Re: Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

Regardless of the storage media....paper, tape, removable HDs, 
CDs....all have finite life spans.  Old Scotch 150 quarter inch tape was 
the standard for recordings many years ago, and if you have one of those 
old tapes around you may find that the music is still there, plus some 
other interesting artifacts.  Tape has a tendency to bleed if it is not 
periodically rewound.  Paper deteriorates.  Like Geoff, I have a music 
CD that was recorded back in the late 1990s that plays perfectly well.  
I also have CDs full of high resolution TIFF images that have not lost 
one bit of information since the day they were recorded.  The image CDs 
are also stored in jewel cases and handled with cloth gloves (the same 
ones I use to handle negatives and slides).   Personally, I would be 
more interested in copying the CDs over to new high-density DVDs to 
reduce storage requirements even more.  Has anyone heard about the 
longevity of DVDs as opposed to the quickly becoming obsolete CDs?

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