{"id":18,"date":"2004-04-23T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/04\/23\/paper-dvds\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:35:13","slug":"paper-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/23\/paper-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3639585.stm\" title=\"Paper DVDs on the horizon\">this<\/a> story on BBC News earlier in the week about high-capacity paper discs.  They sound amazing, both in terms of data capacity and how much more environmentally-friendly I guess they will be, but I can&#8217;t help wondering whether after a while they would take on a musty smell and go yellow like library books.<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:6931,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/technology\\\/3639585.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260202211327\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/technology\\\/3639585.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 17:15:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 15:11:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 14:40:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 08:47:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-16 22:41:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-21 22:52:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-21 22:52:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/23\/paper-dvds\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Paper DVDs\"><div class='e-content p-summary'>I saw this story on BBC News earlier in the week about high-capacity paper discs. They sound amazing, both in terms of data capacity and how much more environmentally-friendly I guess they will be, but I can&#8217;t help wondering whether after a while they would take on a musty smell and go yellow like library [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/chase-challenge-2005\/","url_meta":{"origin":18,"position":0},"title":"Chase Challenge 2005","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"4 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This year I and a (growing) number of my colleagues are planning to run in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Battersea Park. 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