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| Thread ID: 99363 | 2009-04-29 04:30:00 | VHS out DVD in | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 769419 | 2009-04-29 04:30:00 | Like many others I am busily engaged in transferring all our old tapes onto DVD. I use our Sony player/burner and its excellent. I loath the silly jewellery cases, used by so many for DVD storage and put all mine in paper envelopes and they store nicely in the boxes I originally bought for my 5.25 disks! Well over a 100 is just a handful this way. I just use Sharpie fine point pens to write on the disks - and I number them. But I dropped a clanger last week. I have always used Verbatim disks - nice silvery finish which shows up the black pens nicely. I bought Memorex and didn't realize until I got them home they have a dark blue finish. Just to make things worse the first two I tried were duff. Black printing does not show up well on them - but I remember many years ago using a white pen - that worked well. I cannot find one now - anybody any ideas where I can obtain such a device and do they still exist. I am not referring to the pens for whiting out typing mistakes etc. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 769420 | 2009-04-29 04:54:00 | Stationery Warehouse have white pens, it says "Hybrid Gel grip" on the pen clip. I bought one in an attempt to re-whiten the lettering on a black keyboard :lol: It was partially succesful, but didn't last very long. You do need to be careful though as to what kind of pen you use, I'd be inclined to use those pens that are specially for CDs. Dick Smith sell a packet of various colours, made by Staedtler, black, green, blue, red. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 769421 | 2009-04-29 05:17:00 | I use a Staedtler Lumocolor CD-R Pen. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 769422 | 2009-04-29 06:35:00 | Or use Lightscribe discs in a Lightscribe DVD.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 769423 | 2009-04-29 06:36:00 | I just use what ever I pick up out the drawer. Laundry Marker, Sharpie, Marker pens anything from fine to very wide. I do get Inkjet printables a lot but not always and by the time I dig the printer adapter out to print them it is just as quick to just write on them. The downside is that my writing is terrible and later sometimes it can be a bit of a mystery as to what they are. I backup and name them eg Jan 2009 A or Jan 2009 B etc and then run a CMD dir list over them and file it as a text file as to what is on them. Search and replace soon finds anything I want and identifies the Cd or DVD it is on. I have a lightscribe burner but I don't like the result, it is not as easy to read as a big black or red marker |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 769424 | 2009-04-29 08:38:00 | There is a handy marker used by electricians for annotating switchboards that writes quite nicely in white. I cannot remember the brand name, but electrical wholesalers stock them; a bit of a cross between a felt-tip and a broad ball point. They are pretty good for durability. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 769425 | 2009-04-29 14:11:00 | Like many others I am busily engaged in transferring all our old tapes onto DVD. Don't rely just on a single DVD for storage as writen discs might not last as long as the tape. :( |
GoodHour (12218) | ||
| 769426 | 2009-04-29 23:18:00 | Don't rely just on a single DVD for storage as writen discs might not last as long as the tape. :( Been wondering about this. Needless to say there were no backups for the tapes. Strange how for hundreds of years backups for anything were not even considered in most cases. We seem to have gone daft on it now. The tapes have lasted quite well but there is some sign of deterioration whereas the last technical paper I read on DVDs indicated that their storage properties were far superior to tapes. I doubt if there is much in the way of experience yet to indicate what is the way to go - but years ago I was involved in artificially inducing more age into engineering components. Anybody else got advice for us? I rather suspect I am waiting until external hard drives are given away with the PCWorld and I will then switch once again. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 769427 | 2009-04-30 09:02:00 | You might want to consider archival grade dvds. I've used Verbatim Ultralife Archival Grade DVD-R's to back up all my families digital photos. Not too expensive. I think I paid $15 for a 5-pack. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 769428 | 2009-05-01 00:06:00 | You might want to consider archival grade dvds. I've used Verbatim Ultralife Archival Grade DVD-R's to back up all my families digital photos. Not too expensive. I think I paid $15 for a 5-pack. I hadn't heard of these - but they do seem expensive. I presume they are better able to withstand years of neglect etc. I pay about $37 for 50 disks from Dick Smith and so far had only two duff disks which could (and probably were) my fault anyway. For my pen I ended up with something I had already decided was not suitable - a Papermate Liquidpaper, in other words a correcting pen. It does the job though and will probably see me through the rest of my dark disks. I did look at Dick Smiths multi coloured pens but of course they were all dark writers - I needed white. I also tried asking about the electricians pens - the electricians I asked had never heard of them. Such is life. Tom |
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