Gold Plated CD-R/DVD-R to last 80-300 years

[Denvers Dawgs]

Kodak Gold CD DVD media-safe storage

Kodak CD-R 80M 52X Gold Preservation 100PK $114.99

[MOVIEGEEK]

It's about friggin time they brought them back,hopefully other quality manufacturers will come back too...are you listening Ricoh?

[lordsmurf]

We have two problems here:

#1 The "80-300 years" stuff is non-sense.
#2 They quote a dumbass.

In a recent issue of Computerworld Magazine, John Blau reported, "Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD."

The article may as well have said "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and buy our new discs because they're the best ever."

Kodak was never the best, they really were not missed until after they quit making discs, and we saw what was left (CMC, Ritek, Princo). Luckily MCC and TY are still doing CD-R and as good as ever.

That article already has the following comments being left for it:

No Kodak is not really back. KMP Media has just bought the right to use the Kodak name. They buy discs from various manufacturers (mostly crap ones) and put Kodak's logo on the discs... These gold discs will likely be made by MAM (Manufacturing Advanced Media).

And that sounds about right. Kodak swore off optical media (made in Mexico) long ago, sold the plants. And if those are MAM-A discs (a pale shadow of what used to be Mitsui), don't expect anything better than CMC or RITEK.