On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, quentin wrote:
quoted 4 lines well, I don't really think it's going to matter all that much in a year or
> well, I don't really think it's going to matter all that much in a year or
> so when the dvd's(digital video disk, same size as a cd!) come out... I
> mean, what was it, 8 hours of cd quality audio or 4 hours of digital
> video???
Current CD data capacity: 650 megs
Max possible DVD capacity[1]: 17 gigs
17000/650 = 26.15; 26.15 * 74 minutes = 1935 minutes, or just short of 32
hours.
If you want to go crazy, today you can do MPEG-2 audio compression at 10:1
with pretty much zero loss of quality (or at least not discernable from
noise) if you're using a good encoder - 320 hours of music, anyone?
That's 16 hours short of two weeks. :)
The catch is that the current DVD specs don't appear to have an
"audio-only" format which would facilitate such massive sound storage
(this just from reading up on it for 10 minutes) but since it'll also have
a data format (just like CD-ROM's) the potential is there to do whatever
ya want.
Brian
[1]
http://www..cd-info.com/CDIC/Technology/DVD/dvd-faq.html#6.0
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