Right, Don. No degradation in time, just sudden failure! I've already experienced this with commercial CDs which have given up the ghost in less than 10 years. Feh. Eric Goldstein On 4/15/06, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The one thing you can be sure of, with regard to DVD's, is that there is a > known dynamic range and granularity, no hiss, no degradation with time (if > not seriously damaged), and if you get a properly made DDD CD it's going to > be predictably good, and if it's not good, it won't get any worse with time. > (snipped) --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list