this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
68 points (95.9% liked)

Hardware

1224 readers
166 users here now

All things related to technology hardware, with a focus on computing hardware.

Rules (Click to Expand):

  1. Follow the Lemmy.world Rules - https://mastodon.world/about

  2. Be kind. No bullying, harassment, racism, sexism etc. against other users.

  3. No Spam, illegal content, or NSFW content.

  4. Please stay on topic, adjacent topics (e.g. software) are fine if they are strongly relevant to technology hardware. Another example would be business news for hardware-focused companies.

  5. Please try and post original sources when possible (as opposed to summaries).

  6. If posting an archived version of the article, please include a URL link to the original article in the body of the post.

Some other hardware communities across Lemmy:

Icon by "icon lauk" under CC BY 3.0

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Alphane_Moon
[email protected]
68
“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Alphane_Moon to c/hardware
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Buddahriffic 4 points 2 days ago

Which is kinda funny because I've recently started getting my old files off of burnt CDs older than that and was surprised to find that (so far) there haven't been any noticeable degradation issues.

The pressed discs are supposed to be longer lasting than burned discs but evidently WB just went really cheap with their discs. Kinda makes me wonder if they didn't just cheap out but deliberately did this to fuel a future format upgrade cycle or drive people to streaming even after purchasing their movies legally.

Though at least they didn't make them install rootkits to try to prevent any disc ripping, whether it was related to piracy or not.