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- From: jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com (James W. Birdsall)
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214653.17377@picarefy.picarefy.com>
- Organization: Green Tiger Software
- References: <1992Jul24.203724.22543@rchland.ibm.com> <19340@plains.NoDak.edu> <FELIX.92Jul26082943@crowfix.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:46:53 GMT
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- In article <FELIX.92Jul26082943@crowfix.com> felix@crowfix.com (Felix Finch) writes:
- >I've several CDs with 79 minutes and change. I think the limit is 80
- >minutes, altho I've heard stories about companies with 2 hour CD
- >formats [...]
-
- I've only heard of one instance of this. The source material was old
- (hence mono), so the company packed ~2 hours on one CD by the simple
- expedient of recording each channel separately. I.e., first you listen to
- the left channel, then you go back and play the CD again listening to the
- right channel.
-
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