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Ben Savage

Bennett Joseph Savage (born September 13, 1980 ) is an American actor. He played the lead role of Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and its Disney Channel sequel Girl Meets World (2014–2017).

Acting
Savage made his film debut at the age of 9 in his elder brother Fred Savage's Little Monsters (1989) and appeared in the feature films Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992), as Sam, the brainy little brother, and as a 10-year-old in Clifford (1994), the latter starring Martin Short. Savage's stage debut was in The Laughter Epidemic at the Pasadena Playhouse. He also guest starred on his brother Fred's TV series The Wonder Years in the season three episode "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" as a Cupid-esque character named Curtis Hartsell.

His first significant speaking role on network television was playing the recurring role of Matthew, son of the Judd Hirsch character, on the comedy series Dear John (1988). He was one of a family of orphans who con Robert Mitchum into being their guardian in A Family for Joe (NBC, 1990).

Savage is best known for his role as lead character Cory Matthews on the hit TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 until 2000. Savage's brother Fred appeared alongside him in one episode, guest starring as a lecherous college professor pursuing Cory's girlfriend. In the following season, Fred directed his brother and the cast in the episode "Family Trees," as Shawn (Rider Strong) discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother.

Savage has also worked in several TV movies, including She Woke Up (1992) with Lindsay Wagner and McDonald's Family Theatre Presents: Aliens for Breakfast (1995), as a young teen whose breakfast cereal figure comes alive.

Savage received critical recognition for his portrayal of Coty Wyckoff, an angel-faced boy with the soul of a killer, in the ABC Event Series, Wild Palms (1993).

In May 1998, Savage again received critical acclaim, this time for playing Roddy Stern in Tony Award-winner Israel Horovitz's rarely seen play Unexpected Tenderness at the Marilyn Monroe Theater. He received an Ovation Award for his performance.

In 2002, Savage starred in the film Swimming Upstream playing the best friend who was slightly immature but very supportive of his terminally ill friend.

Savage took a break from acting in both film and television for three years, but he later made a guest appearance in Still Standing as Seth Cosella, the boss of Bill Miller, played by Mark Addy. That same year he starred as Ford Davis in the independent feature Car Babes, which was shot on location in Los Gatos, California, and also guest starred as himself in an episode of the Disney Channel original series Phil of the Future.

In 2006, he starred in the critically acclaimed independent film Palo Alto, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007.

In 2008, he starred as Mark Ratner in an episode of the NBC series Chuck, as well as a murder suspect Kirby Morris in an episode of Without a Trace.

In 2011, he appeared in an episode of the Fox series Bones. He also guest starred on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up playing Andy Burns.

In November 2012, Savage announced via his Twitter account that he had signed on to the Boy Meets World spin-off series, Girl Meets World. The series premiered on the Disney Channel on June 27, 2014, and features Savage's character Cory and his Boy Meets World love interest Topanga (Danielle Fishel) married in their adult years with two children. The series follows Cory and Topanga's daughter Riley (Rowan Blanchard) as she enters middle school and tries to navigate through life. Besides being Riley's father, Cory is also her history teacher in this series; in addition to his on-screen role, Savage directed some episodes. The series was canceled after three seasons on January 5, 2017, with the final episode airing on January 20.

Savage has, on three occasions, portrayed younger versions of characters played by Mandy Patinkin in flashback scenes. In 2015 and 2020 in Criminal Minds, and in 2020 in Homeland.

In 2022, Savage was cast in the Lifetime film Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film series where he portrays Nathaniel Kibby.

Politics
Savage interned for U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R–PA) in 2003 as a requirement for completing his studies at Stanford University, where he graduated in 2004 with a degree in political science and as a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

In August 2022, Savage qualified as a candidate for the West Hollywood City Council. He was not elected for one of the three at-large positions. In March 2023, Savage announced his campaign as a Democrat for California's 30th congressional district, currently held by Adam Schiff, who is retiring to run for United States Senate. He was defeated in the primary by state Assemblywoman Laura Friedman.

Personal life
Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Joanne and Lewis Savage (1946–2015 ), who worked as an industrial real estate broker and a consultant. His elder brother is actor and director Fred Savage, and his elder sister is actress and musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish and from Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and Latvia, and Savage was raised in Reform Judaism.

Savage married Tessa Angermeier in February 2023.

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Dimitri Marick

Dimitri Marick is a fictional character from the American ABC soap opera All My Children. The role has been most notably portrayed by Michael Nader, previously famed for his role on Dynasty. Former head writers Agnes Nixon and Lorraine Broderick created the character in 1991, designing him as a brooding and mysterious character based on heroes from gothic literature, such as Maxim de Winter from Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca and Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. The character's introduction raised All My Children in the Nielsen ratings, placing it consistently as the second most-watched daytime soap opera in the US.

Soon after his debut on the soap opera, Dimitri became a complex leading man and took part in some of the most notable plots of the 1990s. He had a very popular romance with Erica Kane (Susan Lucci). Dimitri and Erica's storylines include a tumultuous romance leading to two failed marriages and a miscarriage. One of the biggest obstacles in their relationship was Erica's vindinctive and manipulative daughter, Kendall Hart (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Dimitri also had a popular romance with Alexandra Devane (Finola Hughes) and a loving yet antagonistic relationship with his half-brother, Edmund Grey (John Callahan).

In July 1999, Nader was let go from All My Children due to budgetary considerations, however, he later returned in May 2000. The following year, the actor's arrest brought him and the character to the center of a large fan campaign organized by a group called the Loyalists, as well as a highly publicized lawsuit catching the attention of People and Entertainment Tonight, among other media outlets. As a result, Nader was let go again by the soap opera, with an official statement saying they would be prepared to consider having him return once he had addressed the lawsuit issues. The role was temporarily recast with actor Anthony Addabbo, who was negatively received by viewers, and let go shortly after his debut. Nader later stated in an interview that ABC had informed him that they had no intention of ever bringing him or the character back due to a lack of storyline. In 2004, Nader's suit was subsequently thrown out. In May 2013, after a twelve-year absence from All My Children, Nader was announced to be reprising the role, with his return airing on June 12, 2013.

Casting
Casting the role of Dimitri gave All My Children difficulty. The series' casting director, Judy Blye Wilson, tested between fifteen and twenty actors, and could not find the right actor for the job. Wilson then learned that the former Dynasty star, Michael Nader was available and suggested the show offer him the part.

Before All My Children offered him the role of Dimitri Marick, Nader already planned on working in both Los Angeles and New York. "My fiancee, Beth Windsor, had literally just worked into being bicoastal," he said. "She had an apartment here and I had been seeking out some theater here in New York and would have been spending time both here and in L.A. So after we made the decision to go ahead with that game plan, this offer (Dimitri) came on the table and when we worked out all the figures moneywise it was a great opportunity." Despite Nader's prime time success as Dynasty's Dex Dexter, he did not look down on daytime television. "The fact of the matter is we're in a different era," he said. "And if you look at the cutbacks in Hollywood, being on a soap is not of any less or more value than being in any other medium at this time." Another factor that contributed to his decision to join All My Children was the actors strike. He intended to stay on All My Children for a year. That year turned into more because the actor fell in love with New York.

Since finding the right actor to play Dimitri took such a long time, the show had already begun taping around the character for two weeks. Nader spent his first weeks on All My Children working overtime to catch up. "By the time we had resolved some of the terms," he said, "they were really against the wall in terms of back story.... In retrospect, I should have just slept on the set because it was like sixty or seventy pages a day!" Nader also taped his scenes out of sequence while dealing with sixteen different scripts from different points in the story. To keep each scene straight he gave them each a name that described the scene's main action. After those scenes were taped, they were spliced into the otherwise completed episodes. This went on for two weeks until the episodes were all caught up. Another complication Nader dealt with was the wardrobe. He said, "They had devised this sort of 'tapestry' layered look for Dimitri and it was like doing scenes inside a sauna." This was eventually rectified, but not before the actor lost around twelve pounds in the two weeks.

