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- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Sony Equipment (was Re: CD walkmans)
- Message-ID: <C05H18.3As@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <44031@zygot.ati.com> <BzwnwB.309@world.std.com> <1992Dec27.233644.10345@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <Bzy9pI.EEJ@world.std.com> <1huc97INNnv1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:51:08 GMT
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- lcc@po.CWRU.Edu (Lih C. Chen) writes:
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- >>In article <Bzy9pI.EEJ@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
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- >>>Whether this is true or just utter bullshit I have no idea, but I
- >>>did notice an article in _Popular Science_ recently noting that Sony had
- >>>passed a milestone in laser technology, creating a narrower beam that
- >>>would allow something like 2-3 hours of music on one CD...as long as the
- >>>CD player was in a room about 150 degrees below zero.
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- >Following this train of thought, I have a question for you technical
- >folx out there: Is it implied, then, that playing 2-3 hours of music,
- >even when you have to go through 2 or 4 CDs to do that, at regular
- >room temperature is bad for your current CD player?
-
- No no no...that's not what I meant. It's not that playing too many CDs in
- a row is bad for your player; it's that the new technology Sony has in the
- lab won't operate unless the temperature is around -150. It's sort of
- like superconducting materials testing; physics lets a lot of things
- happen in the cold that it won't let happen in normal temp ranges...at
- least, not until we find a way around it. :)
-
- --Aaron
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