RJH wrote:



I'd agree on the retail music and data CDs. But not on writeable, and
certainly not rewritable. Quite a few of mine from 10+ years back can't
be read, and they've been stored in reasonably good conditions.


** The famous phrase you cited NEVER applied to either of those, as they are came along much later and were not intended for the release of commercial recordings.

My recollection is that the phrase was just a marketing device,


** It was really neither.

The phrase alludes to two facts: that 44.1kHz, 16bit PCM is a no compromise stereo audio recording technique and that factory made CDs offer the potential of having an indefinite life, no matter how often played.

Reasonable persons might well sum that combination up in a few words, like those in the phrase.


..... Phil