Michael Nader was fired from All My Children in July 1999, due to budget considerations, and Dimitri was killed off. This led to a fan outcry from viewers who campaigned for the actor's return. To partially appease them, the show's executive producer, Jean Dadario Burke, offered Nader his job back on a recurring basis. He rejected this offer because "after being a major character for so long, it didn't make any sense to me. So I declined. But if the network was interested in seriously discussing Dimitri's return on a contract basis I would love to go back."

In May 2000, he was rehired and brought back into the role with a multi-year contract. The return story scripted for the Dimitri character centered on the romance between his brother Edmund and his wife Alex. Dimitri was revealed to be alive just as his wife, Alex, and brother, Edmund, had sex for the first time. Nader said he wanted to create a deeper layer in the character instead of focusing solely on the love triangle between Dimitri, Alex, and Edmund. "I do hope to pursue some sort of subtle spiritual change, some perception that Dimitri is different," he said. He questioned the writers' storyline choice in not exploring the popular Dimitri and Erica romance again. "I found it sort of odd that they'd move me so far away from Susan[Lucci, Erica]," Nader said. "They're trying to explore these other themes."

Nader lost the role again in February 2001 as a result of the actor getting arrested for allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police officer. All My Children released an official statement saying, "If Mr. Nader gets the help that he needs and addresses his problem, and it makes sense for the show, we would be prepared to speak with Michael in the future." The network put Nader on probation and ordered him to seek help for his problem.

Anthony Addabbo temporarily took over the role, first airing on April 6, 2001. To prepare for the role, he watched tapes of Nader's portrayal of Dimitri in order to see the relationships between Dimitri and other characters. Despite the fan protest against the role being recast, Addabbo told Soap Opera Digest he was not worried. "I don't find it intimidating," he said. "I know how they can come to love a certain actor portraying a role and how he plays the role and everything, but this happens in daytime so frequently that I didn't find it intimidating at all." Soap Opera Digest considered him an odd choice for a Dimitri recast since Addabbo usually portrayed "all-American good guys" such as Generations Jason Craig and Guiding Light's Jim LeMay. A large number of All My Children fans rejected Addabbo in the role and continued to campaign for Nader's return. The controversy forced the writers to lessen Dimitri's role on the show until July 2001 when Addabbo was let go "for storyline reasons", according to ABC's official statement.

During an interview, Nader told Soap Opera Digest that in late September 2001, ABC called a meeting with him to inform him that, though he resolved his personal problems, they had no intention of ever bringing him or the character back due to lack of story. Nader argued that other storyline possibilities existed since he and Dimitri received "a tremendous response" from viewers. "For years, Dimitri and Erica were a popular coupling," he said. "A good friend of mine, Jack Scalia (Chris), is on...that alone would be a dynamic triangle."

In May 2013, following a twelve-year absence from All My Children, Nader was announced to be reprising the role of Dimitri, scheduled to begin in June. Initially his first airdate was 3 June, however, due to Prospect Park's decision to reduce the number of episodes made available each week, he did not air until 12 June.

Development
Former head writers Agnes Nixon and Lorraine Broderick created the character Dimitri Marick in 1991. His original purpose was to rescue Natalie Marlowe from the well her sister, Janet Green, trapped her in. He was also designed as a rival for Natalie's current love interest, Trevor Dillon. Trevor and Natalie were a popular couple at that point and the writers wanted to create a viable obstacle for them. eally exciting, romantic, handsome leading man, so that there would be a real impediment; you know we'd have a really exciting love story between Trevor and somebody as different from Trevor as we could get...because Trevor is a wonderful, warm, teddy bear, lovable, down-to-earth, right-out-there guy- and Dimitri is very much opposite from that." Broderick characterized the character in an interview with Soap Opera Update, stating:

He's certainly a man who wants to be in control. He's a very strong man, he's a very passionate man. He's had a troubled, tragic background, and is just beginning to come out into the world again after being quite reclusive for the past fifteen years. He is guarded, and he plays everything close to the vest. He is very slow to let other people in- except Natalie, with whom he feels a special and unique bond, because he rescued her and because he fell in love with her very quickly, which we hope will be part of the mystery.

Nixon and Broderick also crafted the character as a darkly brooding and mysterious man in the same vein as gothic literary heroes such as Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre, and Maxim de Winter from Rebecca. Nixon used these characters as inspiration for Dimitri because, as she told Soap Opera Weekly, "In doing the 'stolen life' story, I felt that we needed something to follow that was also a little larger than life, very romantic, and gothic." The characters played a part in shaping Dimitri as well as his environment and storylines. Maxim de Winter's estate, Manderley, provided the inspiration for Dimitri's Pine Valley estate, Wildwind. The design was taken from both the description in Du Maurier's book and the depiction from the film Rebecca, a 1940 adaptation of the novel by Alfred Hitchcock. Like Mr. Rochester, the wife Dimitri falsely claims died years ago is revealed to be alive just before his marriage to another woman.

Nixon infused elements of those literatures into the Dimitri and Natalie romance with as well. "There's a gothic quality to it", she said, referring to the couple. "It's Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. Everybody loves somebody who has a past and a secret- and certainly Dimitri does- which we haven't divulged yet. That heightens ones interest and suspense. It's a special situation but what really makes it special is the actor's talent, personalities, good looks, and chemistry." Since the writers created Dimitri as a very mysterious character, Michael Nader mostly stayed away from the press in order to help maintain that image. Whenever he did do an interview, he discussed the character in such a way as to add more mystery. Nader compared Dimitri to the Dynasty character he once portrayed, Dex Dexter. On Dynasty, "John James (Jeff Colby) played the 'aw, shucks;' nice guy, and I played the guy who was on the edge, who would take care of business and not take any bull", he said. "Dimitri is sort of a darker Dex. Though I don't know exactly how dark to make him yet." Nader, as an actor, also provided the writers with more inspiration on the character. "The more we see of him, the more he inspires us", Broderick said. "It's just a wonderful marriage of actor and character[...] He's giving us so many levels and such depth, that it's a challenge. But it's exciting. Dimitri is one of the characters that is so much fun to write."

Backstory
To further the mystery element and add an international twist to the story, Nixon scripted Dimitri as having close European roots, though he is an American. He is the son of Hungarian parents, Hugo and Anna. Originally, his wealth comes from all the land around Pine Valley and the One Life to Live city Llanview, which he inherits from his parents. That is also where his fictional estate, Wildwind, is located. Later, during Dimitri's 1992 story with Erica Kane, he is revealed to also be Hungarian nobility as Count Andrassy. He inherited his title and his Hungarian castle, Vadzel, from his father's side. Both of his parents were dead by the time Dimitri first appears on All My Children. He spends his childhood years growing up in Europe and on the Wildwind estate. He has a complicated relationship with Edmund Gresham, the son of two of his family's employees, unknown to Dimitri to be his half-brother. His childhood sweetheart was Angelique Voynitzeva, the daughter of his nanny, Helga. Helga later becomes his housekeeper. Fifteen years prior to Dimitri's appearance on-screen, he and Angelique married. Angelique becomes pregnant but suffers a miscarriage which devastates both of them. Angelique has a riding accident which leaves her in a coma. Dimitri tries to find a cure, but is unable to and sends her to a clinic in Austria. He becomes reclusive for the next decade because of the guilt he feels over her condition. Finding Natalie in 1991 brings him out into society again.

1991–2001
Dimitri Marick first appears in Pine Valley in 1991 when he rescues Natalie Marlowe from the well her sister, Janet Green, trapped her in on the Wildwind estate. She resembles his comatose wife, Angelique, which attracts him to her. While he nurses her back to health, Dimitri becomes obsessively in love with her. His housekeeper, Helga, who is also Angelique's mother, is not pleased about this. He lies to Natalie that his wife died years ago. Once Natalie recovers and everyone learns what happened to her at Janet's hand, Natalie's fiancé, Trevor Dillon, tries to reconcile with her. Natalie rejects her fiancé, Trevor Dillon, because Janet fooled him into thinking she was Natalie and he slept with her. Dimitri and Natalie become engaged. Unbeknown to Dimitri, Angelique has awoken from her coma and Helga brings her to Dimitri and Natalie's engagement party. Natalie leaves Dimitri and reunites with Trevor. Dimitri reconciles with his wife.

Dimitri begins an affair with Erica Kane. He falls in love with her, but feels he must stay with Angelique. Edmund Grey, the son of a Marick family maid and gardener, returns to town to see Angelique, his close childhood friend. Dimitri is furious to see Edmund again since he had stolen money from Dimitri's father to pay for his education. Dimitri is stunned when Edmund informs him that they are half-brothers. Edmund had discovered this when he found Hugo Marick's will that states he is not only his illegitimate son, but that he is the lawful heir to Wildwind. Helga had planted the will as revenge for Dimitri's affair with Erica, but when Dimitri assures Helga he is now completely devoted to Angelique, she destroys the will in order to keep the estate for her daughter. Edmund files a lawsuit to have Hugo's body exhumed, which causes the hatred between him and Dimitri to deepen even more. Eventually, the truth about what Helga did is revealed and she dies. Dimitri and Edmund agree to put the past behind them and they bond as brothers. They develop an extremely close and loving relationship, but they also continue to have a standing rivalry.

Dimitri ends his marriage to Angelique and marries Erica. The newlyweds settle into Wildwind and Dimitri develops a close relationship with Erica's daughter, Bianca Montgomery. Dimitri's happiness with Erica is disrupted by Erica's vengeful older daughter, Kendall Hart. Kendall tells Dimitri she is in love with him, but he immediately rejects her. As revenge, Kendall implies to Erica that Dimitri sexually assaulted her and Erica, who was raped by Kendall's father Richard Fields, stabs Dimitri in the neck. Erica is charged with attempted murder, but is acquitted.

Another bombshell is dropped in Dimitri's life when he finds out that Anton Lang, who he believed to be brother of his maid Corvina (Margaret Sophie Stein), is actually his son with Corvina. Dimitri had had a drunken one-night stand with Corvina which he had no memory of. Dimitri is happy to finally be a father and attempts to forge relationship with Anton without telling him about his parentage. When the truth finally comes out, Anton is devastated and wants nothing to do with Dimitri. Anton later marries Kendall to throw it in Dimitri's face. Eventually, Anton sees Kendall for the manipulator that she is and divorces her. Anton and Dimitri make peace with each other before Anton leaves town.

During a time when they are both particularly vulnerable, Dimitri and Edmund's wife, Maria, sleep together. When Maria finds out she is pregnant, the baby's paternity is in question. They have a DNA test done and Skye Chandler, who is in love with Edmund, tampers with test so it will show Dimitri is the father when it is in fact Edmund. After Maria confesses everything, a devastated Edmund tells Dimitri that he is dead to him and he will be bringing the child up as his own. Erica also finds out she is pregnant around this time, but miscarries. Maria gives birth to a baby girl with Erica's help. Maria's daughter is presumed dead after a car accident, but she has actually been kidnapped by Erica and named Sonya. Erica eventually returns the baby to Maria and she is renamed Maddie. Maria is later presumed dead in a plane crash. Dimitri discovers that Edmund is Maddie's father when he finds out their blood types do not match. He takes her to Vadzel, but Edmund tracks them down and takes back custody of Maddie. The brothers remain estranged for quite some time, but eventually manage to reconcile. Dimitri leaves Pine Valley permanently in 2001 with his current wife, Alex Devane.

2013
In June 2013, Dimitri received an email from his old friend and former lover Brooke English. Brooke was shocked when Dimitri responded by showing up at her door, and told him that she thought she'd never see him again. Dimitri revealed that he and Alex had divorced, and that he had not bothered remaining in touch with his family and had reverted to his reclusive ways, but that Europe was beginning to bore him and her timing couldn't have been better. Upon returning to town, he stopped by his former residence, Wildwind, only to find that the place was empty. Brooke explained that after its last occupant, Caleb Cortlandt, had moved out, Sam and Maddie, Edmund's children, had not bothered to rent the mansion out again. Dimitri told Brooke that, while at Wildwind, he stopped by the mausoleum and made amends to Edmund, who had died in a fire 8 years earlier.

Brooke explained to Dimitri that she needed someone to oversee the online division of Chandler Media, and she felt Dimitri would be perfect for the job. Dimitri eagerly accepted. Later, Brooke re-introduced Dimitri to J.R. Chandler, who, although appeared happy to see Dimitri, was nonetheless jealous of the fact that Dimitri, and not him, would be overseeing Chandler Media.

As Dimitri and Brooke worked more and more closely together, Dimitri developed feelings for her, which came to a head when he kissed her shortly after the Chandler Media Gala. Brooke told Dimitri that can never happen again, because she is engaged to marry Adam.

Post Cancellation
During a March 2019 episode of General Hospital the character Robert Scorpio tells Anna Devane that he has been in touch with Dimitri related to an investigation into ex-wife Alex's activities, and that Dimitri has handed over records relating to Alex for Anna to review.

In February 2021, Dimitri (with only his hands being seen) mails a letter containing Alex's last will and testament, as well as a USB thumb drive to Peter August (Wes Ramsey). This led to rumors that Dimitri might be making an appearance on General Hospital. However, Michael Nader's death later that same year prevented this from occurring.

Reception
Dimitri became a popular leading man soon after his debut on All My Children in 1991 and "was prominent in some of the show's most memorable tales of that decade." The character and his portrayer, Michael Nader, were credited with lifting the Nielsen ratings as well as saving the Natalie, Trevor, and Janet storyline. In that storyline, the character Janet Green imprisons her sister Natalie in a well and masquerades as Natalie to seduce her fiancé Trevor. Fans and soap opera press criticized the story. In Soap Opera Weekly, Marlena De Lacroix said, "Dimitri was the saving grace of the storyline I'd earlier called an artistic disaster: the Janet and Natalie body switch." She described Dimitri as a "cross between Rudolph Valentino's Sheik and the gothic Maxim de Winter from Rebecca." Viewers found the character "irresistible"; so much so that Soap Opera Digest questioned whether the character was a diversion from the failed storyline. All My Children's head writer Agnes Nixon denied this. "We expected to get negative mail on Janet/Nat," she said, "they [the viewers] don't like it but they [keep] watching."

The character gained further success with the popular Dimitri and Erica pairing. In 1993, viewers named them a supercouple, along with One Life to Live's Bo and Nora and Days of our Lives' Roman and Marlena. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly listed them among the top seventeen supercouples. Soap Opera Digest compared them to the real life couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton because of their tumultuous nature.

The romance between Dimitri and Finola Hughes' Alexandra Devane Marick also rose in popularity. Soap Opera Update named them the best couple of the year in 1999 for All My Children despite the fact that their love story played out through brief flashbacks. The magazine compared the couple's relationship to the television series Once and Again. Soap Opera Update also referred to them as the "break out supercouple of the year".

