About the CONTACT DVD, I´ve heard that the problem was due to the "glue" that held the double layers, or something like that. But I have this DVD for over two years and it still plays fine.

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i know Anchor Bay had a rot problem when they released the Heathers tin a while back...

- Pornmaster Mike

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Look how many of you have lost CD's to laser rot. Laser Discs had the problem due to the flexibility of the disc which cracked the seals. But to the best of my knowledge, there is no problem with DVD's that anyone should be overly worried about.

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I have been very luck in that I have experienced very little CD rot in my 10,000 title collection, and thus far my 2,000 title DVD collection has had no fallout (at least that I have discovered). But I'm not willing to wait until one of my rarities has evaporated to make the decision that backups were in order.

This is not an answer for all of my discs, to back them all up would be prohibitive from a time and money standpoint. But it certainly makes sense for expensive and/or rare discs.

In general though, I'm not sure if I'm lucky or if I've stored my discs properly, but as I mentioned my rot rates have been extremely low.

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Edited by - Planet Sex on 1/29/2003 12:14:20 PM

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Edited by - outkastfan on 3/5/2004 12:11:46 AM

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A more important question, for me at least, is, what do you do with all that stuff. Have you listened and seen every CD and DVD you own, and if you did, more than once? If not, why buy the stuff in the first place?

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DVDs come in two flavors: Mainstream and Porn. Most of the mainstream fits neatly into the CD paradigm, although online DVD rental is changing that for me... now I can rent much of what I would previously have bought. But not everything as boxed sets, Criterion editions and the like are still not readily available at online rent sites.

Porn is the other culprit, but it is the one with the most replay value. Either I watch it once and sell it (and resale value is fairly good, plus I buy much of my stuff used to begin with), or I keep it a long while and watch it many times. This in my mind represents a good bargain.

The upshot is that I have a true media addiction. I am very aware of this and I have been this way for a long time. At the tender age of 12 (think early 70's) I had an LP collection of 1500 pieces. I delivered papers to afford my addiction. Oh well... it could be worse I suppose.

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Luckily,its only happened to me twice so far, with a DVD of Ghostbusters in which the first layer was fine but the second layer was unwatchable, and my Anchor Bay copy of Frankenstein Created Woman (and yes, the first pressing of their Heathers disc was also a problem one). So far, my adult DVDs are OK!

Edited by - cultshock on 1/30/2003 12:52:47 AM

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Anyway: there have been incidents with CDs, and I myself had trouble with "bronzing" on a few discs. The culprit turned out to be the paper flyer in the jewel case: the acids in the paper gradually leached into the air and onto the disc, gradually turning the disc an opaque bronze color.

DVD-9 discs are a little different with a few more vulnerabilities than CDs but bronzing could still apply to them if people aren't careful to put only acid-free paper in the box.

More info from Hyperion Records

PS. On any disc I want to last a long time I store it in a jewel case without any paper and store that in a metal box. I don't put labels on data CDs but rather buy inkjet printable CDs and print directly onto the disc.

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And, although I don't like the orgy of locked and moved threads tonight, this one should go to Tech Talk for futher discussion.

- Saki [faqs]

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I knew the thread was stale, but I actually knew of a page where a record company described "bronzing" on CDs so I thought it was relevant enough, since many think this is all urban legend anyway.

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To my knowledge we havent had any problems with "rot" on any of our DVD's and this is the first Ive heard of it, we pay premium prices to use the best materials on all product we manufacture here in the USA. Being as your in the UK the DVD's may have been replicated elsehwere.
You should be able to return them to the point of purchase for refund, if the discs are a year or more old, is it possible they were exposed to moisture or stored incorrectly??

Best,

Vic

Vic Thomas
Private North America

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I have no idea if there was really a problem with the discs or not. The one incident with CDs of any sort that I know of was caused by the paper insert, not the disc (although some claim the polycarbonate? should have withstood the paper's acid better).

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