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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 n
by marshmallow_12 6y ago
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.
- parsimo2010 6y agoIt’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.
- rowanG077 6y agoActually 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.
- rexpop 6y agoI 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.
- aksss 6y agoI, for one, appreciate the additional 2MB of storage that gave us. /s
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoI wonder how many more minutes of audio 0.5 cm gets us?
- selcuka 6y agoIf 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.