The word had been to hold it fifteen minutes.

"We'll be there if you can hold that hellhound three minutes."

The movies look fantastic, although a 2-gigabyte card holds only about 18 minutes of video.

"We'll be able to hold about five minutes, that's all we can do," the crew member responded.

But since each disk holds only 74 minutes of video, two are required for most movies.

But another hurdle is that a disk can hold only 72 minutes of video, too short for most movies.

In short play mode, the tapes can hold 30 to 45 minutes of video.

A 10-inch 78-rpm disc could hold about 3 minutes of music per side.

If you could hold court for 15, 20 minutes you were doing a lot.

A 40 megabytye hard disk can hold 200 minutes of messages.