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- From: tpearson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Trevor Pearson)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.065517.870@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:55:17 GMT
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- 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.
- >
-
- Sorry to be pedantic but it is only the video that is analog now on
- LD's, the audio is digital. If a new system is required I hope it
- will be Microchip storage. Preferably with much greater sampling
- rate (this I believe is the Achilles heel of CD) and maybe > 16 bit.
- But anyway digital storage is definitely the way to go, lets improve
- it before giving up on it.
-
-
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- * Trevor Pearson *
- * TRL. Clayton, Australia *
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