[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be



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.  That
> particular symphony is extremely popular in Japan; if they had not
> provided it, another company would have figured out a way to do so and
> then would have blown the original makers out of the Japanese market.

I was under the impression that Phillips, a Dutch company, came up
with the CD, and that the length is actually 72 minutes.  Erroneous?

-- 
ckt@guest.apple.com