You’re looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you’re done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It’s easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you’re like, wow, do you remember when… And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don’t be like that. Don’t be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.
I knew they don’t have a long lifespan but didn’t know it would be that short. I guess I’ll see how they’re holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.
Yeah don’t make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think “ah, whatever, it’s all online now anyway”, because before you know it, no it ain’t, and you just lost your last copy to mites.
I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago… good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows
And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(
Don’t say things like that, I haven’t checked them for a long time. :(
will check them after moving out phase though.
You’re looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you’re done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It’s easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you’re like, wow, do you remember when… And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don’t be like that. Don’t be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.
I knew they don’t have a long lifespan but didn’t know it would be that short. I guess I’ll see how they’re holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.
Yeah don’t make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think “ah, whatever, it’s all online now anyway”, because before you know it, no it ain’t, and you just lost your last copy to mites.
A lot of it ALREADY isn’t.
I hope I can recover them.
Hold up there little buddies, just a little more.
I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago… good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows
Better encodes aren’t necessarily better
Fingers crossed. I hope I can recover some.