# Re: scanning to cd-rom

From: Steve Underwood (steveu@coppice.org)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 17:02:54 PST

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  Jonathan Buzzard wrote:

  > steveu@coppice.org said:
  > > Would you like to see some of my pile of CDs and CDRs that were fine
  > > when new, but became unreadable within one year?
  >
  > I suspect either a dodgy writer and or dodgy media. I have many CD-R's that
  > are much older than this and are all still perfectly readable. That said in
  > my time I have come across CD-R's that are almost immediately unreadable.
  >
  > If you by cheap unbranded disks then the you only have yourself to blame.
  >

  You mean those Kodak thingies? Or Maxell, TDK, Mitsubishi? CDROMs of gold or
  silver? Commercial audio CDs, VCDs and CDROMs? CDRs recorded on many drives
  and failing to play on any?

  If you live in a humid place CD lifetime really sucks. A substantial
  percentage fail quickly, although many last for years. Perhaps that reflects
  variability in the protective coating process.

  As you say, the cheap CDRs, now produced by the hundreds of millions in many
  Asian factories, simply don't work reliably at all. I don't understand why
  people keep buying them.

  Regards,
  Steve

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