Storing 55 minutes of video on each side of a 13 -
centimetre disc works out at 25 gigabits per side.
By BARRY FOX Later this year, a modified CD player, connected to a TV set, will deliver up to 74 minutes of moving video pictures from a 12 -
centimetre disc that looks just like a conventional audio CD.
The 12 -
centimetre discs store an hour of VHS - quality movie or karaoke pictures.
Not exact matches
Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a
disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1
centimetre wide.
The
discs, at 13
centimetres across, are a little wider than conventional DVDs, and slightly thicker.
The official record of the 1990/1991 session of parliament is stored on a single 12 -
centimetre CD - ROM
disc, a cousin to the compact
disc which stores computer data.
The first step is to make double - sided
discs 13
centimetres in diameter — the same size as the magneto - optical
discs now made for the computer industry.
It will eventually grow into a thick
disc - shaped creature 20
centimetres across, known colloquially as a sea biscuit.