The Dimitri character took a darker turn in 1997, in what Soap Opera Digest considered an effort to make Erica more sympathetic after her role in the kidnapping of the baby Maddie Grey (then known as Sonya). Soap Opera Digest praised the move in an article naming Nader Performer of the Week, saying, "Nader has been surprisingly effective as a meanie, and nothing short of brilliant taking an already complex character and making him more compelling." Soap Opera Weekly's Gabrielle Winkel expressed similar sentiments, saying, "Michael Nader is far more entertaining and compelling now that Dimitri is out for himself than when he was as Erica's devoted husband...AMC was right on target when it developed Dimitri's dark side. Nader's brooding looks and raspy voice have always given Dimitri that evil edge. Nader, though, wisely keeps Dimitri's obsessiveness sufficiently in check to make it believable." At the conclusion of the storyline Soap Opera Digest again named him Performer of the Week for "unleashing the sort of go-for-broke fury and fray that actors are usually reluctant to release unless they're certain their character is about to be killed off."

Soap Opera Digest noted the rarity of brothers like Edmund Grey and Dimitri Marick. In the soap opera genre, brothers with a standing rivalry as well as a strong fraternal bond are considered to be a rarity. Sisters on soap operas were usually the ones who shared "men, makeup, and misery." Dimitri and Edmund's relationship was scripted as complicated, transitioning between loving and antagonistic. Their relationship gained positive feedback from both viewers and the soap opera media. Soap Opera Digest named them Best Brothers of 1994, saying, "In Michael Nader (Dimitri) and John Callahan (Edmund), AMC has charismatic performers with chemistry, and they're making the most of it." Complications in the brothers' relationship included childhood jealousies, the revelation that they were brothers, Dimitri's one-night stand with Edmund's wife Maria and subsequent question of the paternity of Maddie Grey, and the Dimitri, Alex, and Edmund triangle. Along with the conflict, they displayed a loving relationship where they stood by each other. In describing the relationship, Nader said, "The storyline with Edmund and Dimitri, the Marick brothers, there wasn't a brother duo on television that had the sort of power that John and I could bring to that relationship."

Storylines they featured in met with both praise and negative reactions. With the plot centering on Maddie Grey's paternity and kidnappings, All My Children "fans revolted en masse." Yet Soap Opera Digest hailed the plot as "one of the best told, most fascinating storylines of the year." In the Dimitri, Alex, and Edmund triangle, viewers took two opposing views on which brother should end up with Alex. Soap Opera Weekly proclaimed the triangle a hit, while Soap Opera Update rated it a ten out of ten. In the storyline, Alex and Edmund fall in love while her husband Dimitri is presumed dead. They eventually become engaged. When he returns and witnesses their happy relationship, Dimitri decides not to interfere. "The dilemma for Dimitri is his brother's happiness," Nader said. "As much as he loves Alex, he's made the choice to give her to Edmund." Alex discovers Dimitri alive first. They reunite and engage in sex. Edmund finds out and feels betrayed by them both. The scenes of the confrontation between all three characters was written to express the views of both the Dimitri and Alex and the Edmund and Alex fans. The viewers who rooted for Edmund argued that Dimitri and Alex betrayed him by having sex immediately after reuniting. Viewers who supported Dimitri argued that the reunion was not a betrayal since Dimitri was Alex's husband. Alex ends up with Dimitri, which changes "Edmund from a jaded, one-note character into a far more multidimensional and intriguing hero." Soap Opera Weekly praised All My Children for not dragging the triangle out and instead using it as a catalyst for character development.

Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows put Addabbo's portrayal of the character on his list of the worst soap opera temporary recasts, commenting that "Addabbo lacked the air of Old World regality that Nader exuded, fans balked, and the recast was sent packing before he'd even had time to finish nibbling his Welcome to All My Children gift basket."

Controversy
In what Soap Opera Digest named the year's Dumbest Male Axing in 1999, Nader was fired from the role of Dimitri and the character was killed off. The firing "set off a firestorm of protest from devoted fans." Those fans came together to form a group called the Loyalists and campaigned for the actor's return. They "bombarded" All My Children with letters centering on three major complaints concerning Nader's dismissal, as summarized in Soap Opera Digest: "1) They have waited two years for a Dimitri/Erica reunion, which they won't get now that he's leaving. 2) They adore Nader's chemistry with on-screen brother John Callahan (Edmund) and don't want to lose it. 3) They fear that Nader has been sacrificed to make room in the budget for new- and younger- cast members." In response to the last complaint, an All My Children spokesperson pointed out the storylines planned for characters over thirty years old such as Tad, Dixie, Erica, David, Edmund, and Alex.

Nader thanked the Loyalists for their support and expressed his surprise at the size of the response. "[T]he expanse and impact were quite astounding to me," he said. "In my years of doing this, I never experienced this kind of support." Susan Lucci commented on the fan response, saying, "So many people stop me on the street and ask me, 'Will Dimitri ever come back and will he and Erica ever get together.'"

At a fan luncheon, the Loyalists confronted All My Children's executive producer Jean Dadario Burke with a petition asking for Nader's return. They also organized a tune-out of the show on November 5, 1999. To appease them at least in part, Burke offered Nader his job back on a recurring basis, which he refused. In 2000, All My Children rehired him on a contract basis. His co-star, Hughes was happy about the news, saying his return would "give a huge injection of 'fuel'" to the Alex and Edmund romance.

In 2001, Nader was arrested for cocaine possession. All My Children suspended him and demanded he get treatment. They cast Addabbo in the role as a temporary replacement. Fans of Nader, the Loyalists in particular, rejected the recast. Though the majority of the viewers did not take to him, Addabbo gained an amount of support from fans who wanted him to continue in the role or portray a different character once Nader returned. Soap Opera Digest criticized the casting of Addabbo because the actor usually portrayed "all-American good guys", the opposite of the Dimitri Marick role. In July of that year, Addabbo was let go and Dimitri was officially written out.

After Nader got help for his drug addiction at Hazelton Clinic in Minnesota, All My Children opted not to bring him back. Nader filed a $31.7 million lawsuit against ABC for breach of contract under the Americans with Disabilities Act. ABC's lawyers cited Nader's violation of the morals clause in his contract as justification for not rehiring him. The firing and lawsuit caught the attention of non-soap opera medias such as TV Guide, Inside Edition, People, Celebrity Justice, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, and Larry King Live. Manhattan Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff threw out the suit in 2004.

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Ted McGinley

Ted McGinley (born May 30, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom Married... with Children and as Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith. He was a late regular on Happy Days, Dynasty and The Love Boat and is known for playing the villainous role of Stan Gable in the film Revenge of the Nerds and several made-for-television sequels.

Early life
McGinley grew up in Newport Beach, California. His paternal grandfather was an Irish immigrant. At Newport Harbor High School, he focused on athletics and swimming and was a star player on the water polo team. He also worked as a lifeguard at the beach during summers. After graduation, McGinley attended USC on a water polo scholarship, majoring in urban planning and real estate.

At USC, McGinley was captain and two-time MVP of the water polo team as well as a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. However, in his sophomore year, following recommendation from his girlfriend, McGinley began modeling as a way to break into the acting scene. With his scholarship not renewed, he left USC and moved to New York in 1979.

Career
After a casting director spotted a picture of him in GQ, McGinley was cast on the comedy series Happy Days as Roger Phillips (nephew of the Cunninghams), a role he played from 1980 to 1984. During the run of Happy Days, he landed a role in the comedy film Young Doctors in Love (1982).

After Happy Days ended in 1984, McGinley appeared in Revenge of the Nerds where he played Stanley Gable, the head of the jock-run Alpha Beta fraternity and the primary antagonist of the Lambda Lambda Lambda nerd fraternity; he reprised the role in the third and fourth films in the "Nerds" franchise, both produced for television. He went on to appear in regular roles on television series including The Love Boat and Dynasty. He then played the role of Al Bundy's best friend Jefferson D'Arcy on Married... with Children from 1991 to 1997, describing it as a "great, great gig." He had recurring roles on Aaron Sorkin's television series Sports Night as Dana's boyfriend Gordon, and The West Wing as a television news anchor. From 2003 to 2006, he played Charley Shanowski on Hope & Faith.

