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   From: thanks-to@Taf.com   
      
   Not everyone agrees that D.V.D.s are worse than C.D.s.   
      
   Neil Maxwell at Intel wrote in   
   Message-ID: <539gg2lqnqc3dr0ldv6rur7891q5ct121v@4ax.com>   
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   Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:47:11 -0700   
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   |"I've been gathering data on this for some years now.                 |   
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   |I have a set of old disks (Kodak Gold) [. . .]                        |   
   |[. . .]  I also have                                                  |   
   |some unburned Kodak Gold blanks, still wrapped in the jewel cases     |   
   |(this is how quality CDRs came back then), and I was troubleshooting a|   
   |problem the other day where an old laptop drive was failing to read   |   
   |any burned CDs, but was OK on pressed media and burned DVDs.          |   
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   |I burned one of these NOS (new old stock) Kodak Golds at 4x, and the  |   
   |laptop read it just fine.  These blanks are probably 6-7 years old at |   
   |this point, [. . .]                                                   |   
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   Nath wrote in   
   Message-ID: <41580ed2$0$29937$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>   
   in uk.media.dvd on   
   Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:59:33 +0100   
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   |"[. . .] Do single layers have problems with DVD rot type                  |   
   |delayed errors? (OK for a certain length of time, then starts to fail) I've|   
   |had problems with about three DL's that refuse to work after sitting on the|   
   |shelf for a 1-2 years."                                                    |   
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