Maintaining and preserving physical media is more important than ever, but the depressing reality of disc rot plagues film ...

We live in a world with an abundance of media. It wasn’t always that way. So digitise memories on analogue media before they disappear.

Disc rot occurs when CDs, DVDs or similar optical discs deteriorate, becoming unreadable or creating playback issues such as skipping, glitching or freezing while playing the title or special features ...

The YouTuber compiled a master list of “reported and confirmed” Warner Home Video DVDs that have rotted. In another Google Doc he created, he blames the faulty discs that were manufactured “roughly ...

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The debate between physical media aficionados versus streaming service subscribers continues to rage, even as physical media ...

Disc rot (sometimes referred to as laser rot) is the tendency of CDs, DVDs and other optical discs to oxidise underneath the reflective layer, causing the adhesive to de-bond and often resulting ...

Warner Bros. is offering replacements after discovering DVDs from the mid 2000s are now only good for drink coasters.

In the years since, Warner Bros. discovered a slew of its movies are suffering from “disc rot” -- turning them into shiny drink coasters. Brad will explain what disc rot is and how Warner Bros.