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dmcfan619 on 16 March 2008

I have really important information saved to a DVD. Songs, documents, passsowrds, videos, etc.....

1> With technolgy growning and changing will future PC's and notebooks allow me to access the information stored on a DVD?

2> Or will their be a transfer cable that allows you to transfer data? Eg: PS2 saved files on memory card transfered to the PS3.

For question 2 im not asking if there is or how to use a PS2 transfer cable to PS3. I was just using that as an example.


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tmbh on 16 March 2008

1) Optical drives (DVD, CD, Blu-Ray) are likely to be around for a long time. If newer drives come out they are likely to be backwards compatible due to the popularity of the medium. If you have stuff backed up on CD/DVD I would not worry about it just make sure the discs are good quality and there are stored safely.

2) I'm sure if a new standard wipes out optical drives there will be plenty of ways to recover or transfer data.



ihira on 16 March 2008

CDs,DVDs will always be with PCs.
Look at today, you can still access your 3.5in floppy disks. All you need is the proper drive to read it.

Its really easy to make back ups today.
CDs, DVD, Blu-ray(in a few years maybe) Flash Drives, external HDDs...



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akuma587 on 16 March 2008

The royalties off of CD drives and DVD drives are already pretty low, so I expect them to incorporated into all future Blu-ray drives. I don't think you have anything to worry about except your DVD getting scratched.



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BottledSpringWater on 16 March 2008

For number 2,
The easiest way to transfer large amounts of data is to back up all your data onto an external hard drive.
Then, unload everything in that harddrive to the future pc.



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TheRealMafoo on 16 March 2008

One day it might be hard to get the data back, but I suspect that won't happen for at least 50-60 years. At that time, if you really want the information, I am sure there will be services that will retrieve it for you.

I would worry about the DVD disks themselves before I worried about loosing the ability to read them.



Strategyking92 on 17 March 2008

well, if you can convert a cassette songs to mp3 format, why can't you re-record DVD's? and you don't have to worry for a while anyway.



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BenKenobi88 on 17 March 2008

My friend has a USB turntable.  You could get almost any audio or optical media onto a new PC with the right hardware.  If you have important data that you'll need in 30 years, when DVD is long obsolete, you'll still be able to buy a DVD drive on eBay or something similar, and hell, you could hook up a PC rig equivalent to a good rig today. It'll be a rock and chisel in 30 years, but you could use that PC rig to access your data, and then somehow get that data onto a newer PC.



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