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Re: arsclist non-member questions about CD-Rs
In discussing my decision with some people at NARAS (Grammy Grant folks)
to use Mitsui Gold blanks, they were comfortable that I had thought
through the process and did not have any alternative suggestions. We both
chuckled at Mitsui's 300-year life expectancy claim, but wondered how
their lawyers would let them say that if there was not at least some shard
of evidence.
I have a copy of the Mitsui test report that makes the 300 year claim. If
anybody wants to see it, let me know. As I remember, it was an average of
300 year LE on average, 145 year LE with 95% confidence. But anyway, the
whole point of the Mitsui study was that Phthalocyanine media outlasts
Cyanine media, not that it lasts forever.
David
David Seubert, Curator
Performing Arts Collection
Davidson Library Special Collections
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749
mailto:seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/
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