I finally decided what I want to hoard.
I've been hanging out here for a few months after a chance link in another sub showed me this place. The things you guys do to hold on to data are so cool. I feel like archiving is so important in an era where all kinds of media are being faked, destroyed, or removed for the sake of money. So I've been quietly reading and thinking about what I want to save.
I finally decided that I want to archive the media of my childhood. Things like cartoons and kids' shows aren't at the top of the list for many people. But I want to be able to share the things I loved, the things that made me who I am, with my kids one day. It's also a type of media that has degraded rapidly in quality lately, with stuff like YouTube Kids getting flooded with bizarre and unmoderated slop.
I could use some advice on storage. I've read a little about M-Discs and I think that might work for me. I want something that's "set it and forget it", not "I have to check this every month to make sure it hasn't died for some esoteric reason". I don't know if they're any good for frequent reading, but it's fine if not. I figure I can archive with them and then copy onto DVD/Blu-ray when I want the data available years in the future.
I also need some suggestions on how to include captions. I have some audio processing issues, so being able to read captioning has always been important. Captions are also an educational tool for learning how words are spelled and pronounced. I want to make sure captioning is included as much as possible, even if I need to bake them into the image recording.