Dead DVD-R's

[yuri_base 1]

Yo!

I have a nice collection of BASE videos, but it's slowly dying. Once in a while, I'd insert a DVD-R to watch the video and it would start skipping or not playing at all. So much for "70 year lifetime"!

Radix - half dead
Superterminal - dead
Thread the Needle II - half dead
Australian ABA videos 2004, 2005 (3 disks) - mostly dead

and perhaps several others that I haven't watched in a while but are aging.

None seemed to last longer than 2-year or so. Pressed DVDs work fine in the same player.

Firstly, it's a heads-up. Got a video on DVD-R? Backup TODAY!

Secondly, a question: anyone know any programs that can backup dying DVDs by doing multiple slow reads or whatnot?

Thanks.

Yuri

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[BMFin 0]

I dont know much about this matter, but what I have heard is that depending on the price of the DVD-R they have refelctivity in the range of 20% - 60% compared to pressed DVD´s

Also the laser will wear out sooner or later in your DVD player and will result to a weaker laser power..

In order to play DVD-R´s you just need more laser power..

You could maby try another DVD player..

[DSE 3]

If the discs have been left in the sun or heat, they'll lose a lot of their life. If you don't see peeling on the disc, you can usually gently run a DiscDoktor over them, and that helps. I'd be getting the content off from the DVD ASAP.
Bear in mind that in the case of many of these sorts of DVDs, the cheapest store-bought DVDs were used as opposed to high quality media that costs double a "Walmart" brand. They're not nearly as well-made and do die much sooner.

[johnboy 0]

Does anyone have a brand they like better than others? I will never buy a Maxell again, but I get great results with TDK or Sony, both -R and +R.

Any experience with Discmakers, anyone?

[The111 0]

Taiyo Yuden is good, get it from am-dig.com. Mitsui was king of CD-R years ago but I've heard they were bought out and went downhill.

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[erikph 0]

A good tool to recover damaged or fading discs, is isobuster. It is rather easy to use, and for non-critical use, you will not need the pro version, so it comes free as well.

In the early years of DVD, there were problems with the ink that was used to print labels on the discs. It took a few years before it became apparent that some types of ink and colour dye had a chemical reaction with the protective coating of the discs and very slowly damaged them. So cheap discs with fancy print on them are likely candidates to fade away.

If you clean the disc before recovery (with lens cleaner or a specialised product), be aware that some of those chemicals might not be very good for your drive.

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[pilotdave 0]

Like 111 said, some brands are better than others. Companies like Maxell don't make the discs... the actual disc manufacturers are not labeled on the package... you'll have to look up what brands use which manufacturer's discs. There are websites with tables to look that up. Probably a quick google search.

Dave