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Originally Posted by Electronic M
5 Backups! If you have more than 3 (of different brands/types) fail before you can replace the first to go bad, then you must be being hacked by someone, or in some kind of natural disaster, or something!...There is no way 5 dupes can die like that under normal circumstances!
ED, you should rip your older DVDs to your computer and back them up so you can still watch them after they die of rot....You might even be able to burn replacements as needed.
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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx
Way I do it too, with DVDs, but unfortunately I'm finding more than one DVD that won't play now that are about 10-15 yrs old. "FM" and "Cream - Royal Albert Hall - London May 2005" for two. Both are dual layer DVDs. Not happy about the slow rotting demise of some of my DVDs.
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Yes.I probably exaggerated with the 5 . I probably sound hard on digital stuff but dont trust it.If they can make it rock solid .I might reconsider in trusting it.Its great for editing audio/video and photos .I agree on ripping the old DVDs.I'm lucky that I dont have a big DVD collection.BS as they say they last for 50 plus years.No QC on the blanks and end up with coasters .I have not burn a CD in years. I'm already having external drives and SD cards failing.
I remember when I was gung ho when the CD burners came out and when the DVD recorders came out but when they started to spit out coasters.Thats when I started to loose interest in it.VHS,Beta, cassettes,Reel to Reel ,8track and vinyl last almost forever and digital dont.I feel sorry about the families that got their entire home video video tape ,8mm film and photo collection transferred to DVD and more likely thrown out the VHS,VHS C and 8mm tapes.I always say to people that do it to keep all of your photos and home videos for backup.