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I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Gary

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On Dec 1, 12:22*pm, "Gary" wrote:
I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. *before it is too late.

Gary

Yup. The DV tapes I have in a box in the garage going back 10-12 years
have fared much better. Perfect they were, compared to the thin layer
DVD-RWs I used for TV viewing. Time to re-load them onto a hard drive
instead of DVD.

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On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:08:01 -0800 (PST), Mike
wrote:

Yup. The DV tapes I have in a box in the garage going back 10-12 years
have fared much better. Perfect they were, compared to the thin layer
DVD-RWs I used for TV viewing. Time to re-load them onto a hard drive
instead of DVD.

I still have Video 8 tapes from 1988 which replay with no problems.

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"Gary" wrote in message
...
I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Gary

The best back up for home recorded DVD's is the original tape. The only
problem with that is years down the road, you will have a hard time finding
a working machine to play them on.

I will take one exception to your comments though. The video quality on
DVD's does not get "fuzzy" over time like a tape might do. They can refuse
to play, or skip and freeze, or even get pixilated, but not fuzzy.

-Bill

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On 1-Dec-2009, "William Skaggs" wrote:

The video quality on
DVD's does not get "fuzzy" over time like a tape might do. They can
refuse
to play, or skip and freeze, or even get pixilated, but not fuzzy.

A lot depends on the blank media you use, and the performance of
the burner.

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Gary wrote:

I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Gary

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yeah, I keep meaning to reburn ours

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"Gary" wrote in message
...
I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Yep - recordable optical media seems to become unreadable in a few years.
I've noticed this too. I used to backup my Playstation 1 games and use the
backups. They were expensive branded CDs, and now all of them (10 years
later) are unreadable.

I read a page online about this phenomenon a few years ago, and the theory
was that over time normal light (from sun, bulbs, etc) would blank the
discs. While the laser (which is just light of a specific wavelength) was
much more powerful, it was only on each bit (or pit) of the disc for an
extremely short time. Over the years, the ambient light adds up to a pass
with the laser. I'm not saying this is true, but it's what I read, and I do
have some support for this as media I've kept in a metal safe (i.e. dark)
has been fine, despite being recorded on the same burner and the media being
the same type.

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Vincent wrote:

"Gary" wrote in message
...
I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Yep - recordable optical media seems to become unreadable in a few years.
I've noticed this too. I used to backup my Playstation 1 games and use the
backups. They were expensive branded CDs, and now all of them (10 years
later) are unreadable.

I read a page online about this phenomenon a few years ago, and the theory
was that over time normal light (from sun, bulbs, etc) would blank the
discs. While the laser (which is just light of a specific wavelength) was
much more powerful, it was only on each bit (or pit) of the disc for an
extremely short time. Over the years, the ambient light adds up to a pass
with the laser. I'm not saying this is true, but it's what I read, and I do
have some support for this as media I've kept in a metal safe (i.e. dark)
has been fine, despite being recorded on the same burner and the media being
the same type.

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Vincent

so on that note would stuff being kept in proper dvd cases not be well
protected?

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Gary wrote:

I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Gary

Gary, I just had a thunk, you didn't use paper labels on your discs
did you?

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In message , William Skaggs
writes
"Gary" wrote in message
...
I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. before it is too late.

Gary

The best back up for home recorded DVD's is the original tape. The only
problem with that is years down the road, you will have a hard time finding
a working machine to play them on.

I will take one exception to your comments though. The video quality on
DVD's does not get "fuzzy" over time like a tape might do.
He didn't mean that or at least that's not how I read it, I read it as
they weren't playable in some machines, I.E. fussy over which machine
they would play in.
They can refuse
to play, or skip and freeze, or even get pixilated, but not fuzzy.

-Bill



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