Posted by Bill Vermillion on 08/28/05 22:55

In article <slrndg29ud.cr7.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:28:47 GMT, The Man Behind The Curtain <johngrabowski@earthblink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>AZ Nomad wrote:
>
>>> DVD don't rot. Laserdisc rot is from the glue that holds the two sides being
>>> insufficient and oxygen getting into the information area. DVDs aren't made
>>> that way.
>
>>Actually, I would venture that DVDs haven't been around long enough yet
>>for us to know if they rot. There may be some slow chemical
>>decomposition going on that will not manifest itself for 30 or 40 years.

>They've been around long enough for anybody with a clue to know
>that they don't have two disks glued together like a laserdisc.
>They don't have the possibility of a defect in the glue allowing
>oxygen to enter.

>CDs have been around for rather long and use a very similar
>process. As long as the label isn't damaged, the CD will last
>without decay. I have plenty that are thirty years old.

Of that the family cat doesn't "whiz" on them and you don't find
out until a year later, when the acids in the cat urine have had a
field day. I stil don't know how she got to that disk.

Bill



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