JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL R OJALVO Chao Chen
Mr.Ojalvo
DATE
ET_821_B1
 
Compact disc players

Since their introduction in 1983 .compact discs have become best recrording medium for music. Unlike record albums and tapes, compact discs cannot be damaged with normal use.

A standard sized compact disc is less than 5 inches in diameter and is capable of storing up to 75 minutes of digitally encoded music. Each disc consists billions of tiny pits that represent muscial signals with numeric codes. A beam of laser light reads these pits converts the codes into musical signals.

Compact disc players have a wide variety of features. The folllowing list will help you choose exactly what you would like in a cmpact disc player.
  • Wireless remote control allows you to program, play,pause,skip,repeat, and perform a variety of other functions without being at the compact disc player.
  • Highspeed transport (or hgh speed linear motor) allows you to access any track on the disc in less than  a second.
  • Programmsble play allows you hear only the tracks you want to hear in the order you want to hear them.
  • Direct acess allows you to have immediate acess to any particular track without having to forward or reverese through other tracks.
  • Auto cue allows you to place the laser pickup in a standby mode at the beginning of each track.
  • Full functions of LCD display provides a clear indication of disc playblack information,such as the track number, elapsed playing time, remaining disc time, etc
  • Shuffle (or random) play ets the compact dsc player randomly play the tracks of the disc in a new order each time.
  • Repeat mode allows you to replay your favorites over and over, from a single song to the entire disc.