On September 14, 2015 at 09:11, Dawn Gordon Luks said...
Don't forget about "LaserRot". Most discs are pretty much unwatchable with color specs (called ColorFlash) all over the image. There was a problem with the interdisc glue that caused this deterioration, and it was never really fixed.
+1
But this was also a problem that at one time affected some CDs and DVDs too. I had experienced it myself on 1-2 DVD titles and 4-5 CDs titles over the last 20+ years. And I believe I have found a few more CDs recently, when I was re-burning all of my collection, that have gone bad. (400+ titles).
Funny how we as consumers are lied to about these kind of things. When CDs first came out, I remember one of the selling features was "your discs would last forever". Fine print said 25-50 years guaranteed or something like that (think I even remember 100 years being told back in the early 80s).
Then!!! we find out the lies, after we already bought hundreds of discs costing thousands of dollars.
