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question about DVDs bought 10 years ago (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Leonhardt90@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hello guys, I have about 50 Taiyo Yuden DVDs I bought ~10 years ago, it is still unopened and I didn't burn anything on them.

If I burn stuff on them now will it be in good quality, like new DVDs? Or does the quality degrade even if not used?

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[–] ghoarder@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I've burnt to 10+ year old disks and they still work fine, mine are probably medium quailty disks but they are white printable ones and on a spindle so no idea what brand they are. DVD's do degrade over time but I think Taiyo Yuden were supposed to be really good quality ones weren't they?