Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them

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• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shockingly good news from a media corp. Paramount would just steal your discs and tell you to pound sand

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  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As would Sony and Disney. It is surprising that WB is doing this.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think this is because WB used cheaper manufacturing and now they’re failing way before they should.

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• JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter. If the CD/DVD works, copy it immediately. If not, so sorry.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    or just pirate it whenever.

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah seriously; never understood why a certain sector of people obsess over backing up their personal media, when you can literally download a perfect copy straight from the internet with no effort on your part. Especially when it comes to widely-available media like popular Hollywood films or video games that sold well. Just grab a torrent and toss the disc.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Right? Oh no, my disc rot, good thing I have 3 backups.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Buying musoc CD amd either ripping to flac or pirating flac after it (physically) arrived to keep it sealed.

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• caboose2006@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For those saying “just pirate it” some people like the option of physical media and have moral qualms about piracy. This is actually a good thing WB is doing. Just let people have their DVDs

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you own the physical DVD, fair use allows you to own a backup copy, so torrenting it in that case would not be unethical nor illegal.

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    • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re allowed to make your own backup, but I’m pretty sure downloading somebody else’s backup is still illegal? First time I’ve seen someone suggest otherwise, would love more details about the actual laws.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have bought then pirated media like this in many instances, usually because piracy is a better user experience, once because outdated DRM completely broke

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  • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck off, these people already own it at this point, so there is no such moral qualms. They paid for it. As for physical media, do you think only these companies can burn ISOs to DVD???

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    • caboose2006@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes they already own them and WB is replacing them, they’re not buying them again. Man, so hostile. And for some there are those moral qualms. I know some of them. I’m not one of them. Calm down

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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    be ye shill or bootlicker, may thou be cast at great speed into our Goddess and saviour Sol

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    • caboose2006@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m all for piracy. I just recognise different people want different things.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I must remind you where your Bluray Remux release is sourced from.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, that is a very valid option! I don’t like it when people not into collecting do it, though. Because it makes zero logical sense for a digital copy to be tied to a physical thing, unless you like the sentimental value of said physical thing as well.

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  • pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I totally understand the desire to own physical media and agree that WB is doing the right thing here, but optical media is terrible means of preserving media. If your discs are suffering from disc rot, you really shouldn’t lose sleep over making or “sourcing” your own local digital copies.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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    • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Apparently there’s some huge drama in data hoarding communities about manufacturers switching between different recording technologies, and how everybody is worried that they aren’t going to last for 5-10-100-1000 years.

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• Tillman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Over the Top (dvd in photo) is an excellent movie.

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• Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just checked one of my dvd shelf and two WB movies that should be in excellent condition were little bit sticky from both sides. This feels like a flashback to when Arturia’s hardware keys and knobs started to ”melt” after few years. Companies use cheapest plastics possible.

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• Comexs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

    ???

    It’s right in the quote in the article:

    Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles are no longer in print or the rights have expired, consumers have been offered an exchange for a title of like-value.

    Consumers with affected product can contact the customer support team at whv@wbd.com.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TBF, the words “in print” are the only part of that text that hints to the format provided.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks for the reminder that I own DVDs

  I forgot all about them in storage

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cut it open and count the rings

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    • stankmut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you have the dvd case, it’s in the back of it, at the bottom somewhere

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    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but not a single disc manufacturing date.

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• RxBrad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All optical media is.

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