Digital BW, The Print

The degredation of CD/DVD media has been known for a while. There are 
archival quality gold reflective layer CDs and DVDs that you can use. 
According to manufacturers, they will last up to 200 years. 

The life span of regular CDs and DVDs (like you buy cheap at Staples) 
are much less -- I've heard 50 years on the high end, but down to 5-
10 years on the low. 

The only thing is, in 75-100 years will there be the hardware around 
to read these disks, or will it be like Beta video tapes and 5 inch 
floppies. 

Best, David



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard 
Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:

> Good thing it wasn't written on a CD-R.
> 
> So silver negatives are a good thing to have. 
> 
> Food for thought,
> Richard
>