More inaccurate information. There are tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of commercially pressed CDs which have failed within a few years. I have experienced this myself in spite of proper storage. And no CD product has an independently varified archival life of even two decades. Eric Goldstein -- On 4/15/06, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you Peter. I know all of this. I thought that I had made much > of this clear. I guess not. Sorry. > > Jim > > > At 06:17 PM 4/15/2006 -0700, Peter K. wrote: > > >With al due respect Jim, the deterioration is more for CD-Rs than > >the CDs you buy at a music store. The reason being the latter are > >coated and the material burned is less affacted by light. Stored > >properly they will last many decades. (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