Summary: Light green dye (phthalocyanine) CDRs have longest life.
Table 3: Percentage of discs with a change in average BLER less than 220 for
the CD samples
and average change in PI less than 280 for the DVD samples.
Aging (days) 21 42 63 84 Rank after 84 days Overall rank* (sum of ranks at
each age time)
CD-R (phthalocyanine dye) 97 81 75 72 1 1 (4)
CD (audio) 75 67 54 38 2 2 (9)
DVD (movie); double-sided/single layer 54 27 27 27 3 3 (18)
DVD (movie); single-sided/dual layer (gold) 81 56 12 6 6 3 (18)
DVD-R; single-sided/single layer 50 37 18 8 5 5 (22)
CD-RW 38 22 20 12 4 6 (26)
DVD (movie); single-sided/dual layer (light gold) 75 25 0 0 9 7 (28)
DVD (movie); single-sided/single layer 42 26 16 5 7 7 (28)
CD-R (azo dye) 75 0 0 0 9 9 (32)
DVD (movie); single-sided/dual layer (silver) 56 11 0 0 9 10 (34)
CD-R (cyanine dye) 20 12 12 4 8 11 (36)
DVD-RW 21 0 0 0 9 12 (40)
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