However, some fresh fuel has just been dumped on the fire: did you know that your physical game collection is rotting ... those experiencing premature disc rot, sometimes known as laser rot.

If you, like us, came of age during the CD era and consequently ... that a phenomenon known as 'disc rot' could potentially destroy your CDs, DVDs and games over time. The first signs of the ...

disc rot. It's a condition that is real enough to have its own Wikipedia page, which describes the issue as "the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of ...

The phenomenon, called "CD rot," can ruin a disc in as few as five years ... President of American Magnetic Media, Inc., a video duplication company, located in Aurora, as he examined a music ...

I'm currently in a purge phase, and trying to get rid of some old CD's. I have some old video games that ... retaining the disc. Click to expand... Old computer games on CD are worth a lot now.

CDs later became a popular storage medium for video ... The game is forever damaged, and likely to get worse over the years. Now, many sources online will claim that disc rot is a limited-scope ...

The above 2021 video from YouTuber Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader that Ars points to suggests disc rot is affecting a broader ... TV shows, and games we love — something that can happen without ...

TVs, game consoles ... Putting aside the current disc rot situation affecting Warner Bros. DVDs, owning a physical copy of media — be it a Blu-ray, a CD, or a vinyl record — is the only ...

but they can be affected by disc rot, a form of physical deterioration that affects optical discs, causing them to become unreadable over time due to corrosion or damage to the reflective layer.