20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
3:53 a.m.
Kodak used to make Gold CD-R's too, but they got
out of that
business several years ago. I managed to buy a few
palletfulls in their fire sale.
What is the manufacturer's projected pre-burn shelf-life
of a CD-R blank?
I don't expect to need CD-Rs for future archival purposes
(since I expect I'll be using DVD-R or whatever comes next),
but I might want to burn a CD-R for some machine or other
that does not understand anything more recent.
So when I see CD-R blanks going the way of the dodo in a few
years time, and I decide to do an end-of-life buy, just how
long can I expect those blanks to survive on the shelf?
Antonio