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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject: Re: Computers and MP (SMTP Id#: 316) - Reply
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:42:11 +0200
> It doesn't list anything for the ears, but I played it as
> 1 minute of 10x CD-quality (441,000 Khz) audio for 1Mp of
> memory. But that is ANYTHING but official, and I just used that
> frequency because some guy in mmy group (at that time) wanted to
> know how clear it was, so I made somehting up. (BTW: that would
> be about 26.5 megabytes.)

ShadowBeat has some figures as well (don't have the book with me), on
video and audio. Audio definitely takes up less memory than pictures of
the same playing time, though.

> 6Mp will record 1 minute of low-resolution video (probably
> figure
> that is is of the quality you'd see on the nightly news)

In other words, a few blurred shapes with the occasional semi-
recognizable face thrown in :+)



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