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Halmyre wrote:
There is plenty room on a CD for that text. IIRC, the original 74
minute red book maximum was set by the maximum running time of a US
NTSC U-Matic tape - used then for digital recording.


Urban myth say 74 minutes was the length of the Sony boss's wife's
favourite symphony - Beethoven's Ninth.

I prefer the U-Matic theory. They were the original PCM recorders. A
standard video machine with an add on box.

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