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Sept 23, 2020 0:27:38 GMT
Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Sept 23, 2020 0:27:38 GMT
Is Dilly really saying he has to turn his head to read CD spines? His wife must get sick of him mouthing the words in his smug voice.
Mazzy
Because most people are getting rid of physical media. They follow what sells.
dilly
Yes. They're eating more organics too. But that's irrelevant to the subject I was discussing: people who have CD's, storing them 90 degrees from better legibility, by standing them up on shelves.
Are you also going to pick apart my point because I mentioned Ibuprofen instead of Acetaminophen?
Are you also going to pick apart my point because I mentioned Ibuprofen instead of Acetaminophen?
Mazzy
No just that furniture makers follow trends. CDs are longer that. Record storage has made a comeback though.
dilly
So...why haven't they at least tried in the past fourty years...? :waiting:
Bever70 (who’s from Belgium)
What have you got against a pair of glasses?
Storing a lot of cd's in drawers is just not very space economical vs. storing them upright.
And I don't know about you but most of the time I don't even have to read the actual back sideways, I just recognize the back like that.
Storing a lot of cd's in drawers is just not very space economical vs. storing them upright.
And I don't know about you but most of the time I don't even have to read the actual back sideways, I just recognize the back like that.
Dilly
Must be the language difference. :shrug:
Yes, it’s the language difference that makes everyone think you’re an idiot.
formbypc
Your drawer-based solution is more expensive, and more wasteful of space. I would reckon most folks would rather have the shelves along with more floor space, and live with the vertical spines.
I would also suggest that most serious collectors will not actually need to read the spines, and likely know most of them by location on the shelves, colour, graphic design, etc.
I would also suggest that most serious collectors will not actually need to read the spines, and likely know most of them by location on the shelves, colour, graphic design, etc.
Dilly
Of course you're wrong, and if you'd like to come over to the house, I'd be glad to show you both how little my cabinet takes up in my music room...and, how much wall space it replaces. Do the math: drawers sitting atop one another, versus feet of space you would have to mount those same drawers on a wall, next to one another, and aside one another, and...essentially replacing anything else you could place along those walls.
As far as the drawer-based solution cost, just go to your local cheap-o furniture store, and price a kid's chest of drawers, and you're likely to find a used one for anywhere from 40 to 80 dollars. The issue isn't the cost of these of course, it's that you have to make custom cabinets, because furniture companies don't make the same modifications they would need to work with heavy CD's, and relatively-cheap file-cabinet drawers. Which is, what I've been saying since the 1990's, when I had mine custom-built off of a standard child's chest of drawers blueprint, modified. If that same furniture guy who built my custom job, made 10 of 'em, he could not only have made a profit, he'd have made mine for half the price...and, found a whole new niche product with hundreds of prospective customers...just by logging-in here!
I'm really weary of telling this story over and over every time this thread comes up, but, there's nothing wrong with my idea. What's wrong is...nobody has the vision to do it. And I'm too old to start another company.
I've only explained this in, oh, 25 different threads asking for the same solutions, until I'm blue in the face, and I'm getting kind of tired of ostriches looking at one sentence in every thread, and tsk'ing, "oh, it can't be done". And since this board no longer hosts their own images, I won't be showing you my solution just to prove it exists. All I need to tell you is...if they mass-produced it, it would be perfectly affordable. But, nobody does, which is all I've been saying.
As far as the drawer-based solution cost, just go to your local cheap-o furniture store, and price a kid's chest of drawers, and you're likely to find a used one for anywhere from 40 to 80 dollars. The issue isn't the cost of these of course, it's that you have to make custom cabinets, because furniture companies don't make the same modifications they would need to work with heavy CD's, and relatively-cheap file-cabinet drawers. Which is, what I've been saying since the 1990's, when I had mine custom-built off of a standard child's chest of drawers blueprint, modified. If that same furniture guy who built my custom job, made 10 of 'em, he could not only have made a profit, he'd have made mine for half the price...and, found a whole new niche product with hundreds of prospective customers...just by logging-in here!
I'm really weary of telling this story over and over every time this thread comes up, but, there's nothing wrong with my idea. What's wrong is...nobody has the vision to do it. And I'm too old to start another company.
I've only explained this in, oh, 25 different threads asking for the same solutions, until I'm blue in the face, and I'm getting kind of tired of ostriches looking at one sentence in every thread, and tsk'ing, "oh, it can't be done". And since this board no longer hosts their own images, I won't be showing you my solution just to prove it exists. All I need to tell you is...if they mass-produced it, it would be perfectly affordable. But, nobody does, which is all I've been saying.