Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 06/26/06 22:27

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:28:15 -0400, blank@adelphia.com wrote:
>
>>>1. You bought the cheapest discs available.
>
>>Not necessarily true. Sometime "name brand" discs go on sale, maybe
>>for half of their regular price. But they are the same discs. They
>>didnt go bad because somebody decided to have a sale.
>
> All discs are either crap or crap shoots with one notable exception:
> Taiyo Yuden.
>
> http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=146146
>
> --
>
> "It's impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from
> an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can
> physically be done, and the other half are doing it."
> --Winston Churchill

The poll you cited is not scientific.

While TY are good discs, there are others that have been tested to have
superior archival quality.

Also, for the OP....

Burning your discs at faster than 2X is also responsible. The faster the
burn speed, the less likely the disc is going to last for 2 or more years.

I have CD discs that I burned in 1998; they are still working. I keep them
in a cool, dim place, and I recorded them at no more than 2X. They are on a
wide range of brands. Point is, they all still work.

Bobby

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