A DVD that last 1,000 years
Startup Cranberry LLC this week announced its DVD product, a disc made of synthetic stone that can last for 1,000 years.
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49 Responses
12.4.2009
Wall-E would really appreciate this. Thanks!
12.4.2009
Laugh as you will, media decay is a serious problem. There is a huge amount of stuff on DVD’s that is already junk – probably some of YOUR stuff. The media also looks to be write-once, which is great for medical, legal, and financial uses.The DVD format is still an issue, but a lot easier to deal with then data rot.
12.4.2009
More trash in the land fill that will never decompose.
12.4.2009
DVDs aren’t going to even last 50 more years, why make one that lasts longer?
12.4.2009
Forget movies, think historical records.in a few hundreds years, there will be huge gaps of knowledge about this era, because everything that is important is being written to media that will decay in 50 years.This is the sort of thing that you do for researchers in the year 3,000
12.4.2009
Do they warranty it if it only lasts 999.99 years?
12.4.2009
Really? No one here can see the forest for the trees cuz you’re all wigged out about the 1000 year claim?If you are keeping valuable files on anything right now (except for paper maybe) it’s fairly certain that within only a couple years you will lose the ability to read it. This includes so-called archive quality DVDs. The value in this product is not in its century life expectancy. They even poo poo that on their site. The value is in that it is the first permanent digital storage medium since the invention of digital files. And it’s even affordable for the average Joe to use for their family photos and such.Digged!
12.4.2009
NEWFLASH: DVD and BluRay ARE digital.
12.4.2009
That will ruin the movie industry. Let’s ban it immediately!
12.4.2009
Yes, but only after you’ve given them the paper receipt.
12.4.2009
Indeed: I have 5 year old DVDs that are already coasters. My own fault really; I’ve had the hard drive space for that data for two years and I let it sit on cheap DVDs anyway until it was too late. I really expected them to go 10 under good conditions, as most of them no doubt would.
12.4.2009
Yaba Daba Doo! The Flintstones can use them too!
12.4.2009
No, Hard Drives only last an average of 10 years.
12.4.2009
Digital is volatile data, everything we have done in the modern age can be lost in a single generation. we have no long term data storage solution beyond carving words in to stone walls
12.4.2009
Got it, it was "The Batman", S4E7, "Artifacts".
12.4.2009
Oh, cool. That’s longer than my dvd player will last.
12.4.2009
Taking a page out of the cavemen’s book.
12.4.2009
You’re right. You store your files on whatever is available now. Then when something better comes along, you transfer everything over to that… moving forward.For instance… let’s say you had a bunch of files burned onto CDs. When DVD burners came out, you moved everything over to DVDs. You didn’t, however, copy those files to a *better* CD. So, it’s stupid to copy everything over to a different version of the same ol’ thing… however bold their claims may be.
12.4.2009
All we need now is a player that lasts that long too. And a monitor to hook to that player in case monitors change in the future. And electric plugs that last if future has different plugs. And some batteries to power this juggernaut. And instructions on how to use all this "ancient" things on a paper………..oh wait…
12.4.2009
prove it..
12.4.2009
Yeah folks will have to replace there Blu-Ray collection now with the StoneRay DVD collection.
12.4.2009
Good luck finding drivers for a DVD-ROM in 3000 years; I have trouble finding CD-ROM drivers for OS/2 Warp.
12.4.2009
Caveman Returns?
12.4.2009
This is going to be great for companies (yes, I know they won’t need the data for 1k years, but it does save them from having to worry about things) and historical records (no more saying a book can outlast digital data easily)
12.4.2009
You high?I think there will be too much information to process, not less of it. unless ofcourse we are hit by some asteroid or WW3.
12.4.2009
Wasn’t there a animated Batman episode where they discovered the Batcave many years in the future and the data from the Bat computer was written on the walls? What was the name of that episode?
12.4.2009
OK I have to do a test now, My very first DVD, Soldier, Kurt Russel, Warner brothers 1998 to see if it’s still there. Yep, still there.
12.4.2009
Who is going to validate this claim??
12.4.2009
First titles…. Any movie by Oliver Stone, Rock Hudson’s complete collection, Hanna Barberra’s Special Edition: The Flintstone collection, Complete episodes of 30 Rock, Armageddon, (That other movie with Morgan Freeman as the president), Coal Miner’s daughter…..I’ll shut up now.
12.4.2009
Actually this will reduce landfill volume since it eliminates the need to replace all the DVDs in an archive every 2 to 5 years to protect important files from decay. Not to mention all the defective-right-out-of-the-box DVDs tossed before and after burning.
12.4.2009
I am sure the MPAA will try.Resales of scratched DVDs drives their profits and the reason Bluray was chosen over HD-DVD..
12.4.2009
Most video tapes will be destroyed in the second coming of Jesus in 2443.
12.4.2009
I would say that a world war occurring in the next 1,000 years is a virtual certainty.
12.4.2009
Really? Oh thanks! haha
12.4.2009
Mass produced (i.e. you didn’t burn it) CDs and DVDs are made using glass mastering and are built entirely different from CDRs and DVDRs (i.e. ones you burn). That’s why your old movies and music CDs should still work great. So by evaluating the health of your movie DVD with what Cranberry is offering, you’re trying to compare an apple to an orange. They’re two entirely different things.
12.4.2009
duh.Store the drivers on these super dvd’s
12.4.2009
optical disc storage will be gone in another 5 years, you’d have to be an idiot to buy into this. $35 a disc? Lol ***** you. portable Flash Memory and HD’s are the way of the future for movies, music, and all other types of multimedia. I wouldn’t even advise investing in Blu-rays to be honest. After that it’s all going to go to the internet. You’ll rent an HD movie and stream it in real time, or you’ll just own a copy on one of many flash memory drives or harddrives.Forget DVD, Forget Blu-Ray… it’s not like Records vs. CDs. records are analog, they have a warmth that people like. Blu-Ray is digital, DVD is Digital, the movie on your HD is digital. As long as it’s encoded with the same methods, it’s the exact same *****.
12.4.2009
Kinda dumb, because I can guarantee that people in the year 3009 will see DVD players the same way we see the tools of the year 1009. Antiquated.
12.4.2009
finally, we have something comparable to clay tablets. catching up with the sumerians. /snow crash reference
12.4.2009
These DiamondiumDiscs are no match for my patented DiamondiliumDiscs!
12.4.2009
If only Hitler had used synthetic stone.
12.4.2009
and with that, draconian DRM for anyone who pays for a legal copy.
12.4.2009
I would’ve thought a biodegradable DVD would be more lucrative today’s wanna-look-green corporations, and by that I mean biodegrade under the right conditions, not in your DVD rack.
12.4.2009
Its called storing it on a computer
12.4.2009
Several can also be glued together and used as a ninja throwing disc.
12.4.2009
AOL and Frisbee fans must have had a field day at this news!
12.4.2009
gen4us, your thoughts rock me.
12.4.2009
Johnny Mnemonic… so that future generations can learn of the subtle acting capacity of Keanu Reeves.
12.4.2009
I’m guessing all Porn, movies, music, video, data, doc, and hidden easter eggs.