Originally Posted by Wombat 
Reminders of this kind are always timely and welcome, Ben. Thanks.
When I worked in radio we used to backup large music files onto videotape. Apparently tape is a much more reliable storage medium than CD, DVD etc. and it's pretty cheap compared with DAT. Has anyone tried storing photos this way? I'm not sure how you could physically connect a video recorder to a computer to store graphics, but someone will know.
Why is CD or DVD less reliable than tape?