Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:07:21 +0530 (IST)
> From: N Sashikumar <sashi () civil iisc ernet in>
> Subject: Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
>
> Prof Dave,
>  Slashdot has a thread on this topic:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/24/1253248.shtml?tid=126&tid=137&tid=198
>
> Actual news is reported in the following link
> http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751
>
> The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For
> the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty
> different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results
> were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore:
>
> Roughly translated from Dutch:
>
> The tests showed that a number of CD-Rs had become completely unreadable
> while others could only be read back partially. Data that was recorded 20
> months ago had become unreadable. These included discs of well known and
> lesser known manufacturers.
>
> It is presumed that CD-Rs are good for at least 10 years. Some
> manufacturers even claim that their CD-Rs will last up to a century. From
> our tests it's concluded however that there is a lot of junk on the
> market. We came across CD-Rs that should never have been released to the
> market. It's completely unacceptable that CD-Rs become unusable in less
> than two years. .....

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