Two years later, he was selected for a role in Charlie Lawrence, a situation comedy about a freshman congressman from New Mexico, played by Nathan Lane. McGinley played Graydon Ford, the neighbor of Lane's title character, who was a member of the opposing political party. McGinley was also in the pilot for the 2002 CBS show Life of the Party, playing a senator.

His guest star roles include series such as Fantasy Island (1982), Hotel (1985–87), Perfect Strangers (1988), B.L. Stryker (1989), Evening Shade (1990), Dream On (1991), The John Larroquette Show (1995–96; 1997–1998), The Practice (2001), and Justice League (2002).

During and shortly after the run of Married … With Children, McGinley was a part of many films and television films, playing different types of characters. In 1993, he played Mr. Scream in Wayne's World 2. That same year, McGinley affected a Southern accent in his role in the miniseries Wild Justice, which was poorly received by critics. Some of his television film roles were very dark. In 1996, he was the star of Deadly Web, a film that aired on NBC in 1996 and co–starred his wife, Gigi Rice. The film was about a woman who was stalked on the Internet. McGinley played one of his darkest roles in 1998 in the television film Every Mother's Worst Fear. He played Mitch Carson, a sexual predator who lures a teenage girl into his house, where he holds her captive and tortures her.

In 2008, McGinley became a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, and was paired with pro dancer Inna Brayer. He was the second contestant to be eliminated in the competition.

"Jumping the Shark"
McGinley was called "the patron saint of shark-jumping" by jumptheshark.com founder Jon Hein. This is a reference to the popular and enduring shows which have featured him in their latter years, often to replace a departing regular cast member. Hein writes that this is not a comment "on Ted's fine acting skills" and that "he has a great sense of humor about it, too." In one episode of Married... with Children, McGinley himself spoofed his reputation by asking Al Bundy, "Another picture, Captain? I mean, Fonzie? ....Al?" In 2003, McGinley told Melanie McFarland of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "I've had a lot of fun with it. To be honest with you, it's meant people are still talking about me. It's kind of doing me a favor. And people keep hiring me, so I know that I'm okay, jumping the shark."

In 2011, McGinley again made fun of his "shark-jumping" abilities in "Mitefall!", the final episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. In the episode, Bat-Mite (voiced by Paul Reubens) wants the show to be cancelled to usher in a new TV show called Beware the Batman. To that end, he starts replacing aspects of the show, including switching Aquaman's regular voice actor, John DiMaggio, with McGinley. Ambush Bug (voiced by McGinley's Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler) helps to reverse the situation, in part by getting McGinley to break character and leave, forcing DiMaggio's voice back into Aquaman.

Personal life
McGinley married actress Gigi Rice in 1991 and they have two sons, Beau (born 1994) and Quinn. They reside in Los Angeles.

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Forbidden Planet (retail chain)

Forbidden Planet is the trading name of three separate businesses with online and retail bookstores selling science fiction, fantasy and popular culture products. The original store was opened in London in 1978 named after the 1956 feature film of the same name.

Stores under Forbidden Planet Limited are a division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment. Specialising in film and television merchandise, the shops sell comic books, graphic novels, fantasy and horror, manga, DVDs, video games, and a wide variety of co-branded edition/collector's items, promotional apparel and merchandise and collector's items.

Founding
Forbidden Planet London was the third major comics store in the city, eventually replacing what had been the leading shop, Derek Stokes's Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, which had started in 1969, and coming after Frank and Joan Dobson's Weird Fantasy in New Cross. Much of FP's growth came after the demise of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, which went out of business in 1981. Mike Lake, Nick Landau, and Mike Luckman founded Forbidden Planet alongside Titan Distributors (Titan having grown out of Comic Media Distributors).

The first Forbidden Planet began life in 1978 as a small store in Denmark Street. Visitors to the store included Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Douglas Adams. When Adams attempted to attend a signing for the first The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy book in 1979, the queue to the shop was so long that Adams thought a demonstration was taking place elsewhere. As the scope of the store expanded beyond comics to embrace film and television, a second store was opened just around the corner on St Giles High Street. The store's success led to overcrowding, necessitating a move to much larger premises on New Oxford Street.

The original partners, in addition to improving their London store, paired with James Hamilton and Kenny Penman (today the main shareholders in Forbidden Planet International with Andrew Oddie, Richard Boxall and Colin Campbell) to open other stores. Penman and Hamilton were owners of one of the UK's oldest comics and SF stores, Science Fiction Bookshop, in Edinburgh, which opened around 1975.

The first New York store opened in the early 1980s. It was originally located at 56 East 12th Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village. The store had one of the most extensive selections in the world of in-print science fiction and fantasy paperbacks, primarily from major genre labels such as Ballantine, Del Rey, Ace, and so on, but also some small press materials. There were also large and small press magazines, some hardbacks, tie-in toys and merchandise, and comics. They occasionally had book signing appearances by famous authors such as Douglas Adams. The location across the street from the Strand Bookstore and less than a mile from Baird Searles' The Science Fiction Shop made the area a mecca for genre fans.

An additional New York store opened in the mid-1980s at 227 East 59th Street in Lenox Hill, with a smaller selection. Rising rent led to its closure in the 1990s. In the 1990s, the primary New York store moved across the street to a significantly smaller space at 840 Broadway and East 13th Street, and the focus became comic books and graphic novels, with a greatly diminished selection of traditional fiction.

Expansion
In 1992/1993, the original chain split into two firms, called Forbidden Planet and Forbidden Planet Scotland (later renamed Forbidden Planet International). Forbidden Planet International grew beyond Scotland to include stores throughout the Midlands, in Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and majority ownership of two stores in New York.

On 30 September 2003, the London store moved to larger premises at the northern end of Shaftesbury Avenue.

Forbidden Planet opened a second Megastore in Clifton Heights in Bristol in 2005, and a third in Southampton in 2007. In 2006 the company launched forbiddenplanet.com, an e-commerce retail site offering a wide range of products and hosting details of the company's many events and signings.

On 24 July 2012, the New York City store moved several doors south to 832 Broadway, where it would enjoy 3,400 square feet of retail space. The New York store is not part of Forbidden Planet International, as they are owned by rival organizations.

Like many comics and gaming related stores, Forbidden Planet struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. The New York branch launched a GoFundMe to survive, in light of the city's high rent.

Forbidden Planet Limited
Forbidden Planet Limited is division of Titan Entertainment and operate a chain of nine stores around England and an online presence at ForbiddenPlanet.com. They also host signings and events with authors, artists, and other figures from cult media.

 * Birmingham
 * Bristol
 * Cambridge
 * Coventry
 * Croydon
 * Liverpool
 * London
 * Newcastle Upon Tyne
 * Southampton

Forbidden Planet International
A separate company owned by some of Forbidden Planet's original founders.
 * Belfast
 * Birmingham (Worlds apart, formerly Nostalgia & Comics; Associate Store)
 * Brighton
 * Cardiff
 * Dublin
 * Edinburgh
 * Glasgow
 * Kingston upon Hull
 * Leeds
 * Leicester
 * Liverpool (Worlds Apart; Associate Store)
 * Manchester
 * Middlesbrough
 * Nottingham
 * Sheffield
 * Stoke-on-Trent - Hanley
 * Wolverhampton

Forbidden Planet NYC
Spin-off Forbidden Planet NYC is an independent store in New York City.

