[mythtv-users] Anyone archiving to Blu-Ray Disks?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jul 8 23:44:57 UTC 2010


On Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:56:43 pm f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:07:50 -0600
>     > From: Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>
>     > 
>     > Do you happen to recall the title of that program? I'd love to see
>     > it.
> 
> He is very likely talking about Modern Marvels (on the History Channel),
> which aired a show called "The Real National Treasure" on June 10, 2010.
> About 55% of the way through the show, they talked about CD accelerated
> lifetime testing, and commented that even disks from the same vendors
> displayed different characteristics as the formulations were changed.
> They also commented that nitrocellulose coatings, used prior to 1994,
> were more prone to data loss, but that there are still no guarantees.
> 

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. I'm familiar with the series.

Nitrocellulose, isn't that what I use to propel my rifle bullets?. Wasn't it also what the "exploding" billiard balls were 
made of?

Sounds like you could get some real "accelerated aging" with that stuff.



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