OFF: CD Rot

[Chris Allen]

I've had the same thing happen twice, but both CDs were Mike Oldfield
albums, both on Virgin too...
I have a copy of Tangerine Dream's Rubycon (curiously also Virgin) which has
gone from silver to a lovely burnished bronze and gold sunburst, but it
plays perfectly.

Wasn't it just Philips CDs that were meant to degrade like this?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: CD Rot


> On 18/10/2004 13:12, Henderson Keith wrote:
> > Bummer that it's QSC, a rather rare disc, but not so tragic as I believe
I
> > have a Griffin copy back in the US in storage.  But anyway, was just
curious
> > as to whether anyone else had problems with this particular disc, or
else
> > Virgin CDs of the same era.  This one is rather 'early generation' of
CDs
> > and suppose that the quality/durability of more recent discs against
things
> > like CD rot has been improved.  The only other disc I had problems with
was
> > the Dovetail "Pungent Effulgent" (Ozrics) which (like many of those old
PDO
> > discs) simply became unreadable by any player.  I forgot to check to see
> > whether this one was also a PDO disc.
>
> My old Virigin _QS&C_ did the same thing quite a while back.  Rare or
> not, I think I ditched it when the Griffin one came out (since I'm only
> interested in the music, not the media :)
>
> My old Dovetail _Live Underslunky_ has looked rotted for years (a weird
> bronze color), but still plays/reads fine.  I had a Tull live disc from
> Strange Fruit (?), I think, which was reported to have CD rot and the
> company actually sent a new one to anyone who asked, if I remember
> aright, though mine never actually failed to play (I think I might still
> have both of these, somewhere ....).
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>


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