Quote Originally Posted by samsc
this is not related to catalyst - but is going to affect all of us.

CD- rot, they are going to stop working much sooner than people expect....

so the last 20 years will vanish.

just like the whole history of computing.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05062...ess/163656.asp
This is important!
Paintings,statues or other "real" artwork will be there in the future, maybe our digital art stored on CD/DVD´s will be forgotten earlier than we expect.I have made bacups on this media all the time (as most people) but also have everything on DVCam that I hope are reliable.
I did this because of it was very often that the disc´s seem to be bad from the beginning (I always use HQ media in my studio,I think it is worth the extra buck) but even with that, some disc´s are bad.

Maybe DVCam also will "rot",hopefully not. (I have videocasettes that my children been attacking hard and jump on them for years, but they still work, and you know what a little scratch can do on a CD)