Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/10/71 11:44

"doc" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>> "doc" wrote ...
>>> Thanks all and for an update, the DVD Media that we've been using is
>>> Verbatim, Fuji, & Maxell for Television Broadcast if this helps in
>>> the discussion. Moreover, we want the discs to last since it will
>>> be my clients archive media.
>>
>> Writable optical discs are NOT archive media.
>> Unless your definition of "archive" is "this month next year".

> and by writable optical disc's you mean? and if that answer is
> verbatium or maxell dvd-r's

A writable optical disc is a CD or DVD that you wrote
yourself. (As contrasted with sending it off to be mastered
on a glass disc and then moulded into plastic).

> then what is your answer for archival?

Digital magnetic tape. 99.9999% of all the information archives
on this particular planet are stored in that format. It was not an
arbitrary choice.

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