DVD rot
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Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore; updated with response from WBB
Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now.
https://www.joblo.com/warner-bros-dvds-dont-work/
I don’t have a a lot of DVDs anymore, but I do have some of the ones described in the article. Mostly old classic flicks…..
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Without telling me, my wife gave away our old DVD player. Oh, well, we move on. It’s not like we had a collection of old movies.
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@Piano-Dad said in DVD rot:
I always had a sneaking suspicion that the old vinyl format would prove more durable.
I was thinking about that too....
I have also recently been thinking about the importance of paper copies of books rather than digital. Sure, paper books can be burned, but it takes a lot more work than digitally editing an e-book or e-pub (after the fact, as is being tried these days...)
A DVD is a so-called "hard copy" but obviously more vulnerable than the physical groves of a vinyl record...
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I did a lot of work on DVD plants/machinery over the years - pretty much up to when most companies moved production overseas. I remember the techs predicting that those discs wouldn’t last as the process they used was crap
