[quote name=\'TheLastResort\' post=\'156192\' date=\'Jun 27 2007, 07:19 PM\']Trust me, I know that. I take anything I read on a message board with a grain of salt (no offense, but this one included). [/quote]
No offense taken, at all. If anything, my whole point is that a
healthy skepticism is a good thing.
Toward that end,
consider the thread once again. The original poster, the one who wrote "Disc Fade is REAL" was referring to discs he burned on a player he purchased in September, 2003. He wrote his dire warning in March, 2005. His discs were failing eighteen
months after they were recorded, and he was blaming it on "disc fade," the term that naysayers are using to suggest the entire format is essentially worthless. I would suggest that if the general population was having widespread problems with discs a year and a half after they were burned, you'd be reading about it in a lot more places than on-line forums.
Most independent testing organizations are using 20 to 30 years as a lowball estimate of the longevity of burnable DVDs that are properly cared for. But the simple truth is we don't know because they haven't been around that long. Still, common sense says that if something is truly important to you, you save the originals even after you've made copies. If anyone has made the decision that physical space is a serious consideration, I suggest you take Jimmy up on his warehousing offer.
