Posted by Romeo Rondeau on 01/11/16 11:45

>> >>Here's a story about new Kodak DVD and CD archival media. DVD has 80 -
>> >>100
>> >>year life, and CD has a 300 year life with gold substrate.
>> >>http://www.betanews.com/article/New_CDs_DVDs_Could_Last_300_Years/1145378116
>> >>
>> > They would say that wouldn't they? Bet they can't prove it though!
>> >
>> > Trouble with both DVD's and CD's is they are quite vulnerable to
>> > damage,
>> > and when damaged are unrepairable. I've got tape archived from 20 years
>> > ago and it's still OK
>>
>> And how do you repair it when it's damaged?
>
>
> You should know better than to hit this crossposted malarky.
>
> DVD's could last 300 years? Or one day, depending......

Cheap media is cheap media. My point is that a damaged tape is still a
damaged tape. Trying to apply analog tape salvaging techniques to digital
media (or sometimes no technique at all) and then complaining about how it
doesn't work well isn't getting anybody anywhere. Damaged CD's and DVD's can
be salvaged (some of the material will not be usable, just like analog
tape... no difference there.) Putting the CD in the drive, then throwing
your hands up and exclaming that digital storage cannot be salvaged when
there is a problem is a bit like throwing the car away when a tire goes
flat. There are plenty of tools out there to recover as much of the digital
file as possible. That's the best you can do on analog as well. It's a lot
easier to fix a dropout on a DAW than it is to fix it on analog tape.
Remember the time when you had a huge dropout on the Mitsubishi and had to
hire session musicians to come in and re-record the song? I fixed the
original on a DAW (the clients liked the original one better) a year or so
after you left Patrick's. Piece of cake. There was nothing but a machine
when you were there, I showed up with a multitrack DAW (archaic by today's
standards) and fixed it all up. Didn't take too long, either. Point is, if
you throw the CD in the drive and it doesn't read, find out why, then fix
it... if you can't fix it, get as much as you can salvage and try to make it
inaudible (easier than you think), if you can do it, hire it out to someone
that can. Anything less is unprofessional at best.

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