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- From: jsimon@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Simon)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.203724.22543@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:37:24 GMT
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- In article <1343@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>, ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- This may sound stupid but, when I look at the back side of a CD (the side
- the music is on), the light reflected back in the first part of the CD
- (usually less than 1/4 inch from the outside) differs from the light reflected
- back from the rest of the CD. I've always assumed that's the portion of the CD
- where the music is recorded. If that assumption is correct, than there is
- a LOT of space left over for additional music over the rest of the CD....How
- wrong am I?
-
- Jerry
-