Is DVD or VCD the correct media for long time storage?
 

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 :idea:
What do you think :?:

-kwag

i ever think about this!
i worked repairing videok7,tvs,dvds,cds and other "sss". :wink:
when toshiba put the cds on Brasil,i was work there and the
vice-president from Japan(toshiba) came and i was the "boss" here
in my city and he say:
cd is more durable,more stable and tons of "more" 8O
and he say that learn portuguese in two weeks too! :lol: 8O
how was the strong lie? :jawdrop:



have some vhs tapes too and try to convert to kvcd but capture isn't good
with my all in wonder! :(
but works(more or less).

what i do:
convert to svcd or kvcd and "save" a copy in a box for backup.
if the first broke,i get the backup and copy!

and i have tons of musics cds too:nobody can touch it! :gun:
afraid if scratch. :wink:

editing:

better is not play football with vhs and cds....get "extended time". :punch:
take it easy.

I think the answer is yes and no, depending on the value of the video you want to backup. For hollywood movies i think the original dvd plus a kvcd backup is good enough. For personal videos (wedding, kid's, etc..) the original vhs+ kvcd backup+ dvd backup (if you have a burner) is great.
What is the new d-vhs media?? I haven't heard about that.

@Kwag,

Kwag wrote:
I have some old VHS movies where the iron oxide has crumbled and play-
the tapes ruined them, since it rubs on the VCR heads. Those that look-
ed good were no match with DVD video and audio available today.
I bought DVD's discs I discovered to be scuffed. Some had no problems
playing on a stand-alone-player, but could not be read by my PC's DVD
drive. Only a few DVD's had problems with both. It's possible to ruin VHS
tapes,e.g. they are sensitive to magnetic objects, just a CD's. Even
S-VHS is far from the quality of DVD. I expect the future resolutions for
DVD to improve beyond 720X480 with HDTV. I'm sticking with DVD
backup's. :D

-black prince

Digital VHS :D
44GB on a tape 8O
Look here: http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/english/D-VHS/dvhs-e.html

The machine is already being sold at Sears 8)

-kwag

@ all

:!:


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