The Outer Limit: CD-Rs with 80, 90 and 99 Minutes

Creating A 90-minute CD, Step-By-Step, Continued

Many burn programs claim to offer a function that calculates the maximum storage capacity. In practice, this feature turns out to be a complete waste, as only the manufacturer's register entries are read. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the maximum capacity of a blank CD-R80 is given as 79 minutes 59 seconds. But in the burn test, the CD could be written with 83 minutes!

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