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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
There's something wrong with their math.
First of all, who has a collection in which the songs average 3 minutes?
More importantly, I believe that you could play 64,750,000 songs much faster than in 8,093,750 days. Especially if they're only 3 minutes long.
Try 134,895 days.
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Average radio song is three and a half minutes. :/ I feel ya, but that is pretty close to correct for most people.
But yeah, wacky math all over that example.
A serious question though, what is the real use for a cassette like this? Video? Obviously the song thing is more of an example, a way to break the idea down.
But even with video I can't imagine anyone taking advantage of that kinda storage on a removable medium.
Edit: Ahhh, nevermind...
The press conference had Sony reps explaining that the tape is intended for "long-term, industrial-sized data backup."
That is still a remarkable amount of backup. Because the fact that it is on cassettes means you planning on having several, probably many, of these things. So I guess my question still stands, what the heck is going on these things? Or is this the NSA backing up their data?