From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 01:25
From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 01:25
Che wrote: > > I've read many posts like this by people with an axe to grind. Press them > for details, and you find out that they're based on anecdotes - it > happened to a friend of a friend, or they read it on rec.pro.audio, or > whatever. Have you personally experienced optical CDR failures...? > I'm a firm believer in personal experience. I try stuff myself when > possible, and when I can't, I avoid quoting impressionable idiots who > repeat every old wives tale they hear. And I try to do at least some > basic fact-checking. Cyanoacrylate? Sheesh! I would've defended myself earlier but I was out of town. Sorry about "cyanoacrylate" it was the first "cyano-" word that came to mind and I used it as I am a very busy man (snort snort). My experience with CDR failures comes from working at my college radio station, where we have used CDRs and MDs to play promos, PSAs, and whatnot for some time now. Your explanation of the "pause" effect is an important point. Every time we play a CD on the radio, it usually ends up being cued in 'pause' mode for a lengthy period of time beforehand. I didn't think of this when we started having problems, and I should have. Oh well. We left a DYSAN blue CDR out in the sun by my window for a day and a half and were unable to write on it afterwards, so I have had that experience as well. This is no less anecdotal than any evidence not from a laboratory, I'll admit to that. Several CDRs I own have held up to quite alot of physical abuse, being dropped and scuffed etcetera. So I agree that they are kinetically very resilient. But I saw a few too many CDRs die at my radio station from everyday use to not feel the need to bitch. The durability of a CDR is very dependent upon the brand and the speed (4x, 6x, or 8x) at which it can be written. 8x speed CDRs have just come out... I wonder how these will hold up. Tom