There is a study on the stability of optical media on the American
Institute for Conservation website that is well worth reading.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/library/pdf/iraci/relativeStabilitiesOpticalDiscs.pdf
cheers
Paul
On 29/09/2009, at 1:15 AM, Scott Fraser wrote:
> <<I've just re-checked my oldest CDR, from 1995. It's fine.>>
>
> OTOH both versions of a music client's album multitrack data back up
> on mid-market (TDK, Sony or Maxell, I forget,) DVDs from only 4 years
> ago have failed to read in 3 different DVD-ROM drives, thus rendering
> a remix impossible. Both copies were verified at the time they were
> burned. I remain skeptical due to this rather unpleasant
> unprofessional experience. What can you tell clients? "Your album
> files have been backed up, redundantly, yet they still may be lost
> forever as soon as I wipe my work drive"?
>
> Scott Fraser
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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