Message no. 1

From:	Mongoose <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Data Storage / collectable records
Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:02:34 -0700

:Micheal Feeney writes:
:> All of which comes down to the key question: How much does a
:> music disk hold
:> in 2060? In otherwords, how much stuff do I have on those 10 audio and
10
:> video disks?
:
:This is defined in everyone's favourite OOP sourcebook, Shadowbeat. :)
:
:IIRC, standard mini-CDs can pack about an hour and a bit of music on
them.
:Larger CDs can pack a full-length movie (three hours or there abouts),
:converted to Trideo. (Presumably, it could take more of standard video).
:

That is a bit more than you would expect given the storage sizes for
cd's (100MP, I think, if you are putting a hermatic library on them) and
the size needed for recording sound and motion video (given in SSC and
shadowbeat, not always the same). Maybe "comercial" recordings use
something like MP3, which raw recordings would not.
When I made a character who was into old music ('70-'90's punk rock),
I just spent a brick of cash on collectable vinyl. Can you imagine how
much a Nirvana 7" (some of which had printings of 500) will be worth in
205x? They can go for $100 today!

Mongoose