On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Selva Nair wrote: > > Oh, no I am not going to move my tapes onto optical media -- atleast not > until those high-density optical disks like DVR's become available at an > affordable price.
DVD-R blanks are about 39 cents each in 100 packs. Considering that's the equivalent of 7 CD-R's, at about twelve cents a gigabyte, I'd call that affordable. > But I am curious about the shelf-life of recorded dv > tapes. Reading about data archiving practices of tape strorage in > controlled atmosphere, regular wind/rewind/retension procedures and the > real paranoids even suggesting to make copies onto fresh tapes every few > years or so, There mere presence of such elaborate procedures to prevent tape decay would suggest to me that they're not the best choice for archiving. > I do wonder whether my precious little mini-dv recording of > 1997 summer vacation in St. Petersburg will play fine 25 years down the > line.. My oldest tapes are already 5 years old and haven't touched some of > them for a year atleast. I'd be more concerned about the hardware to play them being around in 25 years. At least with DVD I know I've got something that's already digital, so if some new storage technology comes along that obsoletes DVD, all I have to do is copy them over. Plus as long as I don't scratch them up, their shelf life is very long, and they won't wear out from my playing them. -- Robert Kesterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
