Thread: Computer - copying VHS to DVD

Interestingly, I was doing some research on archival life of optical media for work last week. It would appear that optical media should have a life between 20 and 100 years depending on the quality.

Picking the quality is hard though. Buying a brand name doesn't always guarentee success. I have a good link on this that i'll put up next week when I get to my work favourites.

Also of interest was that they said that people should re-fresh their media as often as possible. So, once it's on DVD doesn't mean it's safe forever. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

Originally posted by Captain_Rightfoot
Also of interest was that they said that people should re-fresh their media as often as possible. So, once it's on DVD doesn't mean it's safe forever. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

As horrible as this thought is - this also applies to purchased DVD's. Though they are pressed instead of burnt so they last longer, they still have a limited life span.

I would *like* to burn all my DVD's onto HDD somewhere, but that would mean I'd need something like 2TB of (preferrably raid-protected) HDD space and I just don't know if I'll be able to convince my wife I actually need it 8O ops: 8)