Long term video storage on flash drive camcorders?

I love the new iMovie '08... I'm a professional video editor, and for "real" editing it is fairly useless, but as a quick and easy way to take my home movies, throw them together incredibly quickly, and post them on the web, it's sheer brilliance. I especially love the ability to load in clips from a camcorder the way you'd do still footage in iPhoto...
But before I buy a flash or hdd based camcorder, anyone have suggestions for long term storage? Let's say my grandkids will want to watch the footage 50 years from now, like I watch my grandparent's old 8mm filmstrips.
Is importing every single frame and storing them on a hard drive really the only way to do it? Or are there better options? (And before you suggest burning to a DVD, I consider that temporary storage, with a shelf life of 10 years if you're lucky.)
Any ideas?

I'm with Kirk's strategy...
magnetic tape has a >70y track record.. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to-reelaudio_taperecording .. gosh, a German invention...) you have some options to break it (put tapes on speakers, CRTs, .... ), but usually, it is a very reliable media.
dvds...
some of my first homebrewn disks are.. +digital nirvana+ ... just simple bright sunlight 'burned' them .. first commercial CDs could get rosty...
just to mention that: commercial disks are 'mechanical' done, glas master + 'pits' pressed in the dye.. homebrewn stuff is 'changing the polarized reflection behavior of laser light'... (does this work anyhow )
latest news from here: in some German boards, people complain commercial disks 'get purple' ... the 'plastics' of the disks degrades somehow, changes the color = disk unreadable...
on boards with a less technical attitude, it is discussed, that we live in the 'lost area'... in a few 100 years, there'll be no documents of daily life, no 'manuscripts' of authors.. (e.g. Stephen King can read his first novels only in Print.. his 'original' floppies, including the process of writing, are 'useless' ..), ... any chemical film, older books (newer paper, ≤150y, degrades due to changed manufacturing ..) are readable..
Ken Burns would have trouble to produce a 'The War, pt. II' in 2200 ...

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