Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are DVDs and then there are DVDs... I still prefer the MAM-A Gold Archive CDs for photos.... but have been using the MAM-A Gold archive DVD's at times for video files that are larger.... and for some photo subjects... I try to keep things on a hard drive as well which makes migration easier... The CDs as medium should last 120+ years... the DVDs around 50.... (so they should last long enough till they need to be transfered to the next offline storage medium) I don't stick anything of value on anything else.... we sometimes duplicate videos and other short-term usage/giveaways on memorex or other basic DVDs.... and the failure rate of those DVDs is scary.... I've seen way too many DVDs that aren't readable in 3 or 4 years... assuming they didn't fail immediately... I have audio CD's that people recorded less than 5 years ago that have errors... and cannot be copied/duplicated directly without playing them and re-recording the audio. I've not had any problems with any of my Mitsui/MAM-A CDs or DVDs... Kodak used to say that they didn't know exactly how long their (Mitsui) silver or gold CDs would last.... but that all things being equal, their gold medium ones would last 6 times longer than their silver ones... I appreciated Brians presentation and notes.... a bit sobering... but that's the reality of digital media I do miss the days when you shot a roll a slide film/ or negs, developed it, put it in a page and stuck in a binder catalog... life was so much easier... On the other hand.... It is awfully nice not to have to scan negatives and slides and retouch out scratches and dust embedded in the emulsion.... Duane