archival cd-r - really true?

[Zane H. Healy]

> I think the tests and articles in question are talking about the stability
> of the dyes used in the MAM-A (formerly Mitsui) CD-Rs.  I'd be less
> optimistic about the stability of the polymers used for the disc substrate,
> but I'm probably not going to be around in 100 years to find out.  Finding
> CD drives to read the blasted things in 100 years is going to be enough of
> a challenge.

I'm guessing that most of us aren't worried about finding a CD-ROM drive in
100 years, we're concerned with the media being readable when we finally get
around to moving it to whatever will be the storage medium of choice at that
point.

I totally agree with the stability of the polymers, I'm more than a little 
concerned about the suitability of DVD-R's as a result.  Does anyone know of
"Archival Quality" DVD-R's?  I'd be happy with something that's good for 50
years at this point :^)

		Zane