Not sure about BD-R reliability, but DVD-R and CD-R disks often deteriorated after several years. The best option is really to keep multiple backups on different hard drives, with at least one of them located off-site.Hard drive fails = lose all movies on it
Disc doesn't fail, only breaks if you are careless with it.
Trying to compare apples to oranges doesn't work here. People backup for a reason and if you don't know why then you missed the boat already.And who exactly backs up his movies onto optical discs? Well you can but I'd go for the hdd. And in order to rip such a protected disc we would need? Exactly, AnyDVD HD or whatever it will be called. I doubt many people are still copying disc nowadays. At least for me the only disc that I've burned for yours are the mp3 discs for my car stereo. Everything else goes straight to my hdd.
Count me in. I like my options open to what I want.Who backs up to discs? Hmm, myself for one and properly a couple thousand others too.
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Exactly some don't think about it til it happens then its oh no the HDD is crashed help me get my movies back. You only break the copy/backup the original is safe in the case and storage-that's what "altae" forgot to remember.Hard drive fails = lose all movies on it
Disc doesn't fail, only breaks if you are careless with it.
I'm still boycotting Blu-ray, so boycotting 4K is not even a question.I'll keep buying physical media as long as it exists although I plan to boycott 4K completely for the foreseeable future.
Hard drive fails = lose all movies on it
Disc doesn't fail, only breaks if you are careless with it.
I'm still boycotting Blu-ray, so boycotting 4K is not even a question.
They can have my personally owned DVDs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Never had an optical disc just go bad on its own, then again, I don't buy cheap crap blanks.
Keep them cool, dry, and dark = no probsNot sure about BD-R reliability, but DVD-R and CD-R disks often deteriorated after several years. The best option is really to keep multiple backups on different hard drives, with at least one of them located off-site.
And don't buy Ritek.
I personally like the quality of DVD, Blu-ray is "information overload" for me. TOO much detail.Why not go all the way and just watch VHS. Lol.
Heh, you can blur the crap out of the HD picture to resemble a DVD.I personally like the quality of DVD, Blu-ray is "information overload" for me. TOO much detail.
"oooh, look that that person's nose hairs! Great definition" BLECH!
Not sure about BD-R reliability, but DVD-R and CD-R disks often deteriorated after several years. The best option is really to keep multiple backups on different hard drives, with at least one of them located off-site.
Both very niche formats though, quite insignificant compared to Blu-ray. It simply did not worth the effort IMHO.I have a nagging thought reading all this about UHD. No one ever broke the encryption of SACDs. The only backups made were on a particular PS3 with particular firmware, while it played back the digital data unencrypted which was backed up in real time. And DVD-Audio used audio watermarks before Cinavia. This was an analog method not a digital one, where the only solution is to use a player that ignores the audio watermark.
I have a nagging thought reading all this about UHD. No one ever broke the encryption of SACDs. The only backups made were on a particular PS3 with particular firmware, while it played back the digital data unencrypted which was backed up in real time. And DVD-Audio used audio watermarks before Cinavia. This was an analog method not a digital one, where the only solution is to use a player that ignores the audio watermark.
IMO, if DVD-A or SACD were anywhere near Blu-ray popularity, they would have been cracked years ago.Not accepting nobody cares as any kind of argument. Never encountered a solution to DVD-A watermarks except to play back in foobar. SACD-R images can be found in abundance online somewhere, all made from PS3s. Sony players deactivated SACD-R playback with a firmware 'upgrade'.