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Originally Posted by John Hafer
My first VCR was a Panasonic PV-1500 in 1979. I still have tapes I made back in 1979 and 1980 including the original 1980 NBC '50 Years of Television' special complete with commercials, a NOVA special on the DC-10 from 1980, and 4 hours of recordings from the 1980 Winter Olympics from Lake Placid, with ads. I always made all of my recordings at SP for the best quality.
I recently played these tapes on my current VCR and they all played back perfect, after almost 30 years!!!
So, who wants to bet my DVD recordings I made on my DVD recorder using DVD-R disks will still play 30 years from now. From what I am reading, the film used in the DVD blank disks will fade within several years and will cause digital errors to the extent the disks will not even play.
Kind of ironic in that my original intent of buying a DVD recorder was to archive my non-commercial (home recorded) VHS tapes to DVD. Now I am finding that I need to keep the VHS tapes as archives and use the DVD copies for watching!
John
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I love to find stuff like that; I have some Beta tapes I found from '82 or so. Some of them look as good as live. I've thought about getting a DVD recorder but I really don't trust that they will be permanent. Heck, I've got some paper-backed R2R tapes that must be no newer than 1950? Sound great! (to my tin ear, at least)