Mais qu'est-ce qu'on s'en branle !

Karam for the first correct answer as to why it was decided to be 74 minutes.

A sidebar: folklore says that Akio Morita, the founder and chairman of Sony, specified a 74 minute playing time so that the Beethoven Ninth could play without interruption. However, according to Kees Schouhammer-Immink, Philips' top scientist on the team of Sony and Philips engineers which designed the CD (and who is a friend of mine), that story is revisionist fiction. The diameter of the CD was originally specified to be the diagonal dimension of the compact cassette, and was then rounded to an even number. Given the sampling rate, bit depth, error correction and practical optical density at the time, the result was a playing time of 74 minutes. But that isn't particularly sexy, is it?
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"Fred.... seriously, what is with the gay avatar?"

You think it's gay because there's a naked boy...But this is just your filthy imagination.
Maybe the boy loves girls!

Maybe the boy loves girls!

Maybe he does. But what of the boy who likes pictures of naked boys? That's the question.

I knew it would be controversial !