In a message dated 27/03/2005 11:14:24 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Commerical dvds do not suffer from this. > Sorry to be long winded. but rather safe than sorry. > Sheila,from a very dull and cool Sawbridgeworth,Herts., > My first boyfirend decided that CDs were the future in 1984 and migrated his entire vinyl collection to CD. He was a complete tech head and used to spread jam on his CDs to prove they would still play with jam on them - as you can understand this is a very important demonstration because you are always getting jam on your CDs (and it had to be strawberry or raspberry as apricot is too clear to show the impact on performance. (No, I'm serious here!) Anyway, the next stage was to drill holes into the CDs - all this showed was that if you drilled holes into a CD that cost a day's wage then you don't have your head screwed on the right way. Within 10 years, the first CDs were starting to deteriorate - what we discovered was that we had been told you could do anything you liked with the CDs but infact they were as sensitive as vinyl and needed to be kept at a certain temperature and handled with care. This is exactly the same issue with DVDs and recordable CDs. I've discovered that repeatedly playing CDs in the car stereo tends to cause them to self destruct because a car CD player gets very hot - hence I do what we used to do as kids, instead of copying my vinyl onto tape, I copy my CDs onto recordable CDs and use them until they self destruct. The key learning from this is that you don't leave your DVD in the player for a long period of time (just like you don't leave a video in the player) and you don't store the DVDs in direct sunlight, even if they are in the boxes. Also, some DVDs are multi regional but normally they are single regiod (however Europe and Australia are in the same region; if they work in Oz they work in Europe but USA DVDs do not work in the UK / Oz and vice versera). Very much now a case of buyer beware Regards Liz in London I'm back blogging my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
