Tomorrow's World - The Jam Spreading Myth
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- A quick video about the points raised on my Jam Spreading Myth article on my website at orchardoo.com/jam. Books, websites, magazines and UA-cam comments all
try to say that strawberry jam was spread on a CD to demonstrate how durable the format was. Some say my clip at • Tomorrow's World - Com...
wasn't the first time compact discs were shown and that jam was used, but this clip is the first UK demonstration of the compact disc.
If anyone has any concrete proof of jam being used (other than just remembering) or a full copy of the first episode of the third series of
the Oxford Road Show, where Peter Powell used jam on a disc, then let me know via the comments or my website.
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As I remember he smeared jam and cigarette ash on both a CD and a vinyl record. After wiping both only the CD would play.
Have you watched the video before making your comment? 1) Jam was never used on a compact disc, only honey (and coffee). 2) Cigarette ash is a new suggestion to me. The original clip was before the general ban on smoking being shown in programs, but I doubt TW would encourage their presenters to smoke so they could use the ash to help their demonstration. 3) If you smeared anything on a vinyl record chances are you would damage the grooves, so no one would put jam or ash on a vinyl disc and expect it to play afterwards!
@@LarryDors You seem to have missed my point. Yes, I did watch the video but my recollection was with jam and cigarette ash irrespective of whatever programme it was shown on - I did not even mention TW (but lots of people think that it was). And no, someone smoking was not shown - simply ash in an ash tray! Lastly, it is of course pretty obvious that spreading jam and ash on a vinyl record would destroy it but that was not the point. The point was to show the difference between a vinyl record and a CD: the CD still played perfectly whilst the vinyl record was binned.
Sorry, I do not know where you are based, but in the UK, Tomorrow's World was the first programme to demonstrate the CD (see my clip at ua-cam.com/video/bMp1pSVxoqw/v-deo.html). Many people were convinced jam was used, but that happended on a music programme called the Oxford Road Show in November 1982 by the DJ Peter Powell. I have yet to find a full copy of that episode. Breakfast TV used honey and coffee (see ua-cam.com/video/fiOFOJWtyGs/v-deo.html) and obviously other programmes covered the technology. Can you remember the programme you saw it on? Searching for CD and Ash only comes up with results of the 1992 Northern Irish rock band Ash! 😄
@@LarryDors Unfortunately, I cannot remember the programme. I know many still seem to think it was TW but it appears that was debunked several years ago. I really wish I knew but I was convinced it was shown on television as we had no internet back in the 1980s - but then maybe it was all just a dream after all!