Was Vhs to dvd-and back again?

[T Molnar]

Different people have told me that dvd or cd's are mediums with a 
maximum of quality play life that is very low.
30 plays ( 10 years or so) and it's toast so to speak.

I have no idea of veracity of such statements.  My music cd's seem fine.

I am wondering what is the best long term storage for digitized things 
like imovie clips/home movie things.

VHS?
DVD?
CD?
other?

Any comments on this from people that know?

On a side note - My wife's uncle just got hired to the tune of $20,000 
to do black and white photo archiving of a government information 
because negatives last forever pretty well.  I laughed because I was 
looking into whether this branch was going to digitize everything.

comments on good long term storage methods?

thanks
tim


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