Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Planned obsolescence.

Perhaps not. But still a somewhat frightening article in the Post today, on "techno-rot" on CDs and DVDs. Apparently caused by some combination of poor manufacturing and poor storage or handling, CDs and DVDs can undergo deterioration of the data-carrying layer, causing them to skip and play poorly. And as a result, they're not quite as indestructible as once thought.

You were going to have to buy everything all over again when the next data-storage medium became popular, anyway.

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