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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: 24 Jan 1993 03:42:16 GMT
- Organization: BBN
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- References: <22JAN93210325@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu> <shetline-230193110939@128.89.19.90> <23JAN93134941@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>
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- In article <23JAN93134941@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>,
- omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler) wrote:
- > Thanks for the suggestion - I'll have to check out that possibility,
- > however, I think some of my old CD's also push 74 minutes, so I doubt
-
- I don't think it was until sometime during the last 3-4 years that any CDs
- were made that far overran 74 minutes.
-
- > that that is the problem. The 'narrow track width' you mentioned
- > sounds more likely - is this really being done? I thought the CD format
- > had a fixed track width...
-
- Yes, it really is done. And yes, there is a standard for a fixed track
- width. It gets ignored sometimes. The way the laser pickup tracks a CD,
- however, does not depend on precise track width. It's more a matter of
- tolerances in the tracking mechanism. Most machines have no problem with
- fudging the track width a bit. Some older ones... well...
-
- -Kerry
-