2006-07-03 09:35:26 · 9 answers · asked by bbpip 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It has to do with ballance. A non-circular disk of symetric size is prone to wobbling. wobbling leads to scratched disk/lense
2006-07-03 09:41:11 · answer #1 · answered by pcooke2002 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
so that information at each ascending radii of the disc can be read without moving the laser in a round about motion around the disc. The spinning of the circular disc facilitates the delivery of new information to the laser. or as the first guy put it . . . so it spins.
2006-07-03 09:42:43 · answer #2 · answered by kmm4864990 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually have rectangular ones, the size of business cards. Which is exactly what I use them for.
2006-07-03 09:40:28 · answer #3 · answered by twincerelymel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhm, because then they would be CD squares?
2006-07-03 09:39:13 · answer #4 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beacuse a square one wouldn't fit in the tray
2006-07-03 09:47:35 · answer #5 · answered by medic391 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wouldnt be called a disc otherwise... they would be called a square, or a triangle, or a rectangle, or hexagon, dodecahedron, octahedron.....
2006-07-03 09:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by greengunge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the matter of spinning!
2006-07-03 09:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So they can spin, i guess? lol
2006-07-03 09:39:06 · answer #8 · answered by A and W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spinning DUH!!
2006-07-03 09:41:37 · answer #9 · answered by amber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