Chalmersspex genom tiderna
Version från den 25 december 2006 kl. 17.34 av 213.101.116.4 (diskussion)
Recording medium comparison
| Format | Typical length |
| 78 record | around 3 - 5 minutes per side |
| 45 record | often around 4 minutes (EP: 7 minutes) per side, up to 6 per side, in some cases even a few minutes longer. |
| LP record | up to 30 minutes per side, though some LPs have a longer time by a few minutes. |
| Audio cassette | usually 30 or 45 minutes per side, 60 minutes per side have also been sold although the tape is more prone to stretching or breaking. |
| 8-Track | up to 100 minutes, often 45 to 80 |
| Compact disc | Earlier discs: up to 74 minutes (or up to 650 MB of data files) |
| Later discs: up to 80 minutes (or up to 700 MB of data files) | |
| Reel-to-Reel | 1.5 hours (both sides) if recorded at 7.5 inches per second (ips) on a standard 1800 ft reel.
Professionals record at 30 ips on 3600 ft reels that will fit 22.5 minutes (one side only). A 3600 ft reel can hold up to 48 hours if recorded in mono (4 sides) at 15/16 ips. |
| Minidisc | Earlier discs: 74 minutes up to 296 minutes, dependent upon compression used. |
| Later discs: 80 minutes up to 320 minutes, dependent upon compression used. | |
| Hi-MD | Up to 13 hours on a standard 80-minute MiniDisc. |
| Up to 45 hours on a 1Gb Hi-MD (MiniDisc) | |
| Digital audio player | around 17 hours per GB of data, depending on bit rate |
| DVD | around 8.5 hours per layer (more if compression is used) |
| SACD | |
| HDDVD | |
| Blu-ray | 50GB (23 Hours) |
