Posted by Jonathan Brisby on 09/25/07 21:32

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:58:34 -0400, Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion> wrote:

>billyhouston4@hotmail.com wrote:
<snip>
This is a debate that's been going on for a long time in regards to
CD-R.
>Some people say they fail after a few months. I've been making CDs for 10
>years and not one that I've made has failed. CDs I've received from other
>people have failed, sometimes in less than a year. I don't know what the
>difference is.
>
>I've been making DVDs for 4 years and haven't had any problems yet. If I
>receive a burned DVD I make a backup copy of it. Nothing to worry about so
>far.

Only some very cheap CD-Rs ever died on me and it took about 4 or 5
years for them to, like I said they were the cheapest of the cheap.
Same thing with DVD+Rs but they died within 2 years, they were call
Berkley or Benson... started with a B and the logo was a blue oval.
Other than that (not including the infamous Memorex MiniDiscs) I have
had no disc problems.

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