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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: More CD skipping...
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:23:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.232317.20642@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov16.235544.24722@raven.alaska.edu> <1992Nov17.103254.881@cmkrnl.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.103254.881@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.235544.24722@raven.alaska.edu>,
- > fsgab@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Grant A Beaugard) writes:
-
- >> What about near-new, unscratched CDs which skip?
-
- >> Is this an error in encoding? A slightly different type of encoding?
- >> Error-correction errors? Enquiring minds want to know.
-
- >This is due to small differences in the track pitch between European and
- >domestic CD mastering plants. CD players and disks intended for the U.S.
- >market are set up based on the Engligh system of measurements, while European
- >ones go by metric-based standards. You can often get a metric CD to play on an
- >English player, or vice versa, but it's like trying to use an SAE socket wrench
- >on the head of a metric-sized bolt... it just doesn't fit very well.
-
- >:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-
- Now Jamie, you are only 2/3 correct!
-
- Everyone knows that the English use Whitworth. It's the Europeans and
- Far-East that use metric. And the yanks use SAE.
-
- >:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-
- (If you don't understand the above - you've never been around a vintage
- English car. Can you imagine having three sets of wrenches!)
-
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