Help with DVD problem, please. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I got a DVD, never used with cellophane intact, produced in 1993 on ebay. I thought maybe, since I didn't get a DRM warning, it predated DRM, and I could just copy it to my hard drive, so I did. Both the copy and the DVD are now corrupted and unplayable. I want to fix the DVD then rip it to my hard drive. Googling gives plenty of suggestions for ripping but none for fixing. Please help if you can. Thanks.

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 11 months ago

I have many original professional made audio CDs from the early 90s that if you listen them, there are a lot of skips. I watch them against a light and I can see many dots. Bought them in 1991, started to have this problem a decade ago. They're with a gold dye

For audio CDs I never saw two layers of plastic, only saw that on DVDs. But I stopped buying audio CDs in the late 90s

[-] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

What do you mean by professional made? The color of any dyes doesn't really enter into it.

Mass produced CDs were physically stamped foil laminated with plastics. Writable discs regardless of quality, professional or otherwise, worked on a completely different principle which would fade (or rot) over time. Pretty much every other problem is physical and not rot.