500gb for $150 is a little bit pricy for me tbh. I don’t think I’d ever need something quite so long lasting and will we even watch or interact with media the same way in like 40 years? Movies and screens may get phased out for holo or something no ones even dreamed of yet.
If the burner is cheap enough, or you can borrow one, backing up family photos in a way that will be viewable in hundreds of years time would be worth it to me.
I would not even be confident that the disc would be readable in 50 years’ time except by certain archivists or hobbyists.
There are so many hours of music people wrote on Amigas or Atari STs that are just floating around out there on floppy discs that are still readable, but only by a very small number of people, so they will never be heard again, and it’s been only 30 years.
Another example- right now I have family movies my parents took back in the 60s on Super-8 films. Super-8 isn’t exactly impossible to play, but why would I get a Super-8 projector and a screen just to watch those even though they’re watchable? That would be both cost- and space-prohibitive. Thankfully, I had them digitized a long time ago.
Not without a disk drive that runs scrambled data decoding (BD+) in a VM on top of decryption (AACS), according to the (reverse engineered) DRM spec of bluray.
I have like 3 pictures I actually care about anymore I’d be more than willing to delete the rest. My parents have always taken like at least a dozen pictures every time we “do something” and I always have to ask… Why drop everything you are doing for a picture that you will, in all likelihood, never look at again. I’d much rather just enjoy the moment tbh
lol I don’t think you’re the target demographic if you can’t imagine any scenario of this having a good purpose to exist. It’s apparently rated by the Department of Defense, definitely has some applications people are interested in. Hell, you could recoup costs on harddrive failures alone over your child’s lifetime, just need a reader. Would be a pretty neat present to give someone as well filled like a photo album with personal media/ favorite games/ music/ whatever you want backed up for your kids. People spend a lot of money on multiple backup options so this is just another ace in your deck along with other safeguards.
True, I’m no data hoarder. Just seems like it’s a very small niche that this fits into. Never had a hard drive fail on me, but I’ll give it a couple more decades lol
500gb for $150 is a little bit pricy for me tbh. I don’t think I’d ever need something quite so long lasting and will we even watch or interact with media the same way in like 40 years? Movies and screens may get phased out for holo or something no ones even dreamed of yet.
Not sure where you’re from, but that website link is Australian and $150 AUD is about $94 USD at the moment.
If the burner is cheap enough, or you can borrow one, backing up family photos in a way that will be viewable in hundreds of years time would be worth it to me.
I would not even be confident that the disc would be readable in 50 years’ time except by certain archivists or hobbyists.
There are so many hours of music people wrote on Amigas or Atari STs that are just floating around out there on floppy discs that are still readable, but only by a very small number of people, so they will never be heard again, and it’s been only 30 years.
Another example- right now I have family movies my parents took back in the 60s on Super-8 films. Super-8 isn’t exactly impossible to play, but why would I get a Super-8 projector and a screen just to watch those even though they’re watchable? That would be both cost- and space-prohibitive. Thankfully, I had them digitized a long time ago.
Not without a disk drive that runs scrambled data decoding (BD+) in a VM on top of decryption (AACS), according to the (reverse engineered) DRM spec of bluray.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray
Sorry, but, if nothing else, the DRM makes Bluray and DVD as long-term archive unsuitable.
If you’re encrypting and scrambling your own personal data and not properly saving the keys, that L is on you dog.
None of that is relevant to a self burned M/Archive BD
They don’t hold that long.
Got any evidence for that claim?
Yeah, physical evidence.
So basically no,you haven’t.
I have like 3 pictures I actually care about anymore I’d be more than willing to delete the rest. My parents have always taken like at least a dozen pictures every time we “do something” and I always have to ask… Why drop everything you are doing for a picture that you will, in all likelihood, never look at again. I’d much rather just enjoy the moment tbh
lol I don’t think you’re the target demographic if you can’t imagine any scenario of this having a good purpose to exist. It’s apparently rated by the Department of Defense, definitely has some applications people are interested in. Hell, you could recoup costs on harddrive failures alone over your child’s lifetime, just need a reader. Would be a pretty neat present to give someone as well filled like a photo album with personal media/ favorite games/ music/ whatever you want backed up for your kids. People spend a lot of money on multiple backup options so this is just another ace in your deck along with other safeguards.
True, I’m no data hoarder. Just seems like it’s a very small niche that this fits into. Never had a hard drive fail on me, but I’ll give it a couple more decades lol