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- From: znpt01@trc.amoco.com (Norman P. Tracy)
- Subject: Re: Information capacity of a CD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.094337@trc.amoco.com>
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- Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
- References: <1992Dec29.035621.15688@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:43:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.035621.15688@cis.ohio-state.edu>, rviswana@bagpipe.cis.ohio-state.edu (r viswanathan) writes:
- > Can someone tell me how many minutes of music can be stored on a
- > CD.(Theoretically). I have seen some CDs which store nearly 80 minutes.
- > And some store just 35 mins or so.
-
- When mastered with the approved 1.0 micron pit to pit and track to track
- spacing the limit is 74 minutes. The recommended 74 min. limit is exceeded
- by setting up the mastering lathe so its laser 'cuts' the pits at a 0.9 or
- 0.8 micron spacing. They can also push the limits of the inner and outer
- radius where the tracks start or end.
- >
- > Does reproduction suffer if more music is crammed into a CD (like an LP)?
-
- No. Any CD from 0 to 74 min. meets the Sony/Philips standard. Once the 74
- min. 'limit' is exceeded sound quality will NOT suffer IF the individual
- player can track the closer than spec. pits. Record companies who get CDs
- mastered with +74 min. are relying on the fact that the average CD player
- tracks much better than envisioned in 198? when the standards were set. And
- that the mastering and pressing plants are amazingly good. The trade off
- is that a certain small % of players are going to mistrack the extra long
- CD that will track a less than 74 min. disk. This is why Sony/Philips
- frown on 0.8 micron spacing.
-
- The above discussion does not deal with the very subtle differences caused
- by jitter effects introduced in the CD mastering/pressing processes related
- to pit shape, plating, and other factors known only to mastering engineers.
-
- >
- > How do the new formats i.e MD and DCC compare with the CD as far as
- > information storage goes?
-
- CD = ~500Mbytes
- MD = ~130Mbytes
- DCC = ????????? who cares? (Anybody else out there remember the hell
- computer users went through when Compact
- Cassettes were used for data/programs?)
- >
- > Please post all replies to the newsgroup.
- >
- > Thanks.
- >
- > --Ram.
- >
- Norman Tracy
- znpt01@trc.amoco.com
-