This is something that has been bugging me for a while. A couple of years ago, my wife bought the DVD set of "Toy Story". A couple of months ago, she gave me the set to make a back up copy. I was surprised when I tried to rip the second DVD ( Toy Story II ), because it wouldn't read on my PC. So I took it to my standalone player, and "Disk Error" or something displayed. I took a look at the DVD, and it looks like the surface is blurred. Obviously, a media defect. So we lost that movie, as no DVD reader can read it. Not even part of it. On the other hand, she has a collection of VHS movies that are about 15 years old, and all of them still play fine! Some have a lot of "Drop-outs", and some are very good. All are watcheable. My question is this: 10 or 15 years from now, will our DVDs and VCDs created today still play
Because the way I see it, if a VHS tape breaks or something, it's just a matter of opening the case and splicing together the tape, and that's it
. If a DVD or VCD scratches or the surface becomes damaged, you loose the complete video
Think about all of this for a moment. I think DVDs VCD and KVCDs bring us high quality, but what about durability
Maybe we should back up to KVCD and ALSO to VHS or consider the new D-VHS media
What do you think
-kwag