Shockingly good news from a media corp. Paramount would just steal your discs and tell you to pound sand
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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It doesn’t matter. If the CD/DVD works, copy it immediately. If not, so sorry.
Right? Oh no, my disc rot, good thing I have 3 backups.
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Welp, guess I'm digging out my complete SG1 collection tonight.
I have to watch them all, you say? No, honey, this is important work I'm doing here. 😎
It's an investment
I didn't know DVDs are supposed to last 100 years. That's definitely not the case with newer storage media, be it BluRay, hard disks or even worse SSDs.
Modern Blurays should actually last longer than DVDs. Bluray M-Discs supposedly even last 1000 years. 100 years for DVDs is pretty optimistic. 20-50 years is more realistic.
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many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely
he (Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader) says the most reliable way to look for playback problems — DVDs that won’t load at all, freeze while you’re watching the film, or have unplayable special features.
Crusader’s video description links to some Google Docs, one of which is a list he compiled showing what he believes are “known rotted DVD titles” he found reported online
I skimmed over the article to see if whether or not if they're just gonna send you another DVD or if they're gonna do it through other means. I couldn't find anything.
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How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?
Cut it open and count the rings
If you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.
If you have the dvd case, it's in the back of it, at the bottom somewhere
No, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but no disc manufacturing dates.
I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.
Huh, if that doesn't work there are a few websites that will show you info about when the dvd was released
Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.
Sorry that wasn't clear, there are websites that let you look up info from the barcode