Bill_de wrote:
In this day and age I'm not sure I would use DVD as the new medium. It won't be too long (not sure what too long is) before you won't find a working DVD player to show them on. If you can go directly to a USB drive it might save you time and money in the future. Quick multiple copies of the USB would give you, or somebody else, a chance to fool around with editing with no danger of destroying your 3rd generation 'original'.
Just a though.
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Much of this is true. Blu-ray disks are now even defunct. Vinyl in 2020 sold more than CD's. Streaming video has killed off much of the optical disks. As you mentioned, a computer video format avi, mkv, mp4, etc. would have a longer shelf life.