From Greg Clow Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 06:18
From Greg Clow Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 06:18
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote: > > Ae's "Incunabula" has a total running time > > of 77 minutes and 58 seconds. Isn't there > > a limited time span of 74 minutes on a (normal) > > cd? > > I think an old Redbook standard stated that, but it seems that nowadays, > you can go as high as 80 minutes. Perhaps it's an urban myth, but I seem to recall hearing/reading somewhere that the reason the 74 minute limit came about was because it was the length of the president of Phillips' favorite recording of a certain symphony (something by Beethoven or Mozart, I think). So while it was technically feasible to cram more onto the disc, they chose 74 minutes as a standard, but 80 minutes seems to be the "real" limit - I have yet to see a disc longer than 79:58 or so. Greg