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    20 hours ago

    VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.

    DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)

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        17 hours ago

        At least, yeah. The estimated lifetime for pressed consumer compact disks is 30-100 years (incl dvd/bluray), assuming a bell curve distribution, you should get at least that