[filmscanners] Re: Bad News on CD longevity

["Austin Smith" <asmith1@bellsouth.net>]

I'm not convinced that the CD is as suspect as that Dutch review indicates.
The digital industry has known for some years that the CD-R is not the
panacea that archivists hoped for, but premium CD-R's offer good, although
not archival, life.  I read a good study on this four or five years ago in a
publication aimed at the digital photography/photo processing industries in
reference to the search for a medium that would allow archival
digitalization of the photography collections of the Library of Congress,
Smithsonian Institution, etc.  The final conclusion was that the CDR-W
offered much better life than CD-R's, life approaching 100 years when
handled properly.  They DID make the point that there some really crappy
CD's and CD-R's on the market, but that the CDR-W was a different animal,
and didn't suffer from the same weaknesses.  Incidentally, I just cranked up
a ten year old Paul Simon CD just to make sure I didn't have a cabinet full
of scrap CD's.  It played just fine.


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