Re: Nimbus now selling CD-Rs

In article <4863bd65$0$5016$607ed4bc@xxxxxx>,
Norman M. Schwartz <nmsz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alan P Dawes wrote:
In article <FNw8k.16$x65.5@trnddc01>,
Dan Amodeo <NotMyAddress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kirk McElhearn wrote

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), a properly cared for disc which is stored under recommended
storage conditions can have a very long life expectancy. NSIT's
research has concluded that CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R discs should have
a life expectancy of 100 to 200 years or more.

That's what's called a guesstimate...

But if they don't last that long, you could probably get your money
back.

How? In the UK (and I think this also applies in other countries)
consumer protection legislation only allows 6 years in England and
Wales and 5 years in Scotland to bring a case for faulty goods and
this is only against the retailer not the manufacturer as you have no
direct contract with the manufacturer unless you buy from them.


I'm looking at a TDK CD-R's back inlay (came in individual jewel cases
back when) and is written "FULL LIFETIME WARRANTY... REPLACEMENT IS THE
SOLE OBLIGATION OF THIS WARRANTY". I don't believe that the then
manufacturer is the same as is the present, so the usual applies: whose
lifetime, their's or mine?

Neither, it's the lifetime of the product - as soon as the product "dies"
that is the end of its life and thus the warranty :-)

Alan

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