<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Chris, <div><br></div><div>"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...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px"><font color="#003300" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></p><font face="garamond, serif"></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#274e13" size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#274e13" size="2"></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#274e13" size="2"></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#274e13" size="2"></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#274e13" size="2"></font><div><font face="garamond, serif"><div style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-size:small"><div><b>Regards,</b></div></div><div style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-size:small"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><b>Tom Adams, Director/Owner</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><b><a href="http://www.ReelifeProductions.com" target="_blank">Reelife Documentary Productions</a> • </b></font><a href="http://folktography.zenfolio.com" target="_blank"><b>Folktography by Tom</b></a></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><i><font face="garamond, serif" size="2" color="#660000">• Cool Media Production...Not Boring or Dumb </font></i></div><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0);font-style:italic">• Media that Educates, Entertains & Enlightens... since 1996</span><br></div></font><div><font size="2" color="#660000"><font face="garamond, serif"><i>(413) 575-9707</i></font><i><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><font face="garamond, serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"> • Williamsburg, MA</div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:18 PM Chris Hoogendyk <<a href="mailto:hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu">hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm open to suggestions.<br>
<br>
I want something that I can put an informative label on the media and have it in a book like case <br>
that I can design a cover for. It should both be able to sit on a book shelf in a library and be <br>
uploaded to their digital archives. It should also be relatively "universally" accessible.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 5/6/19 3:38 PM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote:<br>
> Chris, I are you committed to using DVDs? If not, I would highly recommend NOT using them. They <br>
> are a faulty medium and not good for archiving either. Be glad to discuss further...<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> *Regards,*<br>
> *<br>
> *<br>
> *Tom Adams, Director/Owner*<br>
> *Reelife Documentary Productions <<a href="http://www.ReelifeProductions.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ReelifeProductions.com</a>> • **Folktography by Tom* <br>
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> /• Cool Media Production...Not Boring or Dumb /<br>
> • Media that Educates, Entertains & Enlightens... since 1996<br>
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> /<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:24 PM Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss <br>
> <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Does anyone have knowledge or experience about DVD drives with respect to writing lots of DVDs<br>
> without burning out?<br>
><br>
> I've been producing DVDs of historical primary source material (see, e.g.,<br>
> <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729</a>) on my<br>
> grandfather (see<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham</a>). In March, I was about to head out to<br>
> China for<br>
> a three week trip, and I was pulling an all nighter producing DVDs of my latest project with<br>
> 23 of<br>
> his diaries. At 6am on the morning that I was leaving, my DVD drive took the usual length of<br>
> time to<br>
> burn a DVD (seems like forever), then it started the verification scan, took a long time and<br>
> summarily spit out the DVD, saying it was unable to verify it. I went through 4 DVDs with the<br>
> same<br>
> result. This was from a stack of 100 good quality Sony DVDs that I had been pulling from for<br>
> quite a<br>
> while with no problems.<br>
><br>
> At the point that the drive failed, I had been burning DVDs non-stop for well over 12 hours. All<br>
> told on this round going back a couple of days, I had burned something like 50-60 DVDs.<br>
> Previously,<br>
> I had used the drive to burn other DVDs.<br>
><br>
> This is not the first time I have had this experience. Maybe the third. (i.e. bought a new<br>
> drive and<br>
> then had it burn out.)<br>
><br>
> I'm using an iMac which I think is about 2014, running MacOS Mojave, with an Apple USB Superdrive.<br>
><br>
> Googling reviews of drives is pretty useless. They basically tell you they bought the drive, it<br>
> hooked up without any trouble, it worked great, and it is built solidly; or something like that.<br>
> They don't give long term wear and reliability. They don't say anything about non-stop burning<br>
> sessions; just normal easy use with a brand new device. I asked this question of a "genius" at<br>
> the<br>
> Apple Store this weekend, and he didn't really have an answer. He suggested that perhaps I should<br>
> buy a less expensive drive, because the internals would be the same. He said Sony made some<br>
> pretty<br>
> good drives, they just didn't have the aluminum case, etc. that the Apple drive has, but would be<br>
> half or less the cost. It would be great to have a Consumer Reports "mean time to failure under<br>
> continuous burning" and whether there are any drives with different, more durable, internals.<br>
><br>
><br>
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> Erdös 4<br>
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