Does anyone have any recent science showing the 80's (700megs) are any less reliable than the 74's 
(650megs) -- apples to apples on manufacturer and dye material?

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD-R question


> At 05:10 PM 2008-01-04, Mike Richter wrote:
>>I have not checked recently, but historically archival CD-Rs were available only in 63-minute (now 
>>rare if available at all) and 74-minute capacities.
>
> MAM-A is releasing 80-minute gold archival CD-Rs and, unfortunately, the Canadian stocking 
> distributor is no longer carrying the 74-minute ones. It still doesn't solve the problem of the 
> C90 transfer which ends up on two CD-Rs in a single jewel case.
>
> I had used enough of the 80-minute ones without incident for specific projects that I've rolled 
> over and played dead instead of fighting this one with the distributor. It appears that all the 
> people who are using the archival CD-R that at least these folks are supplying, are migrating to 
> the 80-minute ones.
>
> I'm actually moving away from CD-R and going to DVD-R with files or uploads.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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