I'll be the first to say it.

OLD.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060110/tc_pcworld/124312;_ylt=AsMthtTmZFDawbt4YbJvgrCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

1/12/2006 3:23:27 AM

next they're going to have an article on how plasma screens have burn-in.

gg publishing common knowledge.

1/12/2006 3:32:46 AM

I have some that old that still work

but none the less I have moved all of my important data off of CD-R's and back onto backed up harddrives thanks to the price falling on those.

1/12/2006 8:13:53 AM

me too.

i dont use any form of CD anymore.

1/12/2006 8:28:40 AM

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"gg publishing common knowledge."

no problem jose!

1/13/2006 12:17:14 PM

what about DVD-R's

i just put about 15 -20 video tapes onto dvd's and now im worried.

1/13/2006 12:22:32 PM

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1/13/2006 1:35:06 PM

^^ just put the files onto a computer...or transfer to another disk a few years from now
no biggie

1/13/2006 2:26:04 PM

yeah, this is one of the many things that scares me about digitization of knowledge. it's our library of alexandria

1/13/2006 2:29:41 PM

i have some cd-r's from 99 that still play without any problem in my cd player

1/13/2006 2:38:35 PM

I store pretty much anything that I feel is important in my Gmail account.

1/13/2006 3:53:31 PM

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"i have some cd-r's from 99 that still play without any problem in my cd player"

1/13/2006 4:02:40 PM

^ YMMV

I have had CD-Rs that "lost" their data after being stored. If I burn a CD, it is just to be used in an audio CD player or for quick data transfer.

I only backup my data to hard disks for long-term storage. I will only keep things on CDs or DVDs that I don't mind loosing.

1/13/2006 5:56:16 PM

place I worked for was putting backed up customer data onto CD-R's

I was like o.O

1/13/2006 6:02:25 PM