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- From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- References: <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp> <1992Jul20.192541.1069@access.usask.ca> <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:41:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >In article <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Jul20.192541.1069@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca writes:
- >>>CDs are obsolete. What comes next?
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- >>Hmm... Well, LDs are 12" (like records) and analog (like records)...
- ^^^^^^
- >>Maybe the next generation is a 12" sound-only analog LD. Surely this
- ^^^^^^
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- >Sony came up with the idea of digitally encoding audio and put
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >it on a disk to be read by a laser.
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- [...]
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- >So - the 12" laser read multi-hour-play disk has been thought
- >of and discarded for marketing reasons.
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- Er, the 12" laser read multi-hour-play DIGITAL disk has been discarded.
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- ;-)
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