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cryo32today at 11:53 AM4 repliesview on HN

I find DVDs mostly pointless now. I've started seeing some from around 2000 which are now unplayable.


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mapontoseventhstoday at 12:16 PM

DVD was made with organic dyes that are susceptible to disc rot. For a brief time some cheap blu rays were as well.

Now though all blu rays are inorganic and should last about 100 years. Some can last closer to 1000 years.

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markus_zhangtoday at 12:05 PM

So far mines still work. It’s the DVD players that are less reliable. But still I bought old Dell workstations that have one of those installed.

geerlingguytoday at 12:42 PM

I buy physical media, and immediately rip it to my Jellyfin library.

The disc goes into a big case logic cd case, and the digital file gets backed up to two other places so there's almost an infinitesimally small chance I lose access to the content.

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