Finally an archiving option worthy of my porn collection.

homerjay

Ha... kind of like having our stuff videotaped using VHS and saved in case we needed for insurance purposes. We would have gladly transferred the contents to DVD except we no longer have any working VCRs :-)

RainyDayInterns

@BLU-RAY DISCS:

Congrats! You won the war! Now quit yer damn celebrating, and start reproducing yourselves like bunnies, and lowering your price like Peeps.

frigg

@Flugenhiber:" have an anti-scratch coating"......really?those fluids cant be of harm if they are scratch proof.

techcolllide

Call me when a blue ray burner equals the same price as todays dvd burners...to me this is useless when theres external hdds out there that are very mobile and holds way more than these and SDHD flash drives that are way down in price and big in storage...

bl1nk2much

@techcolllide: it says protection against uv rays - but I don't see anything about bodily fluids... something that precious, i wouldn't take the chance.

Flugenhiber

really important stuff .............BANGBROS!

techcolllide

So I assume you will get your money back if it doesn't last 200 years?

Kobe_No_Means_No

Now what am I going to do with my gold-plated wax cylinders? Obsolete after only 100 years?

DaveExile

"Now, to find a Blu-ray player that'll last two centuries..." Great point, i guess no one thought of that... except me, i will back up my blu ray player on one of those disks.

HawkSkater0

...Delkin?

This is a joke right?

Do you have to play those Delkin discs on your Pamasonic Blu-ray player? Or is Magnetbox coming out with one?

kaneshadow

i think announcements like this should be ignored in the future for two reasons. First, these assertions are unprovable without waiting 200 years and are therefore irrelevant. Second, media technology has been changing with increasing rapidity. Maybe 15 years after the CD, we have gone through the laserdisc, the dvd, and now we are on to blu-ray and HD DVD. So does anyone really care that data can be saved on a soon-to-be-obsolete technology? see how many people are looking for archival quality DVD-R's and CD-R's and you will have your answer.

razorweb

200 years from now, who'll know the difference?

gravitation

In 200 years nobody will have the slightest idea what Blu-Ray is, much less have a device that can read one or the necessary drivers to get their OS to recognize the data on one.

Jesse in Japan

@Kobe_No_Means_No:

Only if you're the original purchaser.

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen

Finally, The Highlander can finally avoid paying for the same movies over and over and over and over again.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

A dollar a gigabyte? Ill stick with my USB SATA dock and raw off-line SATA drives for now, thx.

stretta

@stretta: 10pk for $25, so that's 10 cents per gb, not a buck...right?

dave the wet sprocket

When I was a Fed, we used archival grade discs to hold electronic evidence for cases. Many times the time between the evidence being gathered and the case getting to trial was long enough for the disc to degrade. Now that HDS has gotten so cheap, I can only imagine that they store case data on geographically separated disc arrays. Back in the day, archival discs were the way to go.

Elvisisdead

@dave the wet sprocket: um, wrong. i should've read a little closer.

dave the wet sprocket

who burns anything anymore? External hard disks anyone?

shenanigans

Delkins makes a line of inkjet printable archival gold DVD-Rs that I want but the cost is a bit too high.

zed0