[Coco] Roger Taylors Coco DVD

[Manny]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2007, Kevin Diggs wrote:
>> Hex Star wrote:
>>> How will we know when it's ready for purchase? As I've said before and
>>> will say again, if Roger  does not wish for the dvd package to be shared
>>> via internet download then I will not put the dvd pack on my server and
>>> instead will use it for my own personal hobby interests as well as make a
>>> backup image of the dvd package on a internal offline backup harddrive. At
>>> no time will the dvd ever be shared online if that is Roger's wish.
>>>
>>> --
>> 	Can someone explain to me why you need to "make a backup image of the
>> dvd package on a internal offline backup harddrive"? Isn't a DVD going
>> to be far more reliable than some hard drive? Hard drive failures? User
>> errors (i.e. rm -f)?
> 
> It depends on the dvd Kevin.  dvd+r's have an estimated life of 70 years, 
> dvd-r's as little as 18 months, so if you want archival storage, you put it 
> on dvd+r's.

I would have to assume it's not that far off of CDs, in that you have to 
get the right kind of DVD (what the 1's and 0's are burned in to. Was it 
called ink? I'll call it that. ;) ) ink for it to last longer than 6 
months, too. I remember when it was brought out that the difference in 
ink on CD made the real difference between it lasting > 6 months. Some 
didn't even last that, even if they were 'name brand'.

If this doesn't make sense, wait until I wake up, even if it is 5pm 
here... :)

-M.