Posted by Flasherly on 04/23/07 04:11

On Apr 15, 8:49 pm, "electrochrome" <metachroma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Recordable DVDs rely upon a dye to preserve the
> > information. That dye, even if protected from sunlight, will fade
> > over time. Current estimate is as short as 5 years time.
>
> The "estimates" are B.S., as usual. I have DVD-R discs I traded
> for back in late 2002. They still play perfectly. Here's a real hoot
> --
> one of 'em is an Optodisc brand! The worst of the worst. Total
> crap. Yet it still plays beautifully on my eqpt. Go figure.
>
> Of course, any sensible person will periodically dupe all hi/r
> DVD-Rs every couple of years. My duping period is 2 years.
> Everything gets duped once it hits the 2 year mark. So I've
> got at least 2 copies of everything in my collection. Sure, that's
> a lotta DVD-Rs, when you dupe 'em incrementally, it's easy

Uh-huh. Try that with 3 DVD (1LG/2NEC) units and near 400 DVDs.
Figure 20 minutes for a 3-pack copy (3 DVDs at once > HD). That
aspect's 133 hours, or a week going at it 24 hours a day. Just to get
them on the HD. Now, one at a time, bring them back up at 30 minutes
(once to write and once to run a CRC verified copy checksum before
deleting the HD sources). 2 DVDs an hour, sizing discs and jotting
down new covers between, or add another 200 hours laser write time.

Right. Every couple years. At least they're DVD+RW, and mostly
converted from x2 to X4. RiData and Memorex - few 50 or so Optidisc.
5 years, maybe, they can go on some new BlueRay stuff, or something.
20-50G a disc.

Real-time sound editing and on-the-fly video captures. If it's
volume, it's work, plain and simple, and the only thing incremental is
for sure a rote numbness after a few hours of it.

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