[Hidden-tech] durable DVD writer

Mon May 6 20:28:01 UTC 2019

Chris,

"relatively universally accessible"- is the big question... I would suggest
thinking of portable hard drive like you would a dvd ... and put the video
files on the hard drive... you could label them and store it on a shelf.
and then access and connect to whatever playback device that would allow
for viewing, laptop/projector/tv/laptop screen...

*Regards,*

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On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:18 PM Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu>
wrote:

> I'm open to suggestions.
>
> I want something that I can put an informative label on the media and have
> it in a book like case
> that I can design a cover for. It should both be able to sit on a book
> shelf in a library and be
> uploaded to their digital archives. It should also be relatively
> "universally" accessible.
>
>
> On 5/6/19 3:38 PM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote:
> > Chris, I are you committed to using DVDs? If not, I would highly
> recommend NOT using them. They
> > are a faulty medium and not good for archiving either. Be glad to
> discuss further...
> >
> >
> >
> > *Regards,*
> > *
> > *
> > *Tom Adams, Director/Owner*
> > *Reelife Documentary Productions <http://www.ReelifeProductions.com> •
> **Folktography by Tom*
> > <http://folktography.zenfolio.com>
> > /• Cool Media Production...Not Boring or Dumb /
> > • Media that Educates, Entertains & Enlightens... since 1996
> > /(413) 575-9707//
> >  • Williamsburg, MA
> > /
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:24 PM Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss
> > <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net <mailto:
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Does anyone have knowledge or experience about DVD drives with
> respect to writing lots of DVDs
> >     without burning out?
> >
> >     I've been producing DVDs of historical primary source material (see,
> e.g.,
> >
> https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729)
> on my
> >     grandfather (see
> >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham). In March, I
> was about to head out to
> >     China for
> >     a three week trip, and I was pulling an all nighter producing DVDs
> of my latest project with
> >     23 of
> >     his diaries. At 6am on the morning that I was leaving, my DVD drive
> took the usual length of
> >     time to
> >     burn a DVD (seems like forever), then it started the verification
> scan, took a long time and
> >     summarily spit out the DVD, saying it was unable to verify it. I
> went through 4 DVDs with the
> >     same
> >     result. This was from a stack of 100 good quality Sony DVDs that I
> had been pulling from for
> >     quite a
> >     while with no problems.
> >
> >     At the point that the drive failed, I had been burning DVDs non-stop
> for well over 12 hours. All
> >     told on this round going back a couple of days, I had burned
> something like 50-60 DVDs.
> >     Previously,
> >     I had used the drive to burn other DVDs.
> >
> >     This is not the first time I have had this experience. Maybe the
> third. (i.e. bought a new
> >     drive and
> >     then had it burn out.)
> >
> >     I'm using an iMac which I think is about 2014, running MacOS Mojave,
> with an Apple USB Superdrive.
> >
> >     Googling reviews of drives is pretty useless. They basically tell
> you they bought the drive, it
> >     hooked up without any trouble, it worked great, and it is built
> solidly; or something like that.
> >     They don't give long term wear and reliability. They don't say
> anything about non-stop burning
> >     sessions; just normal easy use with a brand new device. I asked this
> question of a "genius" at
> >     the
> >     Apple Store this weekend, and he didn't really have an answer. He
> suggested that perhaps I should
> >     buy a less expensive drive, because the internals would be the same.
> He said Sony made some
> >     pretty
> >     good drives, they just didn't have the aluminum case, etc. that the
> Apple drive has, but would be
> >     half or less the cost. It would be great to have a Consumer Reports
> "mean time to failure under
> >     continuous burning" and whether there are any drives with different,
> more durable, internals.
> >
> >
> >     --
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> >
> >     Chris Hoogendyk
> >
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