How long do Blu-rays last?

[facepalmmonkey]

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[Johnny Vinyl]

Should be no different than DVD. Actually they'll likely last longer, but how long depends greatly on how well you take care of them (read: avoid getting scratches on them).

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by facepalmmonkey

I take great care of them. If they do not have any scratches, should I expect them to last for atleast a decade?

For sure! I have DVD's from the early days of that format (1995) and they still play fine. Same with CD's. No need to worry !

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by facepalmmonkey

Awesome! I am going to hang on to them

I'd be surprised if they lasted less than 20-30 years

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by wormraper

I'd be surprised if they lasted less than 20-30 years

Agree ~ I have CD's I bought back in the 70's that are all scratched up & still play just fine.

[MaCruz]

I think the real question is.... how long will your BDP last?

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Agree ~ I have CD's I bought back in the 70's that are all scratched up & still play just fine.

CDs became commercially available in 1982\1983.

[Eddie501]

So far Blu Rays have lasted about 8 1/2 years. That's as much as anybody knows at this point in time.

I'd fully expect them to be playable for most of our lifetimes though.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Lemmy Lugosi

CDs became commercially available in 1982\1983.

I do have CDs from the 80s that still work. I remember paying like $15 each and that was early 80's money so it was a lot.

Some of mine are obviously scratched up though. For a while I used to take them places with me.

I expect my Blu Rays to outlast me.

[GreenGaijin]

I wonder how these would show signs of degradation. Like if there would be pixilation or if one day it just didn't play. No doubt these suckers are going to last generations.

[Canada]

I believe if looked after properly optical media can last about 75 to 100 years that's what I heard.

[Anthony P]

like others said, no one really knows, CDs have been around for 30 years and they have not degraded, I don't see why the media (if properly taken care of and well manufactured) will degrade in anyone's life time.

I wonder how these would show signs of degradation. Like if there would be pixilation or if one day it just didn't play.

probably just not play, but if it is only a small loss (like with a scratch) it would appear as an error.

I believe if looked after properly optical media can last about 75 to 100 years that's what I heard.

I think that is for R and RE disks due to the process, but who knows.

[Bluray-or-Pirate]

I'm unsure, but I don't think they last forever.

I was in the middle of converting my old VHS tapes when DVD's came out. I slowly started to port them all over to DVD and suddenly Blu-ray came out.

This made me pause for a moment and stop converting, because I was sort of worried they'd come out with yet again another format. So I waited and now they seem to be trying to push out digital downloads. Which is really not something I really want to get mixed into because I prefer to physically own something and not "virtually".

Any ways.... I noticed that some of my DVD's don't play so well. They don't have any scratches at all and they worked fine originally, but over time I think they degrated. I have no idea as to why.

I do believe blu-rays should last longer. But I sort of am unsure if they will forever. But I do know they can take a licking and keep on ticking. My sister has 3 kids and she converted most of hers real quick as she noticed her kids love to scratch things. I've seen Blu-ray that looks like someone took sand paper to it, but they keep working.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Bluray-or-Pirate

I'm unsure, but I don't think they last forever.

I was in the middle of converting my old VHS tapes when DVD's came out. I slowly started to port them all over to DVD and suddenly Blu-ray came out.

This made me pause for a moment and stop converting, because I was sort of worried they'd come out with yet again another format. So I waited and now they seem to be trying to push out digital downloads. Which is really not something I really want to get mixed into because I prefer to physically own something and not "virtually".

Any ways.... I noticed that some of my DVD's don't play so well. They don't have any scratches at all and they worked fine originally, but over time I think they degrated. I have no idea as to why.

I do believe blu-rays should last longer. But I sort of am unsure if they will forever. But I do know they can take a licking and keep on ticking. My sister has 3 kids and she converted most of hers real quick as she noticed her kids love to scratch things. I've seen Blu-ray that looks like someone took sand paper to it, but they keep working.

well the question is how long they will last as in "still work" not as in you might decide to move on to a different format. The guys HDD stopped working and so he lost everything on it he was asking if content on a BD is that fragile. The simple answer is no.

[Bluray-or-Pirate]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

well the question is how long they will last as in "still work" not as in you might decide to move on to a different format. The guys HDD stopped working and so he lost everything on it he was asking if content on a BD is that fragile. The simple answer is no.

I and most people I know take both into consideration.

The format
The content
The ware & tear

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Bluray-or-Pirate

I and most people I know take both into consideration.

The format
The content
The ware & tear

but it does not make sense in this discussion. This year I had with my friends a retro-game night and we played on my Atari (that I dusted off and hooked up for the occasion) did the cartridges not last because it was possibly a couple of years before that that I did not play them and god knows when we will do it again?. How does the Atari being obsolete for ages by any reasonable standard stop me from playing packman and the rest on it? I have some films that I own on VHS, DVD and BD, I don't watch my VHS tapes any more nor my DVD but they are still good if ever I feel like using them.

[filmfilm]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Agree ~ I have CD's I bought back in the 70's that are all scratched up & still play just fine.

Weird considering CDs didn't exist as a format in the 1970s.

[LordoftheRings]

• http://www.historyofinformation.com/...ed.php?id=3541 ... 1984
♦ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

In the 70s we were buying 8-track tapes, LPs (analog vinyl) and cassette tapes.
My 8-track tapes still play, but they lost their effervescence. My cassette tapes; I can hear noise coming from the other side, during quiet passages..even music snippets. ...Commercial tapes.
Albums? They are the very best, even better than CDs from the 80s and 90s.

Blu-rays? It's been with us for only ten years (2006).

HD DVDs? I have few rotten ones.

DVDs? Some from Universal and Criterion Collection went totally caput.

Laserdiscs? I have no clue.

CDs? Pinholes from the 80s pressings...bad. Some factories in Canada =- very bad.

VHS tapes? Usually the machines goes caput before the tapes (extensive use).

Reel-to-reel tapes? They need careful storing or else ...

What did I forget? ...Audiophile downloads from HD Track? Hi-res music/movie downloads? Tidal? AM/FM radio? HD radio? Youtube?

[bluray_and_cds_fan]

Why would the plastic degrade? I could imagine them lasting centuries.

[moreorless]

I'm guessing most of those examples are the result of faulty pressing rather than expected life of disks.

So far I can't say I'v ever had an issue with any CD or DVD besides scratching them up myself.