Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them

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• Comexs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely

  he (Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader) says the most reliable way to look for playback problems — DVDs that won’t load at all, freeze while you’re watching the film, or have unplayable special features.

  Crusader’s video description links to some Google Docs, one of which is a list he compiled showing what he believes are “known rotted DVD titles” he found reported online

  I skimmed over the article to see if whether or not if they’re just gonna send you another DVD or if they’re gonna do it through other means. I couldn’t find anything.

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  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I read elsewhere that they will replace the disc if they have any stock which is unlikely as most of the titles are out of print. Apparently you can pick another film instead. A like for like replacement.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have hundreds of discs, this will be a challenge… It’s not enough to check the date range, I’ll need to check all the Warner discs. :(

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re going on an adventure!

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Good excuse to get a media server going again… But now I need to invest in more storage.

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a side note, it’s been years since I’ve done backups. Is handbrake still the standard?

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  • marius@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d say it’s makemkv. It’ll give you a pretty big file though as it’s not compressing the video bug giving you the original quality. You can run it through handbrake afterwards to reduce the size. Makemkv even does bruray and uhd bluray

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Use both together. MakeMKV can be tied to Handbrake’s plugin system to decrypt and then encode a compressed file.

      (Enable Handbrake collaboration through MakeMKV)

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    • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh nice, I like the option of no compression being there.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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