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Sony Shuts Down Production Of Recordable CD-R, DVD-R And BD-R Discs

Sony has announced the reduction of 250 jobs at its optical disc manufacturing plant in Tagaze, Japan, as part of an initiative to completely phase out the production of recordable optical media. All ...
Audioholics

CD and DVD Longevity: How Long Will They Last?

Data Longevity on CD, DVD Media: How Long Will They Last? In the early '90s when the first CD-R disc was introduced manufacturers said the media had a data life in excess of 40 years. In the late 90s ...
Digi Times

CD-R, DVD+R/-R disc makers expected to have growing orders in 3Q07, but face increased costs

Taiwan-based optical disc makers will receive significantly more OEM orders for CD-R and DVD+R/-R discs this quarter than in the second quarter of 2007, but will suffer unavoidable rises in the ...
Digi Times

Daxon Technology to transform 30% of CD-R disc capacity to DVD+R/-R

Daxon Technology, a second-tier producer of optical discs in Taiwan, will migrate 30% of its CD-R disc production capacity to DVD+R/-R discs this year, according to company chairman Eric Yu. Some ...
The Guardian

CD, DVD or SD: what's best for backups?

I have just been re-reading your article on Backing up digital photos, and would like your opinion of using DVD-RAM discs for this purpose. I have used these for DVD recording and they seem to work ...