It doesn’t matter. If the CD/DVD works, copy it immediately. If not, so sorry.
Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them
Submitted 10 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/626482/warner-bros-dvd-disc-rot-failure-2006-2008-replacement
Comments
JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
Right? Oh no, my disc rot, good thing I have 3 backups.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Buying musoc CD amd either ripping to flac or pirating flac after it (physically) arrived to keep it sealed.
caboose2006@lemm.ee 10 months 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
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
Krompus@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 10 months 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bought then pirated media like this in many instances, usually because piracy is a better user experience, once because outdated DRM completely broke
Fades@lemmy.world 10 months 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???
caboose2006@lemm.ee 10 months 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
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
be ye shill or bootlicker, may thou be cast at great speed into our Goddess and saviour Sol
caboose2006@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m all for piracy. I just recognise different people want different things.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I must remind you where your Bluray Remux release is sourced from.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 10 months 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.
pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
exu@feditown.com 10 months 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.
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Tillman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Over the Top (dvd in photo) is an excellent movie.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Comexs@lemmy.zip 10 months 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.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
TBF, the words “in print” are the only part of that text that hints to the format provided.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks for the reminder that I own DVDs
I forgot all about them in storage
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cut it open and count the rings
stankmut@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
If you have the dvd case, it’s in the back of it, at the bottom somewhere
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months 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.
RxBrad@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
All optical media is.
tehmics@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shockingly good news from a media corp. Paramount would just steal your discs and tell you to pound sand
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As would Sony and Disney. It is surprising that WB is doing this.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I think this is because WB used cheaper manufacturing and now they’re failing way before they should.