Say hello to the 1000 year lifespan DVD disc

"only last between 3-5 years"

Guess they don't make the newer media like they used to. I have Verbatim cd-r discs that are over 10 years old and they still work fine. Just pulled off an old WWIV BBS source code and compiler from one to check.

I remember hearing that someone actually stored a lot of dvd´s to check how long they would last..quite possibly it was afterdawn article/news. While there are of course crappy dvd discs, that doesn't mean that most will die after 5 years. Some will but i would like to see some evidence for their claim "standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs only last between 3-5 years".

Imho this is big marketing scam, and lg fell for it. Unless these medias are a lot cheaper than blu-ray disks i don't really see the point. Most people use different backup medias than opticals anyway...

I've never had a DVD or CD just stop working except when they were thrashed on the bottom, or burnt media from 99-02 that wasn't stored properly. I would say the vast majority of well kept disc media will last as long as the owner.

What is this "DVD disc" thing you speak of?

Originally posted by oappi:

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I remember hearing that someone actually stored a lot of dvd´s to check how long they would last..quite possibly it was afterdawn article/news. While there are of course crappy dvd discs, that doesn't mean that most will die after 5 years. Some will but i would like to see some evidence for their claim "standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs only last between 3-5 years".

Imho this is big marketing scam, and lg fell for it. Unless these medias are a lot cheaper than blu-ray disks i don't really see the point. Most people use different backup medias than opticals anyway...

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no one will know what bluray is in a thousand years

Originally posted by Smacks:

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no one will know what bluray is in a thousand years

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i guess this means vinyl records will last till the world explodes.

Originally posted by NeoandGeo:

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I've never had a DVD or CD just stop working except when they were thrashed on the bottom, or burnt media from 99-02 that wasn't stored properly. I would say the vast majority of well kept disc media will last as long as the owner.

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This is great...I have been victim of CD-R decay; a lot of my old backups from the 1990's have degraded to the point that some tracks won't even rip. My early DVD backups have started to have the same issue. These are in an air conditioned house, out of direct sunlight at all times, and in cases.

I could certainly see the value of these to an archivist. It would also be great for time capsule projects and for the (many) long term survival shelters being built.

Granted, Bluray will be an outdated format before too long...but the content on the disks will be stable. Once there is a better way to store data in a stable way, the data can be transferred over without any data loss.

Just tested my 1993 311 debut album and it works like a charm despite it having microscratches all over the bottom, and has seen its share of heat/cold spikes from being left in my car cd-player for several years. :)

the disk can outlast the machine used to read it. i doubt will still be using DVD's 60 years into the future let alone 1000. if looking to the past for the future is still valid, im sure me taking a shite on the crapper will be more entertaining than anything Hollywood could turn out...what the hell would people watch 1000 years into the future anyway....Die Hard 213 Mech'O-War, or did we do that one already.

Hell, in just over 100 years most spoken languages will have evolved into something completely different. Other than historical value, nothing will maintain in its original context whatsoever.

People will be "translating" or "interpreting" what they are viewing & try to incorporate it into their future thinking world. Think of it as what people are doing with religious scriptures today. Dead languages & cultural from 2000 years ago trying to be pertinent in today's society.

Moral context aside, people are just going to 'guess' what was being said or recorded & then fight over what the ideals were to mean by the 'guy' that did the actual documentation. I.e., everything is recorded with a bias. So basically, Die Hard may actually be seen as Shakespeare some 150 to 200 years down the road.

Now wouldn't that be a huge joke?

I guess I have always purchased exceptional quality CD and DVD blanks (NOT, I usually bought the cheapest I could find) because I have too many to count that were written 10 years ago or older that are still going strong. I have had one or two go bad, but I was not able to pinpoint the reason for the failure. One or two failures out of the hundreds of discs I have burnt is inconsequential.

I have switched to using Blu-Ray blanks because they are less prone to scratching and store significantly more information.

I will have to agree to dis-agree with Millenniata.

Where can I find the great “glossary of terms and acronyms” you used to have?

Originally posted by Byron9:

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Where can I find the great “glossary of terms and acronyms” you used to have?

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