Posted by Chris Adams on 07/23/06 03:18

Once upon a time, Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> said:
>As I understand it, the data rate was chosen during the development
>process for the Sony PCM-1 system, which actually used a Betamax video
>recorder as the storage medium.

And here I thought it was because 44100 is the square of the product of
the first four primes. :-)
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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