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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by marshmallow_12 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:15AM (#26411414)
Interesting that the universal standard was created for such a petty reason. I was hoping to hear that there was some subtle but huge difference in 0.5cm. But no, it's just to screw Philips over, and we all have to play along.
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by parsimo2010 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:17AM (#26412080)
It’s not like Sony and Philips are friends. They’re competitors. And the reason Philips wanted 11.5 cm is because it gave them an advantage, aka just to screw Sony over. This is normal business, not some moral failing.
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by rowanG077 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:46PM (#26415977)
Actually it is a moral failing. All that equipment had to be end of lifed earlier and much more work had to be put in. More garbage, more wasted energy. I can't see how that is anything but a moral failing.
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by rexpop on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:40PM (#26417410)
I agree, and am glad you recognize it as such. When Sony erased Philips' "head-start", they obsoleted an investment made with the finite endowment of global resources (not to mention time). It's an underhanded tactic which disadvantages everyone to advantage a few.
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by aksss on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:58PM (#26414714)
I, for one, appreciate the additional 2MB of storage that gave us. /s
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:51PM (#26416050)
I wonder how many more minutes of audio 0.5 cm gets us?
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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by selcuka on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:46PM (#26419142)
If you ignore the hole in the middle and approximate the number of minutes to be proportional to the area of a circle then it's ~6 minutes.
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