In comics

 * The Denmark Street store appeared in a Captain Britain story that ran in The Daredevils issues No. 3 and No. 4 (March–April 1983).
 * The 1987 comic book The New Mutants Annual No. 3 features a scene in which a global duel between Warlock and Impossible Man ruins the London shop and the car of founder Mike Lake, who is horrified at the damage.
 * Landau, Luckman, and Lake, a fictional organisation appearing in Marvel Comics, is named for the original three founders.
 * The New York store was featured in an issue of The Authority vol. 4, No. 2 (November 2008). When the eponymous superhero team ends up in the real world, they visit Forbidden Planet and discover comic books that feature them.
 * In the foreword to the 2015 Artist's Proof Edition of The Walking Dead No. 1, editor Sean Mackiewicz states that he was first drawn to the 2003 debut issue of that series through the artwork of co-creator Tony Moore, when he discovered the issue at the Forbidden Planet store in Manhattan, commenting, "the old one on the southeast corner of 13th & Broadway".

In media

 * One of the potential flatmates interviewed in the 1994 feature film Shallow Grave prominently holds a Forbidden Planet carrier bag.
 * The Forbidden Planet London Megastore was featured in the tenth series, episode six of the British TV series The Apprentice in which the contestants visit the store to pitch a board game idea to the store manager.
 * In the 2011 fantasy novel Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, Darquesse crashes through the Dublin store's window and remarks, "A comic store. How fitting."

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Laura San Giacomo

Laura San Giacomo (born November 14, 1961 or 1962  ) is an American actress. She played Cynthia in the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman (1990), Crazy Cora in the film Quigley Down Under (1990), Nadine Cross in The Stand (1994), and Maya Gallo on the sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003). A BAFTA and two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she played the regular role of Rhetta Rodriguez on the drama Saving Grace (2007–2010), and the recurring role of Dr. Grace Confalone on the drama NCIS (2016–2022).

Early life and education
San Giacomo, an Italian-American, was born November 14, 1961 or 1962,  in West Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of MaryJo and John San Giacomo, a paper mill owner. She grew up in Denville Township, New Jersey, and discovered acting while attending Morris Knolls High School. In 1984, she received a fine arts degree, specializing in acting, from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh.

Career
After graduating, she moved to New York. San Giacomo then went on to appear in several theater productions, including the Garry Marshall–Lowell Ganz production of Wrong Turn at Lungfish in Los Angeles, the Princeton/McCarter Theatre production of Three Sisters, and off-Broadway in Beirut. She starred in Italian American Reconciliation, regional productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet as well as Crimes of the Heart. In a review of the Walnut Street Theatre 1986 presentation of As You Like It, San Giacomo received a special mention: "although doll-like Laura San Giacomo had only a minor role as a wilful shepherdess, she sank her fangs into it and received the only show-interrupting applause of the evening."

Early career
San Giacomo's first television appearances were four episodes on three television series during 1987. Two notable appearances were in Crime Story in 1988 for the episode "Protected Witness" (season 2/episode 13) as Theresa Farantino and in Miami Vice in 1989 for the episode "Leap of Faith" (season 5, episode 21) as Tania Lewis. The Miami Vice episode also featured a guest appearance by her future husband, actor Cameron Dye, one year before their marriage. Previously, she was featured on the daytime soap opera All My Children as Louisa Sanchez, the Latina common-law wife of Mitch Beck (Brian Fitzpatrick) whose presence threatened to thwart his relationship with Hillary Martin (Carmen Thomas).

San Giacomo first drew international attention in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), which was her film debut as a credited actor (in the 1988 movie Miles from Home, her role as Sandy was not credited). Her work in the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and she received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award. The film was honored with the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or.

In 1990, San Giacomo played a supporting role as Julia Roberts's character's wisecracking roommate Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman. The film generated $178 million at the box office.

San Giacomo also has appeared in Quigley Down Under (1990), Vital Signs (1990), Under Suspicion (1991), Once Around (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), and Suicide Kings (1997). She also appeared as Nadine Cross in the Stephen King miniseries The Stand with Rob Lowe, which landed them on the cover of the May 7–13, 1994 issue of TV Guide. She continued doing films, and as 1999 ended, she did the film Eat Your Heart Out. In 2001, San Giacomo landed the starring role in the Jenifer Estess bio-pic Jenifer.

San Giacomo did voice work for the animated series Gargoyles (as the character of Fox). However, she went uncredited for the role because her agent believed it would damage her reputation to have worked on an animated series.

Just Shoot Me!
Needing to work, but not wanting to be away from her newborn son for months at a time, San Giacomo shifted to television in the role of hot-tempered, sassy journalist Maya Gallo in Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003). Her character was partially based on an unproduced idea that executive producer Steven Levitan once had in mind for actress Janeane Garofalo when he was a writer for The Larry Sanders Show. San Giacomo was cast in the starring role because the series was meant to center on her character; however, the show soon adopted an ensemble style. Despite the shift in focus, San Giacomo remained an integral part of the show, and she received top billing. She and the four other main cast members appeared in all 148 episodes of the series, which lasted until 2003.

San Giacomo's work during season 2 (1997–1998) earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1998 for Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical.

Post-Just Shoot Me! and appearances
After NBC cancelled Just Shoot Me! in 2003, San Giacomo appeared sporadically on television and in films. She made guest appearances on several television series, including the short-lived crime drama The Handler in 2003 and Unscripted in 2005. She was the narrator for the series Snapped: Killer Couples. San Giacomo also appeared in the 2005 films Checking Out and Havoc as well as the 2006 film Conquistadora. San Giacomo was to have made her return to television on The WB's new drama Related in 2005, but the character was recast due to creative differences. Kiele Sanchez took her place as Anne Sorelli on the show. San Giacomo also made few public appearances; she made her first public appearance in nearly a year on 19 October 2005 at the 15th Annual Environmental Media Awards. She made two more public appearances at the Crystal and Lucy Awards on 6 June 2006 and at the 3rd Annual Alfred Mann Foundation Innovation and Inspiration Gala on 9 September 2006.

In 2006, San Giacomo returned to network television with three guest appearances on the third season of Veronica Mars. She reunited with Enrico Colantoni from Just Shoot Me!, playing Harmony Chase. Both Colantoni and San Giacomo enjoyed their reunion so much that they lobbied for their characters to appear together in more episodes.

In September 2006, San Giacomo secured her first starring role on a television program after Just Shoot Me! when she reunited with fellow Carnegie-Mellon alum Holly Hunter in the series Saving Grace. San Giacomo played Grace's best friend Rhetta Rodriguez.

In June 2010, San Giacomo guest-starred in the episode titled "Death Becomes Her" on the series In Plain Sight. She played a woman from an organized crime family with a terminal illness. In December 2011, San Giacomo appeared on the episode titled "Beards" on Hot in Cleveland as Caroline, Melanie's estranged sister.

Personal life
San Giacomo has been married twice. Her first marriage (1990–1998) was to actor Cameron Dye, with whom she had a son, Mason, who was born with cerebral palsy. In 2000, she remarried, to actor Matt Adler. She is a cousin of Torry Castellano, former drummer of the rock group The Donnas.

She lives in the San Fernando Valley, California.

Philanthropy
San Giacomo has been honored by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, by Media Access for a TV public service announcement on "Inclusive Education" (in The More You Know), by Shane's Inspiration with its Humanitarian Award, and Redbook's Mother and Shaker Award. She has been a keynote speaker at various conferences for TASH and CalTASH, which promote an inclusive society, and at two conferences sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, and at the Young Neuroscientists' Workshop for the Children's Neurobiological Solutions Foundation (now the Pediatric Brain Foundation).

In 2021, she was listed as the board secretary of the international wheelchair-charity Momentum Wheels for Humanity, and honorary chair of the Environment of People Foundation, Inc., a charity promoting music opportunities for children.

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Talk:CD player

References?
I'm having problems refering to the proper sources of the data. I'm basing this article in the redbook standard and a few service manuals of CD players. The standard is not freely available and I think the manuals are copyrighted so I should add them anyways?

Also, part of this has a different language publication as a source, I don't know if that is going to represent a problem.

