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Archival Gold CDRs should be fine. The medium is supposed to good for 300 years based on accelerated testing.

http://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html

Make a redundant copy and you should be fine.

As far as being able to read it, there is so much stuff on CD sized optical media I would be truly shocked if in 25 year readers would not be commonly available. I've already had CD music players for that long.

Why not archive quality DVDs? They are more expensive then standard DVDs but cheaper then SD cards.
Make copies just to be sure.
http://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html

"What exactly was your point about MS being better?"

Ways in which Microsoft is "better":

-A key point for me, is that Microsoft wasn't trying to push a NEW and UNNECESSARY "standard" on me when I purchased my GAME CONSOLE. That's an abstract thing, but I still appreciate not being someone's media format guinea pig. 2 points MS!

-DVD is CHEAP! It's more than capable of holding enough data for 9 out of 10 games. If it doesn't, then slap another DVD in the box and call it a day. Let's say you actually NEEDED 50GB of storage for a game. A regular DVD holds 9GB (Dual Layer), so you'd need (50 / 9 = 5.555) 6 DVD's. OK fine. How much are the actual discs though?

According to:

http://www.mediasupply.com/bluray.html
TDK DVD 25GB BD-R (Recordable) Single-Layer Blu-ray Disc
$19.90

That's $19.90 PER DISK!

http://www.mediasupply.com/mama.html
MAM-A/Mitsui 4.7GB Gold Archive DVD-R - 50 Ct.
$99.00
(99 \ 50 = 1.98)

That's $1.98 PER DISK!

(6 x $1.98 = $11.88)
So even if you needed 6 DVDs to hold your game, you'd still be paying ALMOST half the price for just the physical media! Granted, I'm sure the prices are much different in bulk, but the principle is the same. Nine times out of 10, cheaper without any real drawbacks is better "Just Because".
Score two more points for Microsoft.

-Screw the movie companies! I didn't want to get caught up in their format pissing contest anyway. By buying a DVD based console, I basically told BOTH sides in the HDDVD v BD pissing match to go screw themselves and sat down to a nice game of Rainbow Six. That's always fun! Score!

-This is more of a subjective thing, but quite honestly, alot of the PS3 library is CRAP! Outside of a handful of shining examples, they've been releasing noting but garbage. And even some of the better titles (Half-Life 2, UT3) are suffering from poor performance problems that, quite frankly shouldn't be there. I personally think they dropped the ball in giving their developers assistance with the hardware early on BECAUSE they were so focused on this Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD pissing contest. Microsoft! Swish!

-You could title this one "Hardware Bullshit", "Bait and Switch", or even "Playing Catchup". I really don't like Kotaku AT ALL, but I have to give them credit for their PS3 coverage. I'll let former Sony Big-Wig "Ken Kutaragi" and Kotaku do the talking:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/2007-b'c'/scee-explains-ps3-bc-backpedalling-307768.php
"So why, exactly, was backwards compatibility dropped from the PS3? What was once a "core value" and "necessary" according to Sony Computer Entertainment's Phil Harrison--not to mention a boastful talking point when asked about the Xbox 360's BC-- is now clearly not at all necessary, with the company's priorities on "developing innovative new features and services for PS3 and not on backwards compatibility."

http://kotaku.com/gaming/business/dumb-exec-quote-round+up-rodeo-327776.php
(PlayStation Father Ken Kutaragi on the PS3's intial price tag:
"It's probably too cheap... We want consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one.'")

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs06/tgs06-kutaragis-keynote-a-rerun-202907.php
He's even upfront about Sony's media agenda on occasion: "Sony has Sony's agenda. But (I) want a very open platform, equal for every person."

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs06/tgs06-liveblogging-kutaragis-keynote-202427.php
Even Ken knows that using a cheap media format is a good idea. That was one of the key factors in their vi

"What exactly was your point about MS being better?"

Ways in which Microsoft is "better":

-A key point for me, is that Microsoft wasn't trying to push a NEW and UNNECESSARY "standard" on me when I purchased my GAME CONSOLE. That's an abstract thing, but I still appreciate not being someone's media format guinea pig. 2 points MS!

