longer lasting archival Dvds?

Just wondering everyones thoughts on dvd's. Do you believe that some (the more pricey $$) DVD's will last longer then others (with clients jpegs?) brands? Or do you think they are all about the same quality when it really comes down to it?

taiyo yuden > all

Agreed. But you'd be foolish to trust your backups solely to DVDs, i've heard many horror stories of unreadable disks after only 5 years, using good quality media.

I keep stuff on hard drives and dvds I give my clients a Delkin Gold archival DVD with Files on it to store and then a regular dvd for them to use.

so does everyone backup every disc they own every 5 years then?

I back up to multiple hard drives. DVDs are too small, in a full month of weddings I generate 40-60GB of data.

What about for personal family photos? Ijust had my son, have taken about a million photos, and am now paranoid about the discs one day failing and all pics being lost. Or even hard drive failing...eeek! maybe i should just print some of my faves so that I have a Hard copy!! Funny how I almost care more then I do about clients photos! !(i give them the DVD, so while I keep a copy, its ultimatly up to them to preserve the images for the long haul). BUT My sons pics are my job!!! sigh...

I back up my personal and professional work in the same way - to multiple hard drives stored in multiple locations. Remember the risks are fire (ie house burns down), theft, media failure, and accidental deletion. DVD as a 3rd line backup's ok, but that's all i'd use them for - and I don't at all at the moment. I did consider writing final JPG images to DVD for archiving as a 3rd line, but it's quite time consuming for very little benefit given my hard drive backups.