[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.


For what it's worth, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is about 60 - 63 minutes
long, depending upon the pace the conductor sets.


Kelly Miller
who things that 60 minutes is a better length than 63...