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? asked in Consumer ElectronicsTiVO & DVRs · 7 years ago

How many dvds would it take to record. a life of 50 years?

Of course using. compression.

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  • PoohBearPenguin
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    7 years ago
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    A standard DVD holds about 3 hours of video.

    50 years is approximately 438,000 hours.

    So, at standard DVD quality you're talking ~173,000 DVDs.

    If you're talking about using something like DIVX which compresses a 90 minute movie into about 1GB of space, then you could fit almost 7.5 hours onto a single DVD, meaning you would now only need about 58,400 DVDs.

  • ?
    7 years ago

    A lot....like ten.

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