Re: set speed for Toshiba CDROM drive ?

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Sun, 24 Aug 1997 13:45:43 -0400 (EDT)


> > Why not the Nx speed (that is, 176 kb/sec)? That's more user-frendly.
>
> why using this really pretty ramdom 150/176 kb/sec speed as scaling factor ?
> think some years in the future, noone will still care about the historic
> reasons that once there had beed audio CDROMs running at 75 sectors/sec.

Audio DVD's already break this AFAIK, 'cause 75 sectors/sec is based
on 44100 Hz 16-bit stereo [DVD uses 48/96 kHz and 16/20/24/28 bits IIRC].

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