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by Cpoll 222 days ago
You're citing a report about recordable CD and DVDs. Movie DVDs should be expected to last much longer than that.
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Not necessarily as even the factory produced optical discs have had issues with de-lamination, oxidation etc. Of course a lot of that had to do with companies cheaping out on manufacturing in order to make that last tenth of a cent of profit as they tend to do.