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- From: ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <1343@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:51:23 GMT
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- 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...
- :
- : Steve
-
- No, it's not apocryphal, but you've got a slightly distorted version.
- The person was Akio Morita, not his wife, and one of his favourite
- pieces is Beethoven's Ninth, which, if played fairly slowly, can be 74
- minutes long. The Dutch engineers at Phlips supposedly wanted an
- hour, which sounded like a nice round figure.
-
- Incidentally, one of Morita's best friends was Leonard Bernstein. I
- wonder how long his recorded performances of the Ninth are. Anyone
- know?
-
- Andrew.
-