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- From: renoir@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Khemdut Purang)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Old CD Player and New CDs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.144315.19235@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 14:43:15 GMT
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- Kerry Shetline (shetline@bbn.com) wrote:
- : In article <23JAN93134941@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>,
- : omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler) wrote:
-
- : 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
-
- there is a tolerance on the standards.
- you can get to longer playing times by going to the limits of
- these tolerances. but the older machines dont quite like it.
-