Newsgroups: comp.compression
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Sound compression
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 08:34:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May24.083409.20528@looking.on.ca>
References: <91May15.140250edt.750@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> <105539@sgi.sgi.com> <1991May23.123202.18335@cc.tut.fi> <1991May23.215341.7836@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Keywords: sound compression

You would think sound should be more redundant than that.  I had heard
plans for 2.5inch CDs with over 2 hours of sound in the past, I guess
those got scrapped.    At 2 hours, they would begin to have trouble
figuring what to put on it.  Even today people are more ruluctant to
buy 30 minute CDs when 70 minute CDs are abundant.   And of course long
double-albums get to charge double, when we all know the cost of the CD
is peanuts.

I have heard of some people doing 1 meg/minute for supposed hi-fi.
Do they lie?

On a tangential note, I do hope they get with it and package any new
CD format in a case like that for 3.5inch disks.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473