Should I read at lower speeds?

[IceBreaker]

Originally posted by Machina
I still believe that a machine that can build CD-ROMs and CD-Rs perfectly can be made, if you put a good billion bucks in it...
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Send me the billion & I'll send you the machine

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So, if data is being repeated on a CD, then how much REAL space does a CD have? Because when I burn 300Mb file on a CD, it takes up 300Mb .

Because of EFM encoding, a byte (8 bits) is coded into a 14-bit sequence (hence Eight to Fourteen Modulation), plus 3 "header"-bits (I think), therefore 17 bits in total. So actually, a 700 Mb CD can hold 700*17/8=1487.5 Mb of data - actually, it would be more correct to say 8*1487.5=11900 Mbits, for speaking in terms of bytes would make no sense here - but don't get carried away, for that's 1487.5 "Mb" of "incomprehensible" data, the real data (the bytes) is only 700 Mb in maximum size, after EFM decoding.

There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't