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Old 11-12-2004, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie
Disc one of my Buffalo boot died this summer. 1/3 of the cd lost it's shiny surface. You can literally see through it. Anyone have this happen to any cds?
I have no idea what might've caused it.
may have something similar to what is called CD Rot:

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/General/CDRot/CDRot.html

http://www.foetusized.org/cdrot.html

I had to trash a great sounding U2 disc that suffered from the same fate where the aluminum surface peeled off which left the cd without any data to be read and played.

Whoever said cd's last a lifetime need to rethink that theory, Cause it is very flawed...

Brian j.
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