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- From: shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Old CD Player and New CDs
- Followup-To: rec.audio
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:16:20 GMT
- Organization: BBN
- Lines: 21
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- References: <22JAN93210325@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>
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- In article <22JAN93210325@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>,
- omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler) wrote:
- > Here's an interesting problem: I have an old JVC portable CD player
- > (PC-V2 1987) which plays all of the CD's I bought years ago (even
- > the ones which are NOT in good shape...)
- >
- > I've noticed that I have problems playing CD's bought in the last few
- > months, however! There are about four CD's which my player just
- > keeps spinning around and around trying to get the track info from,
- > but never making it.
-
- Do the new CDs that don't play have play times of over 74 minutes? Some CDs
- push their play time up to 80 minutes (maybe even longer). Anything past 74
- isn't really according to Hoyle, however, and some older machines might
- have problems with extra-long discs.
-
- I suppose it might even be possible that some discs are being made with the
- narrower track pitch of an extra-long CD, even though the extra time is not
- being used, but that's just speculation.
-
- -Kerry
-