Advice for backing up media - Blu Ray? Anyone try it?

I am currently using external drives to back up lots of video and was wondering if anyone has tried using a Blu Ray burner to do this? Not sure what the data limitations of the disk are? Are there external ones? Would you recommend it or wait a bit longer?
Thanks.

Absolutely, original tapes, along with a project in which they've been properly logged and captured, are the best form of backup.
But not everyone works with DV sources, and not all of our source material is batch-re-capturable.
For instance, I work with an agency that reps touring bands, and a lot of the source material I get is on DVD video. I have to rip and extract the video (to which the clients hold the rights) and import it. At this point, whiile I could theoretically repeat this procedure and get a file almost identical, it still isn't frame accurate and would require some reworking to rebuild any project if teh media were lost.
I agree Blu-ray isn't cost-effective yet per GB, and DVD-5 requires a lot of time and patience to archive. But it's still a good, safe way to back up material like this, IMHO. To steal Shane's example, drop a DVD and a hard drive from a foot off the ground and see which still works. I do archive to hard drives to keep things accessible, but I know too well how vulnerable that storage medium is to failure.
my two cents.

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Let me try again, though. (Also, just thinking about the footage, forgetting about effects, titles, etc.)
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