On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote:
quoted 7 lines Ae's "Incunabula" has a total running time> > Ae's "Incunabula" has a total running time
> > of 77 minutes and 58 seconds. Isn't there
> > a limited time span of 74 minutes on a (normal)
> > cd?
>
> I think an old Redbook standard stated that, but it seems that nowadays,
> you can go as high as 80 minutes.
Perhaps it's an urban myth, but I seem to recall hearing/reading somewhere
that the reason the 74 minute limit came about was because it was the
length of the president of Phillips' favorite recording of a certain
symphony (something by Beethoven or Mozart, I think). So while it was
technically feasible to cram more onto the disc, they chose 74 minutes as
a standard, but 80 minutes seems to be the "real" limit - I have yet to
see a disc longer than 79:58 or so.
Greg