{"id":1898,"date":"2009-10-01T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2009-10-01T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T01:51:28","slug":"star-shaped-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/star-shaped-discs\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-Shaped Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/got-a-playstation-3\/\">I purchased a Sony PlayStation 3 recently<\/a>. I thoroughly read the accompanying manual on a train ride and a particular detail caught this optical media aficionado&#8217;s eye:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sony-ps3-disc-notice.jpg\" alt=\"Sony PlayStation 3 manual -- disc shape notice\" title=\"Sony PlayStation 3 manual -- disc shape notice\" width=\"475\" height=\"66\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sony-ps3-disc-notice.jpg 475w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sony-ps3-disc-notice-300x41.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Wait&#8230; what?<\/em> Star-shaped discs? Heart-shaped ones as well? Are those real? How would those even work? I know about 80 cm discs that fit in the smaller groove of a CD tray. I also know about the business card-shaped CD&#8217;s; I even have a few games that were published on such a form factor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/astro-assembler\/cover-art\/gameCoverId,83921\/\">for example<\/a>). But a star has points. And a heart? How?<\/p>\n<p>A brief bit of Googling for &#8220;star shaped disc&#8221; leads me directly to the Wikipedia article on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaped_CD\">shaped CDs<\/a>, which happens to showcase a heart-shaped CD. But how would a star-shaped disc work? That (typically) has 5 points. Where would the circular track go, the one that holds data? I figure there could be sort of a fat star, a circle with 5 points. This turns out to be the correct idea as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proactionmedia.com\/shaped_cd_dvd.htm\">this disc manufacturing page indicates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/star-shaped-cd.jpg\" alt=\"star-shaped-cd\" title=\"star-shaped-cd\" width=\"145\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1900\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check out the page and see the oddest shape&#8211; the house CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini CDs come in all kinds of wacky shapes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}