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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: missioncontrol on September 18, 2005, 12:05:55 pm
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I was at a book store recently and noticed that the Harry Potter on Cd contained 17 cd's and on tape it contained 12 tapes ???
shouldn't it have been the same amount of tapes or more???
A friend was with me and he was just as puzzled as I was.......
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A tape can be up to 120 minutes (60 per side), both home and commercially recorded tapes.
Pressed CDs are 80-85 minutes tops. I've seen a few which went up to 89 minutes but they were ususally classical music.
Tapes are usually 90 minutes tops these days.
Why were you looking at Harry Potter on tape? Too lazy to read books. ;)
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The CDs probably have computer based extras on them, too.
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They don't usually put extras on the Audio Books. They save them for the DVDs.
I'm right. You're wrong. 8)
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They also don't usually have audio books that are 17 CDs long. Harry Potter isn't your average material, either. Most figure on selling a few thousand copies, this one could sell hundreds of thousands.
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The boxes were the same except the cd's had a little box that said that the audio was available on tape and the tapes had a box that said that they were available on cd. so I don't think there was extra stuff.
Why were you looking at Harry Potter on tape? Too lazy to read books. ;)
The reason we were looking was because we had taken our kids to story time (free entertainment for the kids) and were just there hanging out and talking while the kids were being read a story.
but yes I am way too lazy to read the books. I just wait for the movies. The fourth is comming out in November.
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19 hours long = 1140 minutes
12 tapes 60 minutes per side 60*2*12 = 1140 minutes
17 cd's * 80 to 85 minutes = 1360 to 1445 minutes
According to the math sounds like bosss7 could be right
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Why were you looking at Harry Potter on tape? Too lazy to read books.
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I did listen to Gump and Co on audio Cd (the second Forest Gump book) my problem was when I got to where I was going I wanted to know what was going to happen next so I ended up driving around the block several times insted of going in to work.......
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I do that a lot. I have a subscription to Audible and get an audiobook every month. I do 6-10 hours of commuting per week, and they're also great to listen to at the gym. Those are about the only time I've found I can listen to them without getting distracted and missing stuff in the book. Just about any other time, unless I decide to sit in a bath or something, I prefer actual reading.
Anyway, I sit in my car with the engine running (for air conditioning) for 5 or 10 minutes before going into work on a regular basis cos I'm at a good part. NPR refers to them as "driveway moments".
Audiobooks are a great way to reclaim time that you would otherwise lose to rote things like commuting. If I average 8 hours of commute per week and multiply that by 52 weeks in a year by 40 years, and devide that by 24 it tells me that I will spend 693 days commuting. Considering that we don't actually get 24 hour days to ourselves because of sleep I should really have devided it by 16 or 18 hours to reflect that 6-8 hours of each day is lost to sleeping. If I divide by 18 hours, assuming an average of 6 hours of sleep every night, it means that my commute will use up 924 days, or two and a half years of my life. That's two and a half years doing nothing but sitting behind the wheel of a car as the pavement zips by beneath me. That's a lot of time that can be reclaimed and put to use with audiobooks.
And as I mentioned they also can make other time, such as at the gym, even more productive than it already is with little to no effort on your part. I love them.
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That's way too much math........
:police:
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CD's hold 74 - 80 minutes (depending on the CD) of audio CD format audio (16-bit 44.1 kHz PCM). Audio of those specs are overkill for spoken-word audio but that is the only way they can produce a standard audio CD which will play in any cd player. They could put it into a low bitrate lossy compression format such as MP3 or WMV and fit it all on one CD but not everyone would be able to listen to it. If you encoded 1258 minutes (17*74 minutes) of audio at 64 kbps MP3 which is still overkill for spoken-word it would be about 600 MB, fitting on even a 74 minute/650 MB CD with room to spare.
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WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA! HOLD IT JUST A MINUTE THERE!
Some replies after this, and NONE of you caught this? I can only assume you are the types that like to sit in pools of their own filth as well!
Somehow, though, I think shmokes is more the "bubble bath and candles" type ;D
unless I decide to sit in a bath or something,
Unless you've hurt something, I'm gonna have to think you're a nancy-man, what with the "mask" picture you posted. ;)
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He's a nancy man for sure. Real men shower! 8)
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Somehow, though, I think shmokes is more the "bubble bath and candles" type ;D
Only when I'm feeling saucy...