alt Hacker NewsI absolutely torrent as a way to discover new content, but I want favorites on a shelf on very long shelf life media where it does not require internet access and is never going to get altered or deleted as streaming services often do, or end up unavailable in the future with no seeders.
You're on a site called Hacker News, and don't know how to burn a video file to DVD?
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dpark • last Tuesday at 11:13 PM
Writable DVD longevity seems to be a bit of a crapshoot. There are stories of people reading 20 year old burned DVDs just fine and others getting errors on discs only a few years old.
If I were worried about longevity, I would not personally rely on a bunch of DVDs I burned.
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I literally burned and sold bootleg software to churches as one of my go to hustles as a kid, and have a blu ray burner handy.
Knowing how, and being willing to do it for piles of titles and make cases that are nice to display and browse in the real world alongside mass produced copies, takes a lot of effort and I have better things to do with my limited time.
As is tracking down very rare titles in blu ray quality. Often easier to just buy the most decent cased copies I can and rip for long term storage.