Browsing through my Funny folder today, I came across this bizarre press release from 1999:
TOKYO — Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will market a digital still camera that supports the 340-Mbyte Microdrive introduced by IBM Corp. earlier this month.
Microdrive will enable a digital still camera to store over 10,000 frames of VGA pictures, or 7.5 minutes of JPEG video at 15 frames per second in VGA quality, or 18 minutes in quarter-VGA quality. For audio, the Microdrive is able to store 12 hours of 8-bit 8-kHz sound.
Imagine how it would feel to listen to 12 hours of that!
- Eight is Enough (176KB AIFF)
(You can hear the original 16-bit, 48kHz file in Mark Nelson's review of the Edirol R-09 recorder. I crunched this one down with SoundHack.)
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I don't actually mind the QVGA on the iPod. It's surprisingly watchable if the encoding was done cleanly.
@Erica: Nah. I’ll be too busy watching quarter-VGA-quality movies.
Can we submit our audiology and psychiatry bills directly to you?