Heard this all before, when cd's first came out marketing told us they would last a 100 years. Few years ago we were told that you should make two copies of your loving porn you want to keep, and make copies every 4 yrs. Seems quality went for a shit and oxygen between the layers would start to deteriorate the material used for etching. Well if these disks last for even 500 years at $39 bucks a pop, I can live with that.

You poor people still live behind the moon.

Who in the hell would be using DVD's for more than 20 years? DVD is a quickly dying breed and these geniuses make one that lasts 1000 years, epic fail.

I don't understand why they didn't use all that talent to make an 18 inch data cassette reel that lasts 1000 years, it would sell just as good.

E-P-I-C F-A-I-L

I only read the article once & it clearly states that,"the company 'thinks' they will last a thousand years".
The article as quoted by 'blind' Ed doesn't say," the company 'knows' they will last a thousand years".
Time to collect your pension Ed.

Aren't we supposed to have crystals that hold 900 million yottabytes already?

Making yet another ignorant comment : -1
Owning up to it : +10
Asking for your comments to stay so you can be eternally reminded of your stupidity : priceless

That is one splendid demonstration of virtual moral rectitude, and rarely seen at that. Congratulations !

"we want to ask, how do they know this for certain unless they made one in 1009?"

Uh, this isn't rocket science. You store some at elevated temperatures until they fail, fit an exponential curve, and then extrapolate to the failure rate at room temperature.

If you really want ordinary DVDs to last, nitrogen purge and put them in a freezer.

What's the benefit to companies to make this for customers? They LIKE it when your discs go bad and you have to buy a new one.

Few Minhs ago, Water Was discovered On Moon. Here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091113/ts_afp/sciencespaceusmoon

SHEK'EN or Stirrups?

BENDER Bee first to SET Up Table shurely....

drashek

for these things to start jamming up landfills for the next 1000 years..

The only technology proven to last for thousands of years.

@ludite
What future is there if present members of society can't be bothered with uppercasing and apostrophes? Will anyone still be able to read after the next hundred years?

Humour: does not compute! does not compute!

reactions are a typical consumerism BS, if i dont need it or is too expensive to store my kids pictures or my porn collection then its a worthless tech?

Think bigger than yourselves, think libraries, think national, regional even city archives. We dont use magnetic tapes any more in homes, but those institutions still have such records as well as magnetic tape readers to read them and there is a niche industry serving that. A durable digital optical media is a GOOD tech even if its not practical in home.

Ed, sincere apologies. You didn't make that mistake, having re-read the article. Don't bother deleting my comment, let it stand and I will take the embarrassment as punishment.

Aye, VP, and I doubt L'Inq hacks want all their feral apostrophes exposed to an intelligent race, either.

DISKS (or discs), ferchrissakes! It's a plural not a bloody possessive, nor is this shit hard.

I dont want tony robinson the twelth digging up my pr0n collection to show the world