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DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 4:25 pm
For those of you that have any significant collection of DVDs or CDS, BACK THEM UP!
I wanted to rip my DVD collection so that I could watch them from a list in iTunes rather than digging through boxes. I have 1000+ DVDs and finding a specific one is a chore. During the ripping process, I found that I have (at this point about halfway through), three DVDs that will not read or rip. I tried them on three different computers with no luck. I guess this will mean I have to replace them unless I can find someone that has those particular ones. I tried the torrent sites, but there is so much crap out there I decided to just buy them. Ebay, here I come.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 4:36 pm
What titles are they that failed?
There was a problem with some CDs some years ago that did not last properly, as well as some LDs. Different manufacturing techniques lead to different lifespans for these kinds of products.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Equilibrium - Dimension films
Domino - New Line Home Entertainment
Matrix - Warner Brothers
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 4:50 pm
(July 19, 2015 at 4:25 pm)IATIA Wrote: For those of you that have any significant collection of DVDs or CDS, BACK THEM UP!
I wanted to rip my DVD collection so that I could watch them from a list in iTunes rather than digging through boxes. I have 1000+ DVDs and finding a specific one is a chore. During the ripping process, I found that I have (at this point about halfway through), three DVDs that will not read or rip. I tried them on three different computers with no luck. I guess this will mean I have to replace them unless I can find someone that has those particular ones. I tried the torrent sites, but there is so much crap out there I decided to just buy them. Ebay, here I come.
On the contrary - they DO last forever but it depends on how you store them. I have CDs and DVDs recorded in 1998 and even now they look and read like they were recorded yesterday. If your DVD-ROM can't read them, that means it's time to change it. CDs and DVDs do last forever but the devices that read them - do not.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 4:58 pm
Did they, by any chance, have cracks in the middle ring? I've had a few DVDs rendered unplayable all because of fractures in the middle. If they did, that might be the problem.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 5:08 pm
NO. All three appear to look absolutely brand new. They are kept in boxes stored in the house with the same environmental controls under which I live. 74-76 degrees and 40% humidity.
They played originally, as I always play them within a week of purchase to identify any defects.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 6:11 pm
The fucks a Dee Vee Dee?
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 6:14 pm
(July 19, 2015 at 6:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The fucks a Dee Vee Dee? You really don't know? Digital Video Disc.
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DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 6:14 pm
Other than the plastic breaking down what could happen to a DVD that is in storage?
I would thing the deterioration of the plastic would take a few million years though.
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RE: DVDs do not last forever!
July 19, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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(July 19, 2015 at 6:14 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: (July 19, 2015 at 6:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The fucks a Dee Vee Dee? You really don't know? Digital Video Disc.
Woosh.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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