Re: Question...will DVDs rot if stored flat?

"Black Locust" <bl2112@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <11fqsfut8g63vb6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Alpha" <logos1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Don't be cute. They are around, but the technology curve has
changed
> > greatly for current technologies. I predict no discs in 30 years.
None.
>
> What, are they all going to self-destruct in 30 years? I don't know if
> there will be hardware to play DVDs with in 30 years(hopefully there
> will be...), but the discs will still be around then, to varying
> degrees. Wasn't DVDs longevity one of it's big selling points? In the
> early years of the format, fans of the support would always tout "Hey,
> unlike VHS tapes, DVDs will never wear out or deteriorate. They should
> last you your life time."

Well, it's relative; it all depends on how old you already are. In 30
or 40 years, I'll probably be too old to care.


> So I guess that all means nothing now, eh?

Just marketing lies/BS. They want us to re-buy all of our existing
titles, over and over and over again, on each successive media
type/format. Having one consumer media type/format last 30 or 40 years
reduces their ability to sell us the same title multiple times. That
reduces their profits, and remember, no amount of profit is *ever*
enough.

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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.


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