Re: CD Length (Was: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges)

[markus@octavia.anu.edu.au (Markus Buchhorn)]

Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
> mrosenberg@macconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) writes:
> 
> >In article <miller.812763916@aries>,
> >miller@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Kelly Miller) wrote:
> >
> >> >> In article <43ogf7$7tr@guysmiley.blarg.net>, warrl@blarg.net wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> > The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
> >> >> > has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes.  This is how long it
> >> >> > *has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD.
> >> 
> >> For what it's worth, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is about 60 - 63 minutes
> >> long, depending upon the pace the conductor sets.
> >
> >For what it's worth, my copy of Beethoven's 9th (Haitink, Concertgebouw
> >Orchestra, Philips #410 036-2) is 69.5 minutes long, rather longer than
> >60-63 minutes.  I recall reading back when CDs were first introduced that
> >the length chosen by Sony/Philips was, in fact, to accomodate a particular
> >recording of the 9th.
> 
> Must have been a pretty slow one :-)  
> I have a couple of CD's which are 79 minutes each.

(Off topic, Off newsgroups, oh well, what the heck.. ;v) )

The original version of this story I heard had it as 74 minutes, with
Herbert von Karajan conducting and the Berlin Symph.Orch. (This was back
in 1980-ish.)

I'll have to get my Dad's LP version out and time it :-).

The longest CD I have is 75'15" (uhm - I'll think of which one it was
in a minute...). I guess a 4' increase (~5%) to 79' isn't much of a stretch.
Just wait till we get the short wavelength lasers and get 2-3 times the 
playing time :-).

Cheers,
	Markus
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