[filmscanners] A for sale question

["Eric C" <eric.calderwood@btinternet.com>]

Hello,

A question, are we allowed to advertise a scanner for sale on the group?

Thanks
Eric Calderwood
(Liverpool U.K)




On 29/8/03 4:31 pm, "rkoziol3@comcast.net" <rkoziol3@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 27 Aug 2003 at 17:40, Arthur Entlich wrote:
>
>> Did they test the 2001 product and current product using the same write
>> speed and same burner?
>
> That's not always a fair test.  New CD-R blanks, rated for higher
> speed, have (may have, since nobody knows) different properties.
>
> Each burner (brand and vintage) has it's own magical way of
> determining a laser setting for each type of CD-R chemistry.  Some
> burning software does "laser calibration", whatever it means, other
> does not.  Or at least it does not tell you.
>
> You quickly approach a "can of worms" scenario.
>
>> If one has a lot of several year old blank CD-R media, will it "keep"
>> unrecorded better than the new stuff being sold?
>
> All I have read on this subject is that unrecorded media has a shelf
> life of about 2 years.  Recorded CD-R are much more stable.
>
>> Based upon this new info, are CD-RW still considered less reliable than
>> current CD-R product?
>
> I have never heard (except maybe here) that CD-RW media is more
> stable than CD-R.  From personal experience, I have lost data after
> only a month on CD-RW, but never on CD-R.  Not a real test, just a
> real life experience :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
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> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
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