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DVD Lifetime?
Scudworth:
If you keep your backups long enough, one day man will invent something that will work properly. you might not be alive then but your kids or grand kids will be able to watch your horribly outdated and (by their standards) crude anime.
NaRu:
I dont know where you people think DVDs last only 5 to 10 years. Maybe if you live in a desert and have it sand blasted very day. DVDs are lab tested to last about 100 years. If handle poorly and not kept in the cases sitting in the sun or getting wet will start die within 20 to 30 years. I have CDs from the early 90s that are still working today. I also have one of the first DVDs and that still works today.
Scudworth:
100 years?....
actually didn't blue ray advertise something like that when they first came out?
Xtras:
Actually you are right about that. Some of the better quality companies have guaranteed their discs to last 100 years. Most DVD's are pretty much ensured to last 20-30 years minimum anyway. The thing I worry about is that unlike movies that are released, there have been quite a few reports of anime sets being maufactured by low quality producers. Bandai for example had a problem about that with their Gundam Seed Destiny and Code Geass box sets.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: NaRu on August 14, 2009, 05:39:03 PM ---I dont know where you people think DVDs last only 5 to 10 years. Maybe if you live in a desert and have it sand blasted very day. DVDs are lab tested to last about 100 years. If handle poorly and not kept in the cases sitting in the sun or getting wet will start die within 20 to 30 years. I have CDs from the early 90s that are still working today. I also have one of the first DVDs and that still works today.
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Even if you take great care of them. There is nothing you can do about de-lamination or poor quality dvd's If you store it good and leave it in one place sure it could last a long time as long as there is not any moisture. But the more you take it out and play it over and over the durability of it greatly declines.
If you look at this site. near the bottom they have the tests that show some dvd-r only last 1.9 years
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/opticalmedialongevity.html
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