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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tous!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Analog CDs (was: CD Sound Quality)
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 15:52:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.155249.11374@bilver.uucp>
- References: <BzoKMn.4oB@ssesco.com> <1992Dec24.180134.9008@tc.fluke.COM> <PHR.92Dec25153015@napa.telebit.com>
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- In article <PHR.92Dec25153015@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
-
- > You're too pessimistic. Analog recording on a 12cm disc could hold as
- > much as 26 hours of CX encoded sound.
-
- >Something like this would probably send record company executives
- >through the roof, especially if it were consumer recordable. :-(
-
- Well - it's been thought of. When Sony was doing their first
- digital disc research they figured that you could easily put a
- days worth of music on a 12" disk.
-
- They could envinsion no scenarios where consumers would wan't
- to buy something that long, so they scrapped that idea. It
- took Philips to reduce the size of the disc. And then with the
- joint Sony/Philips venture the current CD size was finally
- standardized on - legend has it was that it was to a length of
- a favorite piece of music for one of the Sony executives - or
- something like that. Sony just couldn't see the forest
- because of the trees.
-
-
-
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill@bilver.uucp
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