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I’m greatly irritated by the propagation of the “optical discs not so immortal” article published recently by the Associated Press, which is actually a very old story pertaining primarily to discs with manufacturing errors, e.g. the CDs pressed between 1989 and 1991 by Philips Data Optical (PDO) whose deterioration has been common knowledge amongst music collectors for at least a decade, or to discs that suffer due to extreme lapses in manufacturing quality.
The AP even quoted Fred R. Byers, whose Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs had already addressed the source of the panic in the article. People who treat their discs carelessly have a problem. People who don’t care about quality aren’t archivists.
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