Long play
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Long play or LP is a term that originated from vinyl gramophone records popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The meaning has since come to describe a variety of formats in several entertainment mediums.
- For the gramophone records format specifically, see gramophone record
- A long play album is a music album that is considered a whole, often nearing an hour in total length. Compare EP, which is longer than a single but shorter than an LP.
- For long play magnetic tape, see audio tape length and thickness.
- "Long Play" is a VCR format in which video is recorded (and played) at half the normal speed, doubling a tape's capacity at the cost of some image and sound quality
- MDLP is a long play format for MiniDisc
Long Play was an early morning music video programme on Sky One.