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  • wtgW Offline
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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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    • ShiroKuroS Offline
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      Wow that’s awful!!!

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      • R Offline
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        RealPlayer
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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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          I always had a sneaking suspicion that the old vinyl format would prove more durable.

          Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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          • Piano*DadP Piano*Dad

            I always had a sneaking suspicion that the old vinyl format would prove more durable.

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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

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