European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cd not forever after All by Hans Fantel new York times Hen compact disks emerged about Lour years Back Oxler avanant attributes were ascribed to them. They were supposed to be perfect and to last forever. Experience has amended these Hopes. Perfection has t yet arrived. While cd can and often do sound better than anything before the Quality of any particular disk still depends on the skill and judgment of she receding engineers who happened to be on the Job the Day the disk was made. As for durability nobody knows How Long a co will last. But As a recording medium in the Broad sense of the term it will certainly outlast paper Parchment or Graven Slone. It May Lake centuries or millennia to prow it. Bul As Lar As anyone can Lell a cd should last As Long As human civilization does even ii one takes an optimistic View of the latter. This is Why archival institutions such As the Library of Congress Are now transferring their most important documents to digital disks audio and video to foil the tooth of time yet the longevity of digital disks is conditional i depends on the Way the disks Are kept and treated. Too Many listeners stiff believe those Early and decidedly Over enthusiastic advertisements thai claimed Hal cd were immune to such notorious record killers As dust smudges and fingerprints trusting these extravagant pronouncements they treat their cd cavalierly and Are dismayed when their disks develop a Case of the hiccups momentarily blanking out the music if thy an to tear cd Mutt be handled Camully for vhf in a Container when nor in us. These effects of mishandling Are far More annoying on cd than on conventional recordings the pops and ticks heard on a mistreated up can to mentally filtered out by experienced listeners much As City dwellers tune out traffic noise. Bul nobody can ignore the total if temporary stoppage of the music which occurs when the cd laser can t read what s on the record because of surface flaws. Such trouble can be avoided ii the cd is handled just As carefully As an up or a photo negative touched Only at the edges and placed in a protective Container when not in use. Thai s Fine ii you re fastidious. The rest of us alas have been known to grab a cd like e Sandwich Lumble while loading it into Ira player and scuff it in the process or actually drop it on the floor. The result of such mishaps accumulated in time is a pattern of smudges scars and scratches on the Mirror surface of the disk. The smudges Are easily removed All ii takes is a gentle wipe with a soil cloth bul remember never to wipe a co with a circular motion. Always move the cleaning cloth in a straight line from the Center toward the outer Edge. Thai Way the cleaning motion Iran Sells the digital Irack radially Alfier than following it Lengthwise forestalling possible scoring thai May distract the laser. To make sure it s done right it is Best to use a mechanical cleaning device such As Reboton s co or the track male tm-351, both priced at $1995, the track male cleans the disks with a liquid developed by old Brucie is Back for More by Vernon Scott United press International Ruce the voracious and vengeful Greal while shark is Back More chilling than Ever stalking Ocean bathers Lor snacks. This particular shark is one of the Forest losers in my history. Every time human beings immolate shoot blow up or otherwise abuse this finny menace he returns in the next film meaner than before. In jaws the revenge old Bruce surfers an even worse indignity than in his first three pictures. He is driven Oil and presumably killed by a Mere woman. On that occ�4on, old Brucie is impaled on the Bowsprit of a sailing boat off Coral Harbor in the Bahamas a Long Way from his new England hangout. And the woman who does him in is the Long suffering Ellen Brody who has watched innumerable friends and a son gobbled up by the blood thirsty great while shark. Ellen is portrayed by Lorraine Gary who has appeared in three of the jaws films skipping jaws 3-d, which was a distinct Box office disappointment the film is us billed this time it s personal which suggests Bruce has a personal vendetta against the Brody family. The real reason there is a third sequel to jaws is that Over the years the shark has made More Money for Universal pictures than any of its other stars All to