Zim 256 (talk) 16:01, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

 * Citing copyrighted material is not a problem if you aren't linking to the content. Linking to copyrighted content is a gray area, compare Talk:Conventional_PCI and Citing_sources. Languages other than English are alright, see WP:NONENG and WP:NONENGEL. You can indicate the source language using the language parameter of the various citation templates (, etc) or by using Template:Link language. Conquerist (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Added (adding actually) How it works
This has a "work in progress" status. I will keep updating and adding as I get the time.

Zim 256 (talk) 14:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Pickup mechanisms, features, pictures
This part needs clarification, citation or discussion "The radial mechanism works best for CD-ROMs, though, as the speed of the disc increases". I think that's false, the swing arm mechanism provides higher seek speed than a linear movement based on the rotation of a motor.
 * The problem isn't seek speed - it's that a swing-arm mech conventionally only has a single actuator for both seek and tracking, and it's carrying the substantial moving mass of the whole optical pickup assembly. As the disc speed increases, the required bandwidth of the tracking error signal also increases, and moving the whole pickup at those frequencies would require excessive power.  The linear mechs have this feedback split into low frequency (sled) and high frequency (lens positioner) components anyway, so it's a lot more tractable.
 * Another consideration (although less important) is that single beam pickups have a wider capture range for both focus and tracking and produce a correspondingly smaller error signal - this can obviously be addressed by using more servo gain, but servos with high gain and wide bandwidth (needed because of the higher disc speed) tend to be more difficult to stabilize. 116.76.111.53 (talk) 03:36, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

The article needs a picture of the swing arm mechanism to illustrate. The 3-beam tracking mechanism is introduced but no mention of the single beam is made, also no description about how any one works. "Interpolation, while not usually advertised, is present in most recent CD players. Interpolation is a way to correct errors that may be present on a compact disc, perhaps due to dust, scratches or dirt." Interpolation is a part of the Compact disc standard and thus, present on all CD players to date, since the CD101 or CD100 to the latest in production. Zim 256 (talk) 00:04, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

I did a couple of edits on the article and added some info and pictures. Replaced the picture showing just a player lens with one that I think is more complete showing the underlining workings. Fixed all the issues I presented in the previous message. I know this shouldn't be on the talk page but bear with me, I'm new on this and forgot to add my reasons after each edit. Zim 256 (talk) 04:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Redirect?
True or false: this article can re-direct to Comact disc. 66.32.132.150 00:30, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * It can, but lets just keep this as per the mentioned criticism about the CD players. (unsigned comment from anon)
 * To Comact disc?! Is this a joke? Or are there countries which have technology of this name? Rintrah 14:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

This is not
This article is a STUB???

The Fox Man of Fire 16:54, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Removed stub --Lenilucho 18:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Why is there no history of the CD Player? Who invented it? When? First commercial model...etc
 * The history is on the Compact Disc article.--Lenilucho 18:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

CD Life span
"If proper care is taken, a CD can be played indefinitely without any loss in audio quality." Aside from the lack of citation (as far as I can tell), I once heard that CDs have a shelf life of around 50 years... might be worth investigating

In fact, this entire page seems to be lacking citations Hydroksyde 23:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * This is true (not necesarily 50 years, the time depends on the brand of the media). But the article refers to the fact that a CD does not worn like an LP or a cassette, because of the lack of friction of the system itself.--Lenilucho 01:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps, but that revert was unnecessary, as I didn't change any information, just added the citation/unreferenced templates. Just even if something is true, it *still* needs references, see Verifiability. Hydroksyde 06:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Ok, I added information. Do you think the "citation needed" is still necesary?--Lenilucho 03:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

 * You've missed my point entirely. You can't just write things down off the top of your head. You need to find any information you add in a reputable publication (eg a book, or a reputable newspaper), that can be verified, and reference this information appropriately. Hydroksyde 05:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Ok, I get it. I have no idea where to find such information. May be on Sony/Philips/TDK or similar websites? --Lenilucho 06:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Only Critisms?
CDs aren't all bad, otherwise they would have been phased away a long time ago. This article only discusses the critisms of the CD and CD players. Today, there are more modern players/burners which are now more capable and less cubersome in the past. This article resembles more like a stub than an article. This article should have some advantages included. This article should also have a complete explanation of how it works and how it reads CDs.

Copyedits and article tone
I have made several copyedits, which hopefully make the article more readable. I removed much of language of the kind (exaggerated here for effect): CD players are cool, but they, like, suck compared to other technologies, like DVDs which have scrolling interface user-friendly text.

In future, please restrict the content to objective descriptions, and refrain from reviewing the technology.

If the copy-edit tag remains, I might return later to tamper with the rest of the article. Rintrah 12:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I've gone over and done the copyediting I can do, but the interface section still needs work. It doesn't actually describe the interface of a CD player, but rather compares it to the interface of an MP3 player. I also removed the following:

"For the home consumer, some options exist: Sony XL1 (or XL1B2) - a Windows Media Center based disc changer, for local (MCE) use only PowerFile For larger enterprise solutions, the following are available: PowerFile (A3 and PSA models) JVC Pionneer (DRM series) PoINT Software (www.pointsoft.de) - develops software to manage CD/DVD changers in corporate environments (supplements enterprise features)" Wikipedia is not a product quide.

I will remove the copyedit tags and add a expand tag to the interface section if I can't find any info to add to it. Natalie 17:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

user interface
Removed the following from "User Interface": "Compared to digital audio players, which have screens, CD players are most often less user-friendly, because tracks are numbered rather than displayed with text. However, CD-Text has overcome these aforementioned limitations; so text is displayed with the CD player software available on computers and modern CD players.  Tray numbers on CD changers are often confusing for those who want to select individual tracks.  MP3 players, which list tracks in alphabetical order, however, are easier to use."

Uncited POV. If readding, please provide citations. Natalie 19:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

iPod
Article says "the first generation iPod can hold an equivalent of 5 discs with a 128k sample rate for each song". But the first generation iPods are 5GB, which is more than 5 CDs or 5*700MB=3500MB, and that's lossless, not 128kbps. At 128kbps it should store >60 CDs. Shawnc 04:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Mega-disc CD players
I've added some info on the mega-disc type of CD changers. Some info on impact of Hard disk based MP3 player on the mega-disc changer market would be useful. Do they still make this type of changer? Also their have been some combo CD players/HD-based mp3 player systems on the market at various times that allowed CD's inserted into them to be ripped to an internal HD drive on the unit. They where offered as a alternative to using a computer for this task. These units where designed exclusively for playing digital music through one's stereo system and where not very portable. If anyone has any info on this type of CD/MP3 combo player then please add it. --Cab88 08:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Slot-loading interface?
I can't seem to find any information on the slot loading interface common with laptop computers and many car stereos. Should a section be added about this format? ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Portable CD Player merge
I am suggesting that Portable CD Player be merged into this article. There is no reason to have a separate article on it, especially when it can fit neatly into this article. Anakinjmt 21:24, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Oppose The article has a good amount of information and deserves to have its own article. Limetolime (talk) 16:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Support I don't think there is that much information on Portable CD Player. It could be incorporated into one or two paragraphs here.  Some of it can be removed... listing the Stop and Play buttons etc. is kind of silly.  Fritter (talk) 15:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Conditional support: the Portable CD Player article is lacking authorative resources, whereas Compact Disc player has some references that are properly cited referenced and work to its advantage. Hence, I believe Portable CD Player should have some better references which are equal in quality or better then Compact Disc Player. This being said, I believe this can be fixed by a merger and sharing the same references. For example, the references at Compact Disc Player (here)can most likely be of used to describe Portable CD player. Furthermore "CD" is also an acronym for for Compact Disc, this could be elaborated within the first few sentences. I believe we have an unintentional content fork per WP:CFORK and I recommend that Wikipedia's policy at CFORK be closely observed for this case. Here is where my conditional support enters into the equation: If, for some reason Portable CD Player, within the next 7 days can have some authorative references then I believe this merger should be re-evaluated and that the articles should remain seperate, per the status quo; That's until everyone has the time to re-evaluate  the changes. (I no way does this mean that I support seperate articles. Even if Portable CD Player is magically improved to a featured article status I still believe it would need to be re-evaluated. What I mean by this, is exactly what I said, if the article Portable CD Player is improved it should be re-evaluated, otherwise I believe the two articles should be merged one into the other. Finally, I believe this merger idea is supported by wikipedia's policy WP:CFORK. --CyclePat (talk) 15:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Support and Oppose Portable CD Player doesn't have much information, so I guess it should merge. But, I also think that when it merges (if it merges of course.. no reason for assuming) that we should be able to easily find information for the Portable CD Player instead of.. for example, having to look through the "History" section of the article to find the History of the Portable CD Player. That's one of the reasons I may oppose this. I oppose more than I support.--Xxhopingtearsxx (talk) 23:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Oppose The subject Portable Cd Players needs its own article due to the huge number of people who are searching this phrase. According to search statistics data from KeywordDiscovery.com, there are as many people as a third of the number of people who search for Cd Players, who search for Portable Cd Players. Therefore, the subject needs its own article that may as good as possible provide the searcher with as correlating information as possible. Analogically, there are many types of cars. Sports cars, vintage cars, race cars etc etc. These have their own articles in wikipedia. When people search these things, a wikipedia article for each comes up. There may be some brief comments in the Cd Player article about Portable Cd Players that links there.

