On Friday 09 May 2008 16:42, Arfa Daily wrote:

That's certainly a possibility. The servo data strippers and loops, are
quite sensitive bits of circuitry in CD players, and these caps are glued
straight on the end of pins on the servo processor chip, so they may well be
decouplers or timing caps.

Arfa

I would hope that all timing is done with a clock pulse, based on a crystal.
Caps used for timings yield very unstable circuits, at least where high
frequencies are concerned, such as FM transmitters.