Re: CDs, was DATs, Was Re: arsclist Duplicating casette tapes

["Steve Green" <sgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that's a good point Steve. I believe it was the lacquer side, not the
clear polycarbonate side. Not sure how that might affect the outcome. I
guess the dye layer could be affected more if the clear side were facing
out, yes? But since the disc is essentially "transparent" would it really
make a difference?

I think I'll flip the disc now that you mention it (clear side out), and
leave it that way for another year and see how it plays (or doesn't) then!

Thanks,

Steve

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----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: CDs, was DATs, Was Re: arsclist Duplicating casette tapes


> Steve, which side was facing the window?
>
> Steve Smolian
> From: "Steve Green" <sgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: CDs, was DATs, Was Re: arsclist Duplicating casette tapes
>
>
> > I'm not jumping into the fray here and not lobbying for or against
> anything
> > in particular but--
> >
> > On April 16, 2001 I took a Quantegy gold CD-R with audio tracks recorded
> on
> > it and placed it leaning up on a window sill here in northern Nevada.
The
> > CD-R was thus exposed to full sunlight everyday, plus the full strength
of
> > the sun's heat in summer and cold winter temperatures (not sub-zero
> because
> > it was on the inside of the window...). I did this as a simple real
world
> > experiment, more for curiosity than anything else, to see how well CD-R
> > would hold up under intense UV radiation and fluctuating temperature
> > "extremes." A few months later, I popped the CD in a player and it
worked
> > fine. I returned the disc to it's resting place on the window sill and
> left
> > it there undisturbed until today. Inspired by the current ARSC list
> > discussion, I just now took the same CD-R, blew the dust off it with
> > compressed air, stuck it in a Mac G4 CD drive and voila, it played
fine--
> > at least, it recognized all the tracks fine. I haven't played it through
> > from end to end, just a few seconds of each track. Also, at the moment
> we're
> > not set up here to measure BLER so I can't say what's really going on
with
> > the CD-R but we are now talking about a disc exposed to "elements" (some
> > anyway) for a year and four months (a winter and almost two summers) and
> the
> > information is still retrievable. Though not a scientific experiment, it
> has
> > certainly eased my mind considerably about the robustness of CD-R as a
> > storage medium/format.
> >
> > I understand there are many variables in the manufacture and playback
> > compatibility of CD-R, so this is not conclusive in any sense of the
word.
> > I'm just sharing something I found impressive.
> >
> > Again, this is not intended as an endorsement of CD-R as a preservation
> > format since there is discussion in some circles about other options
> > considered to be superior or preferable. But I thought this report from
> the
> > trenches might interest some readers on the list.
> >
> >
> > Steve Green
> > Western Folklife Center
> >
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