Cranberry offers new archival DVD
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 12, 2009 at 1:00am
Consumers are beginning to discover family photos, videos and important files saved to recordable DVDs are unreadable in as few as two years. However, a new “1,000 year DVD” from Cranberry using high-tech, diamond-hard material promises to preserve irreplaceable digital files for the ages.
The Cranberry DiamonDisc, invented by professors at BYU and commercialized by Springville, Utah startup Millenniata, is now available to consumers for less than US$30 each. This new disc is the only permanent storage solution available on the market for digital files including photos, videos and electronic documents, according to David McInnis, founder of Cranberry.
He says that, unlike conventional recordable DVDs and CDs, the Cranberry DiamonDisc has no adhesive layers, dye layer or reflective layer to deteriorate—thereby avoiding the “data rot” that quickly corrodes all recordable DVDs. The transparent Cranberry DiamonDisc is environmentally stable and remains unaffected by UV and changes in temperature and humidity. Both the National Archives and the Library of Congress have warned consumers that home-burned DVDs unreliable and may not be readable beyond two to five years.
“The Cranberry DiamonDisc is playable on most regular DVD drives today and will last as far into the future as we can imagine,” McInnis says.
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