Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 day agoProperly manufactured Audio CDs are actually quite resilient, obviously not so much to scratches but out of all my 100+ CDs (I’d say half of which are older than 25 years) only one has disc rot and that one is a pressing made by PDO who’s known for their bad pressings prone to disc rot.
I don’t really store my CDs in a special way either.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The life span of CD/DVD is not on the printed media but on the media we make/made our backups on. Of my many spindles from back in 2k (some disks are almost 25 yrs old), so far maybe 5 disks have gone partially or completely unreadable, lucky I didn’t lose much. Baring scratches or other physical damage, the printed disks will last decades where my disks have outlasted prediction