 * Oppose Portable Cd players were one of the most popular portable audio player in early 2000. Despite the lack of information in the article, the subject is important enough to have it's own article. C'mon, merging this is like saying that in 5 years from now mp3 player wouldn't need a separate article. talking Ch e rry 23:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Anything about MP3 CD players?
Is there anything in this article about CD players that can play discs contating MP3 files (not analog audio, but digital files)? I want to add a little something to digital audio player, as it is sorely lacking of it, except the Phillips MP3 CD player pic. Thanks! --Jw 21 / PenaltyKillah VANucks 07:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposed move

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The result of the move request was: page moved to CD player.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 00:48, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Compact Disc player → Compact disc player – Compact Disc was recently moved to Compact disc This article should use lowercase "d" for to be consistent. Voortle (talk) 12:24, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support as uncontroversial/technical move. --BDD (talk) 20:12, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'd think CD player would be simple enough - see CD single. Unreal7 (talk) 22:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose, in favor of a move to CD player. Similar to that of this discussion back in June. — Statυs  ( talk,  contribs ) 23:02, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's probably even better. --BDD (talk) 04:22, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I oppose the change but support the change to "CD player". Who actually says "compact disc player"? AnimatedZebra (talk) 14:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Commonly used term is CD player. Binksternet (talk) 15:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support move to CD player. Portable CD player already uses it. RightGot (talk) 21:16, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Should be at CD player. Note that while portable CD player exists, portable compact disc player and portable Compact Disc player don't, which just shows that "compact disc player" is a rare term. 4.238.1.197 (talk) 01:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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Not making sense:
The last part about computer-based CD changers compares them with hard drives. Yet at that time when they existed (stated to be circa 1990), no CDs were Read-Write like a hard drive — CD's were read only. The R/W technology for CD's didn’t exist yet.

1) So what was the purpose of the changers, since it clearly wasn’t to replace hard drive capacity? Like a huge ROM? This is not clear at all.

2) Perhaps there shouldn’t be any comparison with hard drives.

3) The purpose of the changers should be given in the article. JWmpls (talk) 01:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

 * Someone just made up this whole section. I have removed it. Kendall-K1 (talk) 04:03, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

CD Changers were popular with BBS operators. It provided a way to make several GBs of files available for a fraction of the cost of storing those files on hard drives. However, they did not work well for a BBS with multiple users online simultaneously if users wanted to download files from different discs due to disc swapping. CorriganJohn (talk) 01:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

CD player
External links Mahita Masud (talk) 19:08, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Digital outputs?
The article covers data conversion through the player's DAC into analogue outputs, but appears to be missing what happens when the CD player is equipped with digital outputs: coaxial and optical (TOSLINK). 182.239.149.95 (talk) 05:53, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate History sections
is substantially the same as the history section in this article. The scope of the content of both sections is beyond CD players so I propose to remove the duplicated content here and replace it with a link or reference to. ~Kvng (talk) 22:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

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No premiere at Grauman's Chinese
I've removed the part about the film having its Hollywood premiere at Grauman's Chinese and playing there from April to September. It was not in the citation given (a review of the film in Harrison's Reports) and my own attempts to get a proper cite through contemporary sources turned up empty.

The film opened at "11 theatres simultaneously" in Los Angeles on March 28 (as per page 3 of the March 22, 1956 issue of Motion Picture Daily) but a dig through the archives of the Los Angeles Times shows that Grauman's was not one of them. A article in that paper from March 21, 1956, p. 27 identifies the eleven theatres as "State, Hawaii, UA Pasadena, Garmar Montebello and seven drive-ins." The website graumanschinese.org/1956.html lists what was playing at Grauman's throughout 1956 and Forbidden Planet was not listed there either. Cbj77 (talk) 06:58, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Bellerophon
Just a "See Also" to Bellerophon. Aside from just the name the character, a Greek hero, battles a chimera which is how the monster from the id is described. He kills it with lead. The ships power needed lead for its use in the battle. In Bellerophon's hubris after success in his Periclean/Herculean tasks he attempts to rise to Olympus. 98.164.98.125 (talk) 13:58, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Feel free to assemble your reliable sources and add relevant content to the article. This is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. TwoTwoHello (talk) 14:22, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Home Media
The Home Media section jumps forward then backward in chronology: "... in 1996, it was again re-issued" is followed by the "later" release of the Criterion laserdisc, which was actually released ca. 1990. I think the Criterion reference probably preceded the 1996 text in an earlier version then got shifted out. If any of the original contributors are around, it would be best for someone who has a handle on the dates to revise the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClassicCraig (talk • contribs) 02:26, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Stephen Baxter quote re ST & FP
I added this sourced quote from well-known SF author Stephen Baxter: "SF author Stephen Baxter wrote in 2006 that Forbidden Planet could be considered as the first pilot for Star Trek." [42, source in history] Editor Clarityfiend reverted the add twice, commenting "Baxter can say what he wants. Star Trek has recognized pilots, and FP isn't one of them."

Which, of course, isn't what Baxter is saying. I think Baxter's well-sourced opinion is worth adding. Clarityfiend doesn't think so. Other opinions, please? Thanks, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * No. Not notable in the least. 50.111.30.135 (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Just another opinion. It may be "well-sourced," but it is not particularly notable.  Sir Rhosis (talk) 12:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Star Trek's debt to FP is well-known, but his comment is of no added value. 50.111.46.61 (talk) 20:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

needed RS information for additional tidbits
The distance to Altair, and the travel time stated in the film, gives a speed for the trip around 16 times the speed of light - is this mentioned in any source known to any editors? -HammerFilmFan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.46.61 (talk) 20:17, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

The machine as progenitor of the Earth's animals
Dr.Morbius explains in the film that the Krell had visited the Earth and took examples of the Earth's animals to the planet. The machine did not create the animals. 2600:1017:B109:8D5C:145D:57E7:EA9:654B (talk) 23:04, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Nobody said it did. Where did you get that idea? The only animal it creates, as far as the viewer knows, is Altaira's tiger. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:25, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Popular Culture
Forbidden Planet and star Anne Francis are named in the opening song "Science Fiction Double Feature" in the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show" and in the subsequent "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" movie. 74.127.201.65 (talk) 09:49, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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