Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCheck your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing themwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1381cross-posted to: homevideo@feddit.uk
arrow-up1381external-linkCheck your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing themwww.theverge.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: homevideo@feddit.uk
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoHow does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·1 day agoCut it open and count the rings
minus-squarestankmut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoIf you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.
minus-squareyessikglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoIf you have the dvd case, it’s in the back of it, at the bottom somewhere
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 day agoNo, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but no disc manufacturing dates. I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.
minus-squareyessikglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoHuh, if that doesn’t work there are a few websites that will show you info about when the dvd was released
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoUnfortunately, that doesn’t help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.
minus-squareyessikglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoSorry that wasn’t clear, there are websites that let you look up info from the barcode
How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?
Cut it open and count the rings
If you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.
If you have the dvd case, it’s in the back of it, at the bottom somewhere
No, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but no disc manufacturing dates.
I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.
Huh, if that doesn’t work there are a few websites that will show you info about when the dvd was released
Unfortunately, that doesn’t help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.
Sorry that wasn’t clear, there are websites that let you look up info from the barcode