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- From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one)
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- Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.010042.20828@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:00:42 GMT
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- thus quoth dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
- The next question is that of capacity. If the MD player is at CD
- quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second. I
- believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes. This yields 44,000 x 74
- x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB. This is unformatted, of course.
-
- *2 for stereo BUT
- they use a lossy compression method to reduce the data to 8 bits
- so this is correct
-
- but we already have rewritable magneto-optical media for PC's
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