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Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, if that doesn't work there are a few websites that will show you info about when the dvd was released

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry that wasn't clear, there are websites that let you look up info from the barcode

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