Do disks degrade over time?

[daman]

Update:

Cannot find the disc, but I am pretty sure it was a Maxell cdr.
Because today I opened another box of old CD backups
and behold, the same thing has happened to my 6 to 7 yr old
Maxell discs (CD-R 80XL 1 to 32 speed, GL70217)

Ok, really?

[soup]

From the research I have done I believe these are fake TY's.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...&postcount=137.

[Dan]

Looking at those results, I can't imagine them being real TY unless you hit one awful batch.

[Chewy]

soup did you look at this thread

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?postid=450327#post450327

[daman]

Interesting information when one googles "longevity dvd media".

Look what I came up with, but please note the poster's last two paragraphs;

Link


The poster actually commends Memorex for it's honesty.

[Dan]

But still.......almost all those causes can be avoided with proper care and high quality media.

Maybe Memorex is being honest because they are sick of all the complaints and know they make crap media, LOL.

[daman]

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Maybe Memorex is being honest because they are sick of all the complaints and know they make crap media, LOL.

LOL!!!!! true

[soup]

@ Chewy, I missed that one, thank you. Before I posted I googled this number (T1017), & found out (a) all TY's have whay you said in post #4 & (b) the number I found means (fake). I am just glad I didn't buy them, I was given a few because I saw the MID & it said they were TYG02's. So now I have to tell this person the bad news, oh well I won't see him until Monday.

Edit: Real: - . Fake: - .

[katzdvd]

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ps i am the discman and i'm degrading over time

Now thats' funny!</center>

[NightTran]

true, the older you get the shorter you are

[katzdvd]

soup did you look at this thread

http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...327#post450327

thanks for bringing that up again, chewy.

my tygo2's start with GGxxxxxx

Does that hold tru for all Ty's? CDR too?

[Chewy]

thanks for bringing that up again, chewy.


Does that hold tru for all Ty's? CDR too?

katz,
the answer might be somewhere in here, I know little about cd-r's,
just that nec dvd burners are the prefered scanners, liteon's near useless and benq's just OK.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=76069

[discman]

But still.......almost all those causes can be avoided with proper care and high quality media.

Maybe Memorex is being honest because they are sick of all the complaints and know they make crap media, LOL.

well iv'e tried using verbs with poor results.memorex has always given me excellent results look in the disc scan thread.

[Dan]

That's good, you must be the lucky one.
I have had mostly good, some not as good verbs but I am a TY02 lover all the way. Latest batch is giving me a 98 or 99 QS every burn.

Cheers.

[drfsupercenter]

Yes they do,,memosux are the worse.

It depends, I have gotten Memorexes that were ritek.