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minus-squarekrisevol@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·2 months agoDVDs don’t last forever. I have a ton of dvds that are no longer good. Is actually so bad there are people trying to find still working copies of shows from the 90’s so they can digitize them before they are lost forever.
minus-squareellieficent@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThis is why I went through and ripped all of mine. As soon as the second one died I went full “Fuck this, I’m backing them up.” Jellyfin and offline streaming was just an extra bonus.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoOOC, what do you mean by “no longer good”? Did they de-laminate, did the plastic break down, or did they just stop working? If it helps, you can get kits to polish CDs and DVDs in case they’re too scratched up.
minus-squareZorcron@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoI think it can happen a couple different ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
DVDs don’t last forever. I have a ton of dvds that are no longer good. Is actually so bad there are people trying to find still working copies of shows from the 90’s so they can digitize them before they are lost forever.
This is why I went through and ripped all of mine. As soon as the second one died I went full “Fuck this, I’m backing them up.”
Jellyfin and offline streaming was just an extra bonus.
OOC, what do you mean by “no longer good”? Did they de-laminate, did the plastic break down, or did they just stop working?
If it helps, you can get kits to polish CDs and DVDs in case they’re too scratched up.
I think it can happen a couple different ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
It’s called dvd rot.