CDs and DVDs not so immortal after all
From USA Today: It’s not known for sure how common “CD rot” is, but it’s just one of a number of reasons that optical discs, including DVDs, may be a lot less long-lived than first thought.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-05-disc-rot_x.htm
(Thanks to Henry Howard, maintainer of the RadioDrama Mailing List, for the link.)





May 9th, 2004 at 1:40 pm
Hey - we knew CD’s, those small cheap little plastic things, were NEVER going to be immortal - since the big, heavy, expensive LASAR discs were already going bad by 1987!
—Russ