How long with DVDs last?
• A: It’s not really known how long DVDs will last, but if you are careful with storing them it should be long enough that you can consider it to be a very long time indeed. I use top quality (expensive) DVDs, not the cheap ones I know some of my competitors use. Furthermore, the great thing about DVD is that you can easily copy them using a computer with no loss of quality. I don’t use any encryption on the DVDs I supply, so software such as Nero (PC) or Toast (Mac) can easily make exact duplicates. If you want to be very cautious, you could make copies of the DVDs I supply, in about 5-10 years from now, and then keep making replacements every 5-10 years. Alternatively, you can use Nero etc. to make an image files of the DVDs (the file type will be .iso for example) and then readily make up extra copies from these images at any time in the future. There’s an interesting item on BBC news about this subject. The most important thing anyway is to look after your DVDs, don’t scratch them
