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Kodak professional grade discs have 100-year life
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article published on 12 January, 2008
KODAK has introduced its Professional Grade CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that offer a lifespan of up to 100 years, according to the company. The company is targeting photographers, music studios, and other businesses and professionals who want higher quality discs that will safely store their images, videos and data.
"We are introducing these new, professional grade discs for those who can't take ... [ read the full article ]
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12. January 2008 @ 20:50 |
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Ummmmmmmm.
Okay?
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domie
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12. January 2008 @ 21:08 |
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and of course if it doesn't last for 100 years, you can always leave a request in your will to get your great great grandchildren to return it for a refund
they began testing this is 1908 to make sure it has a 100 year life span ? umm right , that's fair enough !
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redux79
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12. January 2008 @ 22:43 |
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Some of these new features sound pretty cool, but really a hundred years? I know a lot of products have a lifetime guarantee but now this one is supposed to continue after I die?
One thing did catch my eye though
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The archival case is made of non-gassing polypropylene
Does this mean that all my jewel cases are slowly releasing gas that could damage my dvd's! wtf!
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12. January 2008 @ 22:45 |
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don't tell the media indutry that, they would have to stop reselling you stuff every 4-8 years :P
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relaxin
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12. January 2008 @ 23:31 |
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one of the dirty secrets in the digital world we live in is that most of the recording media we use presently, 5" discs, sucks when it comes to archiving. not only is the media very sensitive to the environment, heat, humidity, mold (ever seen a cd with mold in it? gross) but the data will also lose integrity and have errors within 5-10 years, and that is assuming you take care enough of it so that the disc doesn't warp, mold, chip, scratch, etc.
vinyl records and paper photos are more likely to last longer than that stack of cd/dvd that people are using to replace them. How funny is that!
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12. January 2008 @ 23:46 |
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This is exactly why the digital age is being called the lost generation. We have little hard copies of anything and formats are constantly changing, let alone the medium they are on.
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13. January 2008 @ 22:40 |
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Claims are claims. i could claim to be God, but id probaly end up in an insane asylume.
discs dont last 100 years, maby if you place them in an enviroment controlled safty deposit box it might, but you would have to place a tv a cable and the device to play it with inside the same area. and hope the RIAA Police and MPAA FBI does not find your great great great great grandson and charge him off illeagle possision of UN DRMed work and shoot him in the back of the head with a laser gun. because the TERmanATER RIAA & MPAA JUdge bot said too.
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14. January 2008 @ 02:46 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
Claims are claims. i could claim to be God, but id probaly end up in an insane asylume.
discs dont last 100 years, maby if you place them in an enviroment controlled safty deposit box it might, but you would have to place a tv a cable and the device to play it with inside the same area. and hope the RIAA Police and MPAA FBI does not find your great great great great grandson and charge him off illeagle possision of UN DRMed work and shoot him in the back of the head with a laser gun. because the TERmanATER RIAA & MPAA JUdge bot said too.
Is it so hard to think they made a disc capable of lasting in a reasonable environment 50+ years?
really its a wonder the indutry itself dose not tackle his issue more sierouresly...the again biodegradable discs by sony shall ensure your data is safe .........for 4 year intervals...... is not so nice they care for the "environment" so......
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26. January 2008 @ 06:06 |
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This is nothing new from kodak in my book.
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26. January 2008 @ 20:05 |
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Personally, i think this is great. I have cds that have degraded. And the data is lost. They are in perfect condition, other than the fact that they have lost data! Half of my sons(9yrs old) baby pictures are gone! Its a joke, really. Digital info should be non degradable. I have since wised up and store important info on redundant hdds, not in a pc. Its been yet another way to make us consumers continuously buy, and rebuy, and rerebuy.
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