-DVD is CHEAP! It's more than capable of holding enough data for 9 out of 10 games. If it doesn't, then slap another DVD in the box and call it a day. Let's say you actually NEEDED 50GB of storage for a game. A regular DVD holds 9GB (Dual Layer), so you'd need (50 / 9 = 5.555) 6 DVD's. OK fine. How much are the actual discs though?

According to:

http://www.mediasupply.com/bluray.html
TDK DVD 25GB BD-R (Recordable) Single-Layer Blu-ray Disc
$19.90

That's $19.90 PER DISK!

http://www.mediasupply.com/mama.html
MAM-A/Mitsui 4.7GB Gold Archive DVD-R - 50 Ct.
$99.00
(99 \ 50 = 1.98)

That's $1.98 PER DISK!

(6 x $1.98 = $11.88)
So even if you needed 6 DVDs to hold your game, you'd still be paying ALMOST half the price for just the physical media! Granted, I'm sure the prices are much different in bulk, but the principle is the same. Nine times out of 10, cheaper without any real drawbacks is better "Just Because".
Score two more points for Microsoft.

-Screw the movie companies! I didn't want to get caught up in their format pissing contest anyway. By buying a DVD based console, I basically told BOTH sides in the HDDVD v BD pissing match to go screw themselves and sat down to a nice game of Rainbow Six. That's always fun! Score!

-This is more of a subjective thing, but quite honestly, alot of the PS3 library is CRAP! Outside of a handful of shining examples, they've been releasing noting but garbage. And even some of the better titles (Half-Life 2, UT3) are suffering from poor performance problems that, quite frankly shouldn't be there. I personally think they dropped the ball in giving their developers assistance with the hardware early on BECAUSE they were so focused on this Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD pissing contest. Microsoft! Swish!

-You could title this one "Hardware Bullshit", "Bait and Switch", or even "Playing Catchup". I really don't like Kotaku AT ALL, but I have to give them credit for their PS3 coverage. I'll let former Sony Big-Wig "Ken Kutaragi" and Kotaku do the talking:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/2007-b'c'/scee-explains-ps3-bc-backpedalling-307768.php
"So why, exactly, was backwards compatibility dropped from the PS3? What was once a "core value" and "necessary" according to Sony Computer Entertainment's Phil Harrison--not to mention a boastful talking point when asked about the Xbox 360's BC-- is now clearly not at all necessary, with the company's priorities on "developing innovative new features and services for PS3 and not on backwards compatibility."

http://kotaku.com/gaming/business/dumb-exec-quote-round+up-rodeo-327776.php
(PlayStation Father Ken Kutaragi on the PS3's intial price tag:
"It's probably too cheap... We want consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one.'")

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs06/tgs06-kutaragis-keynote-a-rerun-202907.php
He's even upfront about Sony's media agenda on occasion: "Sony has Sony's agenda. But (I) want a very open platform, equal for every person."

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs06/tgs06-liveblogging-kutaragis-keynote-202427.php
Even Ken knows that using a cheap media format is a good idea. That was one of the key factors in their vi

Blu-Ray R and RW discs are available in single and dual layer versions( here, and here.

I couldn't find any dual layer HD-DVD media for sale.

If you're really lookihng for TY's and don't mind spending a buck, you can get them from places like MediaSupply and American Digital. You're probably looking at prices around .35 USD a disc, which is a hefty premium for something that may fail you in your hour of need anyways ;)

I just had a 120 gig Western Digital SE drive fail, so losing 700 megs of data is no big deal to me :) I'm trying the black voodoo 'freezer trick' right now to try to extract data.

You say "an ordinary DVD-burner";is it a limitation built into consumer grade DVD*R, or is that info in an area only accessable with a press?

Can I use a DVD-R recorder to copy commerical DVD movies?

No. DVD-R discs have an area called the "CSS decryption key area" molded at the factory with information that prevents copying.