On Monday 12 September 2005 15:16, Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Internet Mobile w/ Treo wrote:
If you are wondering about the viability of CD/DVD longivity, they go bad as soon as you burn on them. Cnet reported that as soon as 6 months afterwards, they had CDs going south on them.
I burned some DVDs recently on DVD +R, and I played them right after making them to be sure they burned OK. They were fine. In some cases less than a week later they were corrupted. Video would play partway then freeze. Just last night I played a DVD I burned on DVD +R. 2 or 3 months ago, it was fine. Last night, it played nearly to the end, then froze. I don't know if I had a bad batch of discs or what. But it did show me that a home-burned DVD can be fine at first, then go bad, and it can be in a shockingly short time. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************