Even pressed disc can rot. Like many WB Blu-Rays were made with a faulty process and many will rot in the next few decades.
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HetareKing@piefed.social 13 hours agoDoesn’t recordable optical media also have a pretty limited lifespan? Unlike commercially produced discs, where the pits are pressed into the plastic, CD/DVD/BD-Rs just have a dye that is made to change colour with a laser, and that dye degrades over time.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
HetareKing@piefed.social 12 hours ago
All things decay, not even the doping of ROM chips will last forever, but I think the average lifespan of recorded optical media is like, 10 years? That feels rather short.
rursta@retrolemmy.com 7 hours ago
Not inorganic BDs.
Whatever u do, never expose dyes to sunlight.
HetareKing@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Huh, that’s interesting. I already expressed my thoughts on consumers making their own physical media in another post (tl;dr: I don’t think it makes much sense), but if there are recordable discs with lifespans comparable with pressed discs, maybe a print-on-demand service could be a solution for developers that can’t afford to order a batch of a thousand discs and cases and rely on digital distribution because of that.
rursta@retrolemmy.com 3 hours ago
I consider’m backups. I make & test’m often. I’m even making multiple copies of the same “game” in one BD, to ensure when a BD needs to be reburned.