I laugh at articles like the one you quote from above. I've been in the television and media duplication business for nearly 20 years. I've seen a wide variety of video and audio formats come and go. I record all my CD-Rs on a commercial Marantz or Denon CD recorder at 1x / real time speed. I have used various brands of blank CD disks over the years, but mostly have used Maxell and Tayo Yuden commercial CD-Rs, which I buy by the hundreds.
I usually keep copies of CDs I like in my cars, but rarely play original discs in them. Too much bumping around for my tastes. I have both CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that play every bit as good as the day I recorded them. Maybe it's because I use commercial CD and DVD recorders, not cheap computer drives to record my stuff. The simple fact that most people record discs at speeds higher than normal playback speed often leads to digital errors in the recordings, not to mention that most of the cheapie CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that most people buy are pure CRAP - often Q.C. rejects from the commercial manufacturing lines. (Bet you didn't know that did you - but it's TRUE!)
NEVER - EVER buy those "special" no-name discs from places like Fry's or Office Depot. They are all PURE CRAP.
As for tape being a better medium for storage, maybe that IBM guy should come and visit my studios some time. I would love to show him old 3/4", VHS, and Betamax tapes that are not only deteriorating after less than 20 years, but that exhibit traits such as "print thru" of adjacent scenes on video, audio dropouts, particle shedding and lots more I bet he's never seen.
I usually keep copies of CDs I like in my cars, but rarely play original discs in them. Too much bumping around for my tastes. I have both CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that play every bit as good as the day I recorded them. Maybe it's because I use commercial CD and DVD recorders, not cheap computer drives to record my stuff. The simple fact that most people record discs at speeds higher than normal playback speed often leads to digital errors in the recordings, not to mention that most of the cheapie CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that most people buy are pure CRAP - often Q.C. rejects from the commercial manufacturing lines. (Bet you didn't know that did you - but it's TRUE!)
NEVER - EVER buy those "special" no-name discs from places like Fry's or Office Depot. They are all PURE CRAP.
As for tape being a better medium for storage, maybe that IBM guy should come and visit my studios some time. I would love to show him old 3/4", VHS, and Betamax tapes that are not only deteriorating after less than 20 years, but that exhibit traits such as "print thru" of adjacent scenes on video, audio dropouts, particle shedding and lots more I bet he's never seen.