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Author Topic: CD Tray Design Screw Up.  (Read 1490 times)

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CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« on: April 28, 2010, 02:31:29 pm »
Why, after all this time, do they still insist on placing the open CD tray button UNDER the CD tray?  It would be much easier if I didn't have to flex my finger underneith an open CD tray to close the bloody thing.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 02:36:26 pm »
Er. What kind of Disk drive do YOU have? i just push the tray a bit, and POOF, it goes in.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 02:37:17 pm »
Row row fight da powah.  Seriously, this has always bugged the crap out of my.  Why do I have to finagle my thumb underneath the tray and slip it out real quick, instead of putting the button where your finger won't be in the path of the tray?

Quote from: Calhoun on April 28, 2010, 02:36:26 pm
Er. What kind of Disk drive do YOU have? i just push the tray a bit, and POOF, it goes in.

Legacy of old habits, from back when trays didn't do that.  Besides, as cheap as those things are, I'm always afraid I'm going to snap it strip the gears or something.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 02:43:38 pm »
Mine has a button right on the tray. Push. Blink blink. Pop. Now you can pull it open and put a cd in. No you have to push it closed.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 03:19:15 pm »
It's probably because they put the motor and laser and all that crap underneath the disc, which means there's no room for anything above the disc.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 04:02:35 pm »
They put the button under the tray nowadays because you don't have to push it to close it on 99% of trays now.
And there's no PCB above the tray.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 05:01:43 pm »
Quote from: Janet on April 28, 2010, 02:43:38 pm
Mine has a button right on the tray. Push. Blink blink. Pop. Now you can pull it open and put a cd in. No you have to push it closed.
Well with the motor underneath the tray, putting the button underneath the tray saves you a bunch of wiring and is easier for the manufacturer. I guess that's why they do it.

Hell the disk player on both my and my dad's desktop use a flip-open front so I couldn't even push the button if I'd want to when it's open. My laptop uses a kind of spring system which is open-only, instead of a motor, so I have to push my disk tray back in fully by hand. I can't even close the tray with a button on any computer I have access to...
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 05:06:16 pm »
Or you could just disassemble the case, take the freaking button out, do little something to front panel and put the button there. It's not hard.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 05:07:25 pm »
That still makes more sense that having a button that closes it, but putting it underneath.

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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 05:17:11 pm »
My new (Christmas) HP has an open button right on the side of the tray. However all my older PC's are underbuttoned.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 05:26:10 pm »
if you have the pc on the desk then under in a lot better.
 
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 05:30:26 pm »
True, but I think a lot of people put theirs under the desk.

At least we don't have to reach all the way in back to turn the power on and off anymore.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 05:31:05 pm »
Mine is on the side. It is a tiny button though. Also, I seem to have a second (it is labeled as such) CD drive button and tray. However, there is no disc reader underneath the tray and no motor to shove the tray around. It is odd.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2010, 05:32:12 pm »
Quote from: sonerohi on April 28, 2010, 05:31:05 pm
Also, I seem to have a second (it is labeled as such) CD drive button and tray. However, there is no disc reader underneath the tray and no motor to shove the tray around. It is odd.

So it's just a tray that can slide out?  Maybe that one really is a cup-holder.
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Re: CD Tray Design Screw Up.
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2010, 05:55:00 pm »
But it doesn't even slide well. You would have to open the case and shove it out a bit from the inside, and always leave it a bit ajar. Plus, the only drink size proper for it is an inch too tall to change games while you have your drink in there.
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