I owned certainly didn’t have anti-skip to begin with and even when they did have anti-skip that doesn’t mean that it never skipped as later ones I had with it only had “x seconds of anti skip” so if it receives a big jolt that shit was still skipping
Walking down the street, cradling the thing like a baby because the slightest bump would cause it to skip, those were the days xD
And the CDs needed to be handled with kid gloves
In 2002 they would all have anti-skip, even the cheap knock offs. The skipping was just in the early 90s.
Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.
Anti skip wasn’t completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD
One massive jolt was okay, but sustained vibration was not. Anti-skip worked by caching a few seconds in the future and playing that when the laser lost focus. More than a couple seconds of no laser contact and the cache runs out.
I mean I was doing a paper round around 2000 and the one I owned certainly didn’t have anti-skip to begin with and even when they did have anti-skip that doesn’t mean that it never skipped as later ones I had with it only had “x seconds of anti skip” so if it receives a big jolt that shit was still skipping