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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: CD length
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 13:43:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 13:43:38 1985
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Keywords: Tangerine Dream, CD

>There is no reason (as far as I know) why a full double album can't be put
>on a single CD. My understanding is that the full capacity of a CD (one sided)
>is 4 or 5 hours. That's considering, of course, that it is used to absolute
>full capacity. So the POLAND album on CD is probably complete, even though it
>is only a on a single disc.
>
>
>				      Barth Richards
>				      Tellabs, Inc.
>				      Lisle, IL

Wrongo! A CD can only be about seventy-five minutes (I believe), and the
exact time was set by Sony because they wanted to be able to put all of
Beethoven's ninth (or was it the fifth?) on one CD. 

Here's to good ol' Ludwig Van!

					Paul Guthrie


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