Hi Roy! :-)

 PS>> Note that the discussion then was about writable CDs, not those
 PS>> pressed in a factory. Direct sunlight (i.e. lots of heat) is still
 PS>> a problem with pressed CDs, but moisture less so.
 RJT> Does that distinction still hold for DVDs,  as well as CDROMs?
Yes. Pressed DVDs will likely last long, writable DVDs use organic
material, so they are subject to the same problems that writable CDs are.
No doubt we will soon see el-cheapo DVD brands that just barely fit
acceptable standards. You can see that with el-cheapo CDs now - I have some
here that were written about 8 months ago that are NOT readable in all of
the CD/DVD drives I have. My Toshiba DVD-ROM cannot read some of the files
on them, the Ricoh DVD burner still can (lucky me); so I used the burner to
read the discs and created a new DVD+R from the contents.

Ciao
Pascal

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