naturerecordists
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: CD's in the freezer

Subject: Re: CD's in the freezer
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:32:50 -0000
yes, my freezer is the darkest, coldest, least humid place I got.
Although a few may disagree.

I see this report as a "shot across the bow".
We can no longer tolerate CD manufacturer resistance to honest 
disclosure. Some day we will get "Archive" labels that will mean 
something. But for right now if a company lists their dye and 
reflection material, they will get "the people who care" business, 
and if they don't they wont.

Rich

Who will be the first manufacturer to be honest and forward and print 
it on the cd product itself.

--- In  Rob Danielson <> 
wrote:
> At 7:59 PM +0000 2/7/05, Rich Peet wrote:
> >Well it may not be their conclusion but after reading this my cd
> >archives are headed to the freezer in foam food shipping boxes for
> >slow warm up when needed.
> >
> >Looks like there is some good work being done on this topic which 
is
> >over due.
> >
> >see:
> >http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwg/StabilityStudy.pdf
> >
> >Rich
> >
> Good find. Are you betting on the freezer because there's no 
telling 
> what kind of dyes and quality control were used?  The coming 
> longevity tests may not tell us what we're aching to know if 
there's 
> so much variability in the products.  No more bargain discs for me. 
> Would it be would be useful to know which companies are practicing 
> quality control in making phthalocyanine dye, silver/gold metal 
> products?  Mitsui possibly? Anyone know the scoop here? Rob D.
> 
>   = = =
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]





________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the naturerecordists mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU