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> They’re not too expensive, the writers are available, they’ll last, and they could be reverse engineered if discovered in the future. IIRC, the writers for M
by Seenso 7y ago
> They’re not too expensive, the writers are available, they’ll last, and they could be reverse engineered if discovered in the future.
IIRC, the writers for M-DISCs are special, but the reader can be any DVD or Blu-ray drive.
Honestly, I think the biggest consideration for digital archival media isn't so much the longevity of the media, but the future availability of equipment to read it.
That's one of the biggest benefits of paper, IMHO. Besides being very well-understood material, nearly everyone is born with the necessary reading equipment and the decoding software is very common.
- reificator 7y ago> the decoding software is very common. [Citation needed]
- pmiller2 7y agoYou want a citation for the claim that many people are literate and/or can visually process images?
- aetherspawn 7y agoIt’s a joke. Because some people can’t read. Har har har :)
- a1369209993 7y ago> [Citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy There you go.