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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.221924.681@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp> <14mdkjINNb4m@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:19:24 GMT
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- In article <14mdkjINNb4m@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >
- > >
- > > They [Sony] 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.
- > >
- > >
- >There is a story (probably apocryphal, anyone know?) that the 74 minutes
- >time was chosen because it was just long enough to hold the Sony MD's wife's favourite piece of classical music...
- >
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- The part I heard was that this requirement wasn't going to work at the
- designated sample rate of 48 KHz, so they cut it back to 44.1 to squeeze it
- in.
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- cjl
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