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Do home-recorded DVD's really last as long as the manufacturers claim?
Manufacturers guarantee their blank DVD media for upwards of 75 years in some cases. Do home-recorded DVD's really last that long? I'm starting to hear reports of disc failure only one year after recording, particularly for some of the dual-layer discs sold by Memorex and Verbatim. I don't hear much about single-layer discs.
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Big Al Mintaka
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Memorex makes, by far, THE WORST media in the world when it comes to longevity. I used to work in videotape reconditioning, and Maxell and Memorex (which were made by the same company) were consistently un-usable.
If you have high-quality media, they may archive OK if kept away from moisture and sunlight.
Many of the early Philips CD's are now losing their info layers, and many people who archived their rare recordings onto those disks are now having to scramble in order to preserve what they still have.