[vdr] Re: vdr killed my video archive

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

> Hallo Matthias Schniedermeyer,
> am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 um 16:34 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> 
> MS> This is because since "day one" i prefer "permanent(tm)" recordings.
> MS> First on CD-R and since 2 years on (Data-)DVD-R.
> 
> How "permanent" is a recording on DVD? I just began to store
> recordings to DVDs using vdrconvert, and i wonder what is the
> "lifetime" of a DVD? I once had some burned AudioCDs that worked fine at
> first, but became unreadable after one or two years (they were used
> normally i.e. didn't expose them to sunlight thruout the whole
> summer).
> You wouldn't call one to two years "permanent", would you?

I'd guess that i have to copy the DVD-R after 10 years.
(Verbatim "advertices" with a lifetime of 20 or 100 years. But i don't
believe that)

By that time there is a new media (My current future-vision sees
Blu-Ray) and i would copy the DVD-R anyway, so this is no problem at
all.

> MS> (Currently > 500 DVD-Rs)
> 
> Just wondering:
> when are you going to watch all this stuff??? ;-)

Mostly never. But i look EVERYTHING before i burn it. So i've seen
everything at least once. :-)

Up to now i only (re)watched a handlfull of Movies and 2 complete
series.



Bis denn

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