[TheForge] Roger Degner: Blacksmith Video Library

[Clyde Wynia]

Dann Johnson wrote
People are finding out that cds in general and burned cds
in particular arent as durable as they were advertised to
be:

A current article in PC Magazine looks at this issue and concludes:
The recent Associated Press story about insidious, disc-devouring "rot"
wasn't the first to hit the mainstream press. Major news outlets Worldwide
have for years been publishing sensational reports that up to 20 percent of
all mass-produced CDs and DVD-Video discs were slowly destroying themselves.
But when an alarmed DVD industry investigated whether the problem was indeed
as catastrophic as it appeared, it turned out that most reported incidents
had actually been caused by improper disc handling and storage. Despite the
latest round of headlines, true "DVD Rot" today appears to be exceedingly
rare. Users themselves are the greatest threat to the longevity of their DVD
collections.
See the rest of the article at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1590561,00.asp