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Mike Rivers
 
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Default Best medium for archiving video


In article writes:

I'm assuming DVD is not recommended for archival purposes...


It depends on how you define "archive." If it's to put it away for 50
years, nobody knows about DVD's ability to support that yet. If it's
to get it on to a secondary medium which might be more playable than
the primary medium when the next potentially great archive thing comes
along, then DVD is probably fine. But don't throw away your original
video tapes. Even if YOU can't play them any more, maybe somebody will
be able to in another 100 years, assuming there's something worth
playing on them.


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