wrote: > I mistakenly purchased a box of DVD+RW discs rather than the DVD+R > discs. I recall there was an issue with CD-RW media not being as durable > as CD-R media. How about rewriteable DVD media? Does the same difference > hold for DVD?
AIUI CD-RW media are actually slightly _more_ stable, given dark storage in good conditions. I wouldn't trust anything to long-term storage on DVD however. The dyes are different to CDR/W, and some assessments have estimated safe archival life as 3-4yrs max. There are also issues around DVD's being unreadable on drives other than that on which they were written, something I have been personally bitten by with some DVDR supplied to clients, and also a DVDR supplied to me by a friend. When this happens, you can see the dirs and filenames OK, but can't actually open the files. Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
