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5 Nov 2024 03:17:09 EST (-0500)
  Re: Yet another Doctor John rant  
From: Darren New
Date: 31 Mar 2008 15:21:34
Message: <47f147ce$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Like... what? Storing the entire season of Friends in uncompressed RGB 
> format? Even that surely wouldn't come close...!

You would be surprised. Say you have (oh, I don't know) a program that 
listens to 70 radio stations in a city, and you want to save a week 
worth of audio for some reason.  Calculate out what 70 channels of 
CD-quality uncompressed audio comes to.

> Oh, no, for a business it wouldn't be. I was thinking more for the 
> casual comsumer.

Right.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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