VIDEO MEDIA GUIDES -> Blank Media & Quality FAQ >>>>> How long do discs and tapes last?
Be sure to visit the main guide page located at www.digitalFAQ.com/media Contrary to popular belief, optical media is not new. Optical media was developed and patented in the 1960s, not long after magnetic video tape. As time went on, and with much research and development from companies like Pioneer, Philips and Sony, optical storage became a viable media format in the early 1980s with the release of the CD-ROM. In the past year or so, several fluff articles about “dying media” have been published online and sometimes even repeated in print. These articles are usually little more than opinion pieces and lack perspective on the overall technology of optical media, as well as ignore decades of empirical evidence. None of them (as seen by this author) are backed by formal studies from neutral sources. A lot of them read like scare-tactic Fox News broadcasts, or bedtime stories about the boogeyman. Quite a few fly-by-night dot-com stores have popped up on the Internet too, in the last two
