With all the digital photos and home movies as well as purchased CD & DVDs, it's really time for people to start having archive procedures at home. CNN.com - CDs, DVDs not so immortal - May 6, 2004 Something like off-site backups and creating fresh copies every year or so needs to become the norm. So many people are going to complain about losing their digital photos in like 5 years. Makes you want to print them out and store them in a shoe box.