24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔

Aren't read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?

Not that old, this was more of a recap archive (CDs to DVDs). Hint: There is Monochrome Factor's first episode. No idea why I didn't wait for it to be finished first though.

Unless you use them only once, probably yes.

Heh, thanks! :)

I uh... Have several of those legit, after watching them other ways

Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that's when I was watching them.

Lain. Nice.

Yup, it's full of late 90's and 2000's anime.

I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.

No worries, I had many kind of CD-specific pens back then.

Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.

I had a binder full of video CD's because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.

And then there were four disks Stephen King films.

Fansubs?

Of course!

Lain. I want to see it again to not understand it again.

I love that old stuff. Nice!

Those DVD’s look fly.

And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(

The fabled write-only system

DVDs didn't have that issue, fortunately.

In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it's mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there's a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.

Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.

I like me stone tablets.

Yeah, those were the days!

Don't say things like that, I haven't checked them for a long time. :(

will check them after moving out phase though.

I don't think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.

You're looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you're done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It's easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you're like, wow, do you remember when... And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don't be like that. Don't be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.

BECAUSE YOU SNIFFED THEM! ADMIT IT!

...we all did it.

If it makes it more illegal I'm all for it. :)

I knew they don't have a long lifespan but didn't know it would be that short. I guess I'll see how they're holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.

Hey, who told you that?

Ok, now listen to this gif

Only write. No read!

I think out of those I only watched planetes, or I just don't remember. Even planetes all I remember is people born on the moon being big. And shiritori in space.

Yeah don't make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think "ah, whatever, it's all online now anyway", because before you know it, no it ain't, and you just lost your last copy to mites.

2006ish?

And to think Nana manga still haven’t returned from hiatus after all this time……

12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.

Sic. This made my day.

Also, early 2000's. :)

DVD sucks, its propertiary and bloated af. Decrypt that sh!t and backup to your HDD.

https://decss.zoy.org/decss.c

DVDs? Cant be that old.

Because of this, some people have termed our current era as the digital dark ages. All of our digitally stored information has an extremely short lifespan and it will be hard for future generations to recover anything from media written today. Right now, the only way to ensure that data continues into the future is to make frequent backups on new media.

Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!

I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago.. good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows

Planetes and Cowboy bebop, the best animes ever made

Exactly. Like 1997 on, but fuck I was 3 when it came out. But they became popular around 2002 according to some variety article, and surpassed vhs in 2003. Wild the players were $800 when they first came out.

Good old Lain, I should rewatch that.

You have very pretty handwriting.

DVD+R or RW was merely a research project in the late 90s - having those on the shelve is more like 2001-2003