Re: filmscanners: Burning CD's

[Rob Geraghty]

"Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Read my detailed discussion.  CD-RW do not use dyes.  They use a 
> amorphous crystal layer.  Report from another subscriber is that they 
> last 30 years, while the best CD-Rs can last 100 years.

Point taken, nevertheless one is designed for write-once-read-many
and the other is designed to be rewritten.

One thing which seems clear from this discussion is that there's no
consensus on how long these things will last - mostly because they
haven't been around long enough to know for sure.

Rob