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Roadmap 2020 – HD Vinyl looks like their first test pressing was a fail.
Roadmap 2020 – HD Vinyl looks like their first test pressing was a fail.
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Also mudguards for lightweight cycles, they burnt out in seconds, good old days.
> Also mudguards
Also shirt-collar stiffeners, in days when men smoked cigars. POOF! no eye-brows.
Also shirt-collar stiffeners, in days when men smoked cigars. POOF! no eye-brows.
I suppose that the biggest risk to HD Vinyl is running out of capital. The process itself looks reasonably sound. The math involved in transforming a music signal into a 3D ridge is complicated, but less so than other problems that have been solved. Cutting delicate structures with a laser gets done in many other applications. Issues related to pressing LP's with a ceramic stamper might be more complicated than they expect, but who knows.
Table tennis balls too and they started to use plastic instead, official reasoning was based on risk of fire (not only at the manufacturing plant but during transportion as well), comparable situation, many brands but only a couple of actual manufacturers and it needed a lot of experiments and a couple of years to get it done. As usual there is/was a youtube clip where guys burned a basket full of zelluloid balls with spectacular results.
As it was used for film material also, the fire in a museum in Paris was quite desaster as well.
The mentioned running out of capital for the new process was a real risk, as I'd assume that investment in the new process would be quite high and exchange of running cutting lathes a questionable move for a pressing plant.
I've seen the clip about the failed first pressing with the ceramic stamper and a needed additional change of the presses could be a major disadvantage.
Maybe it is possible to include some intermediate steps and use the ceramic form for the production of a traditional stamper.
But the fire loss might be a game changer for the so-called "HD vinyl".