![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, and your dvd players didn't always handle x264. > second, even if modern equipment handles all the better codecs, a lot of us still have memories of times it didn't in the past. I think this is probably the main reason for mp3's stickiness. > MP3 was synonymous with digital music in most of our minds for so long So with an amount of data on each disk that exceeds end users available storage by orders of magnitude, and no "CD drives interfaced digitally to computers" at the same time it seems unlikely that Sony or Phillips ever even considered that end users would be able to digitally copy CD disks. When the target was replacement of the Vinyl LP player and compact cassette deck, and when their target customer base might have had 10-20MB of total storage in their personal computers (if they even had a personal computer), it would seem unbelievable to Sony and Phillips that those customers might even be capable of copying a disk holding somewhere upwards of 850-950MB of digital audio data.Īnd of course in the above I am overlooking that in order to "copy a CD" (as in make a digital copy) one first requires a CD drive that can interface with a PC in a digital way, and such drives did not appear until some years after the CD's release. ![]() The IBM PC did not have an official "hard drive" variant from IBM until the PC XT released in 1983 (one year after the CD) and the hard drive option was a whole 10MB. This was only one year after IBM had released the original IBM PC, which came with one or two 320KB 5.25 inch floppy drives. I doubt copying figured into the decision process (at least not a deliberate "anti-piracy" thought process). This was done to both increase play time and discourage copying. ![]()
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