[MacDV] Re: Burn Ad Infinitum or For Nuttin'

[Colin McDonald]

On Friday, Apr 16, 2004, at 20:02 Europe/London, Erica Sadun wrote:
> 2. DVDRs are not archival physically. Recordable DVD media
> include organic inks and laminated plastics that have been shown
> to fail at unacceptably high rates.
>
> 3. Recordable DVDs do not play back in all players. In current
> machines, you can expect a 5-10% fail rate. In older machines,
> the fail rate is much higher.
>
> 4. The high data rate used with Recordable DVDs (It's the
> software's fault generally, not the media) makes them unsuitable
> for playback in many computers, particularly those more than
> a couple of years old.

Hence the name, DVD - not as you might think anything to do with 
'Digital' or 'Versatile'; more to do with 'Deo Volente'.
:-)

Colin McDonald