CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Dan Koster was unpacking some of his more than 2,000 CDs after a move when he noticed something strange. Some of the discs, which he always took good care of, wouldn't play properly.

Koster, a Web and graphic designer for Queens University of Charlotte, N.C., took one that was skipping pretty badly and held it up to the light.

"I was kind of shocked to see a constellation of pinpricks, little points where the light was coming through the aluminum layer," he says.

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[johnsmatrix]

That sucks... All the more reason people should be able to backup/copy [ games , music cd's, and dvd's ] with out having to dodge all the copy protection. :error

[crackerjacker]

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04127/311683.stm
the old link dont work
this sucks i have had cds fail, but recover it using isobuster

[CRLocky]

This actually used to happen to me... though on cheap generic cds. it makes sense it's cause of poor manufacturing.

I don' tknow what it was, on a few of my cds, these dots would show up and the cd wasn't readable anymore.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Nothing new. This has been known about for ages. I have a bunch of CDs i bought 15 years ago and more which have deteriorated badly and like to skip and jump.

[shawners]

If your still listening to the music from 10-15 years ago thats in your cd collection, its God telling you to move the f@ck on. Especially since Boys II Men, MC Hammer, and Vanilla Ice came in that era.

[notbob]

i have cds older than most of the people here that play just fine

i've never seen one rot (i did explode a few with a shitty cd burner though)

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

It's all in how you take care of them people.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I still have an original Guns and Roses CD which came out in 1987 I think. Its scratched up but it still plays and I also have some led zeplins that are almost as old. Nothing lasts forever, though. I would think its best to make another copy after 10 years or so just in case. I can't wait till there are terabyte discs to put all my stuff on but it will suck when one of those goes bad. I bet a lot of what people call "rot" is caused by substances that come in cantact with the CD's.ramble on

[shawners]

Mine all work, I dont leave them in the car or in a place where the climate changes from one extreme to the others. I leave a 30 pack of CD-r with music on them in my car, and live in Texas. For 2-3 years that I have kept this pack in there. They all play fine.

[crackerjacker]

Mine all work, I dont leave them in the car or in a place where the climate changes from one extreme to the others. I leave a 30 pack of CD-r with music on them in my car, and live in Texas. For 2-3 years that I have kept this pack in there. They all play fine.
well the heat can damage cds
so be careful where u keep them, especially in your car man
and texas is really hot