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Compact Disc This is radical, man! Lasers make music? What will the tech wizards come up with next? In this video, we take our first look at the compact disc and the encoding that powers it. We'll be looking at CD players and their optical read heads in more detail soon, so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already! Alec's channel: / @technologyconnections Original video: • The Compact Disc: An Introduction Patreon Technology Connections: / technologyconnections Boosty to support translations: https://boosty.to/bassman Translations on other platforms: VK: https://vk.com/public220447489 Zen: https://dzen.ru/id/64510de66b4b3a5a29... Links! "How does it work?": • Compact disc How does it work. Laserdisc Playlist: • LaserDisc Really good stuff about CIRC: https://books.google.rs/books?id=yws5... 00:00 – Introduction 00:55 – LaserDisc 01:43 – Pits and Lands 03:12 – Philips and Sony 04:36 – How CDs Are Encoded 05:48 – Reed-Solomon Code 07:57 – A Digression About Wikipedia 08:43 – 8-14 Modulation 10:08 – How Is Data Written on Disc? 11:33 – The Construction of a CD 13:35 – DualDisc 14:53 – The Ending 16:16 – Bad Takes Materials from freepik.com and krotosaudio.com were used.