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CD's Deterioration

I have a couple CD's that have suffered this. I've provided a link to an article in USA Today on this. It's also interesting on what they have to say on CDR brands.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-05-disc-rot_x.htm

Should we be able to get are money back on these CD's? The industry marketed CD's and their inflated price in part based on the "indestructible format". Probably not, but I like to complain sometimes.

Ben
bgpowell
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timo
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Ben: Specifically, what is deteriorating on your CDs? Does it render them unplayable or just sonically degraded?
bgpowell OP
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I have one in which you can see where the film has flaked off and you can see light through the film layer. It starts to play and then "skips". I've had it for years and I tried to play it about 6 months ago and found the damage.
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timo
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That would do it. Poor substrate, not unlike poor magnetic tape substrate quality in some brands.
thinkat
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what kind of cd is that. I still have the first cd i ever bought from 1985. It sounds as auful as it did new. but still physically fine.
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