Fifty six years ago, today, RCA Victor announced plans to manufacture LP records. This meant a staggering 46 minutes of music (on both sides) using a 12-inch piece of vinyl (as opposed to four minutes for per side of the then standard, the 78-rpm.

It’s interesting to compare this to how we store and listen to music today. To use an extreme example, the Motorola phone in Singapore, the E398 ‘Hijacked‘ by MTV, with built in 22Kh speakers, 3D surround sound and removable flash memory, is an MP3 player, really and is almost incidentally a phone!

Then there is satellite radio’s Sirius S50. The receiver can also record music, apart from allowing rewinding and fast forwarding, and saving your own MP3 and WMA songs to the device!