Not everyone agrees that D.V.D.s are worse than C.D.s.
- |----------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I've been gathering data on this for some years now. | | | |I have a set of old disks (Kodak Gold) [. . .] | |[. . .] I also have | |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. | | | |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 | |this point, [. . .] | |[. . .] | | | |[. . .]" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
in uk.media.dvd on Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:59:33 +0100
- |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] 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." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|