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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:11:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Jul20.192541.1069@access.usask.ca> <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul20.192541.1069@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca writes:
- >>CDs are obsolete. What comes next?
-
- >Hmm... Well, LDs are 12" (like records) and analog (like records)...
- >Maybe the next generation is a 12" sound-only analog LD. Surely this
- >would make the die-hard-vinyl-LP-loving crowd happy? And think of the
- >capacity! CLV LDs can cram 60 minutes of video per side. Audio, with its
- >much lower bandwidth requirements, could probably fit several hours per
- >side.
-
- >Comments?
-
- Comments - how about this.
-
- Sony came up with the idea of digitally encoding audio and put
- it on a disk to be read by a laser.
-
- But they never saw the market. They just couldn't see that
- anyone would buy an 'album' with 10 or more hours of music per
- side.
-
- They couldn't break themselves of thinking 12" - ala LP's or
- LDs. I took Philips to come up with an under 5" disk. And
- then Sony and Philips got together and standardized on the
- current 12cm disk that sped'ed out at 74 minutes.
-
-
- So - the 12" laser read multi-hour-play disk has been thought
- of and discarded for marketing reasons.
-
-
-
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