Re: DVDs are worse than CDs

Not everyone agrees that D.V.D.s are worse than C.D.s.

Neil Maxwell at Intel wrote in
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:47:11 -0700
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|"I've been gathering data on this for some years now.                 |
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|I have a set of old disks (Kodak Gold) [. . .]                        |
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|some unburned Kodak Gold blanks, still wrapped in the jewel cases     |
|(this is how quality CDRs came back then), and I was troubleshooting a|
|problem the other day where an old laptop drive was failing to read   |
|any burned CDs, but was OK on pressed media and burned DVDs.          |
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|I burned one of these NOS (new old stock) Kodak Golds at 4x, and the  |
|laptop read it just fine.  These blanks are probably 6-7 years old at |
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Nath wrote in
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:59:33 +0100
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|"[. . .] Do single layers have problems with DVD rot type                  |
|delayed errors? (OK for a certain length of time, then starts to fail) I've|
|had problems with about three DL's that refuse to work after sitting on the|
|shelf for a 1-2 years."                                                    |
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