For me, it comes down to: the longevity of burnt DVDs isn't
established yet. I have VCR tapes from the early 80s that still
function. So I guess it's a wait and see thing. Depending on people's
needs, some have reasons to keep VCRs around and some don't, no
biggie.


That is a possible issue, I haven't personally had many problems with the
better brands of recordable CD's but I have had a few cheapies fail. Of
course these days it's not too terribly expensive to backup that stuff on a
USB hard drive and stash it away.