What's the lifespan of a movie on DVD+RW

[hallesdaddy]

Hi all.

I was just wondering if DVD+RWs have a short lifespan. I backed up a DVD on a DVD+RW a few months ago. After it was completed, it played just as well as the original.

Recently however, I played it and it began to freeze and jump frames. At first I thought maybe my kids had gotten their dirty little hands on it, but it's clean.

Just made me wonder. Any ideas?

HD

[Capmaster]

I found this months ago that addresses media lifespans:

http://www.gcn.com/23_5/news/25166-1.html

Here's a quote from it that might interest you:

Rewritable CDs and DVDs have a shorter life span of about 25 years, so Byers said he does not recommend them for archiving. A rewritable disk’s metal-alloy data layer is less stable than that in write-once disks. And rewritable disks are affected by light, so they also have a limited number of reads—a number that’s still uncertain.

I think in your case the problem is a marginal burn caused by crappy media.

And this really belongs in the Media forum so I'm moving it ...hold on to something .....