DVD rot

When I first bought Titan A.E on DVD I loved it. Great movie, great picture, great sound I was happy. Later the disc played fine up to the layer pause and then began to stop, skip, and break up constantly until the end of the movie. There were no scratches on the back and the problem excisted in multiple players. I just said WHAT THE HELL. Then I read about DVD rot. This a condition where a factory error that effects dual layer DVDs. In this the layers slowly separate over time until the second layer on the disc won't play months after you buy it. The problem is rare but very very real and horrible. Anyone else have this problem.

You can take your defective discs to a place that doesn't require receipts for exchanges. You can also contact the media company responsible for the disc that was lost to DVD rot. I had a "Shrek" set that had a Disc 2 that was lost to DVD rot. This doesn't occur as often as laserdisc rot, but bad things happen, you know?

The problem has recently been fixed. No disc made 2002 or later can rot. The problem with laserdisc was probably because of the fact it was the first disc format. DVD was the first dual layer disc that were avalible. The problem with dual layer discs is that there new. I doubt HD-DVD rot will happen.

As long as there are dual-layer discs, rot can and will happen. It's an adhesive issue. If HD-DVD uses multiple layers, it will happen there. It can, and will happen with contemporary discs as well.

Your rabid fanaticism for HD, and your propagation of vaporware, is disturbing.

Not nessessarily DVD rot is caused by bad manufactoring if a disc is made right it will never rot. I notice that the problem appears most prevelent in Fox discs. My guess is fox used inferior layer methods in the 90s. I also never had a rot case from any discs made after 2001 was over. So studios are getting better at this and soon will the problem will be gone.

Oh, boy...here we go again! And I thought with the death of the laserdisc format "laser rot" was a thing of the past. I guess not since its specter still looms over us, or so it seems... :@

-THTS