CD Degradation After 20 Months

[curritch]

There was a brief article in today's paper about some tests conducted by a Dutch company (PC Active) showing that some manufacturers CD-R's degraded rather quickly due to dye instability.

It didn't elaborate on good and bad manufacturers, though, and their website is in Dutch which I don't read very well.

Anybody know anything about this. I hate to think that the CD-R's and DVD+R's that I have been turning out might have that short a life.

[gmatov]

I've had the problem.
One of my CDs, maybe 15 months old, have to check the burn date, has a bunch of drivers and the like on it. Always carried it to my kids houses to fix or reinstall components on their machines.

Getting to the point that most of the drivers pop up corrupted, cannot install.

Have to burn a new one and do an error check on a monthly basis or something, see if I can graph the degradation.

[Gazorgan]

I had a favorite MP3 CDR go bad. Lots of pops where there were no pops now

The disk has stayed in my computer desk. However, inside my CDRW is nearly always 110 to 120 degrees (hot to touch, but not burning hot).

[lal]

I bought an orginal DVD about an year back and played it about ten
times. Now it doesn't play anymore. I tried couple of different DVD
players and on computer. There are no scratches what so ever on
the disc. Any explanation for this unexpected death???