None of this is very comforting when you have thousands of hours invested in
scans that are archived on these CD-Rs.
I feel even more sorry for people shooting with digital cameras, since they
will lose everything if their CD-Rs become unreadable, whereas film scanners
will lose only the scans (but will still be able to scan the originals
again, if they haven't been foolish enough to throw them away).
Yes, I know that one can record multiple CD-Rs, but if they all fail at
roughly the same rate, what good is that? And how many people _really_ make
multiple copies of everything? Even I don't do that, and I'm very paranoid.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>
To: <anthony@atkielski.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 21:56
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: No more Kodak CD-R's
Hi Roy,
I just checked out my Kodak Golds, and you're right, they are Kodak
Japan. While I was at it, I also checked out two gold Maxell disks, and
one was Kodak Japan, and the other was Hitachi/Maxell.
Some of my Fuji disks are also not made by them... So who the heck
knows at this point what to trust.
Art
Roy Smyth wrote:
> At 01:55 AM 2002-10-17 -0700, Arthur Entlich wrote:
>
>>Although I am not positive, I believe the Kodak Gold disks were made by
>>Mitsui. I doubt Kodak made CD-Rs themselves. They usually find high
>>end producers for these non-film products to make the product under the
>>Kodak name. For instance, their very good quality Eastman Broadcast
>>Videotape (also discontinued) was made by TDK.
>>
>
>
> Kodak CDs were made by Kodak Japan.
>
> You can download a free utility (Windows only) that will read the ATIP
> (info) track of a CDR here:
>
>
>
> It will tell you who really made a CD. It doesn't work with all CD
burners.
>
> You can read more about the ATIP track and the utility here:
>
>
>
> I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the article, but the writer seems
> knowledgeable.
>
>
>
> Roy Smyth
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
>
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