Do DVDs lose information after some time?
By lenywp
@lenywp (1963)
Australia
December 28, 2006 6:35am CST
Like USB sticks can only hold info for about 10 years, does something similar happen to DVDs?
2 responses
@lilaclady (28206)
• Australia
28 Dec 06
I don't think so leny I was told they hold them forever, someone advised me to tranfer all my video tapes that mean a lot to me to DVD so I will have them forever so I guess they keep whatever stored for as long as you keep the DVD in good order.
@DeepThought (433)
• South Africa
28 Dec 06
DVDs, like CDs can only store information for about 2-5 years, if they are stored properly.
In the case of rewritable CDs/DVDs, they will start getting errors after about 100-200 overwrites.
