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 ...

compiling a list of more than 300 Warner Home Video DVD titles “reported and confirmed” to be victims of disc rot. According to the Post, the Crusader blamed the faulty discs on a Cinam ...

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 ...

DVDs might be a thing of the past, but if you’re someone who kept your collection, you’ll want to check if they’ve fallen victim to disc rot — especially ... shared a video in 2021 that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you owned PCs for a while now? That is, over decades, not just a few years. Then you probably have dozens of backup CDs and DVDs sitting in your closet, waiting for you to get that data onto ...

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.

Some of those little silver discs ... a CD of classical piano rhapsodies by Erno Dohnanyi. It crackles, and eventually the sound just cuts out. This is a variant of what's called "CD rot," Youket ...