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Maintaining and preserving physical media is more important than ever, but the depressing reality of disc rot plagues film ...

Movie fans with a lovingly curated DVD collection might want to check the condition of any Warner Bros. discs in their ...

A new plague of disc rot has been discovered, and it's affecting Warner Bros Home Entertainment movies manufactured between ...

The debate between physical media aficionados versus streaming service subscribers continues to rage, even as physical media ...

In response to Bumbray's article, Warner Bros. issued a statement and a potential resolution. "Warner Bros. Home ...

The physical format is suffering a major setback in the movie business, and many users of Warner Bros. printed DVDs are in ...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has acknowledged DVDs manufactured in the mid-2000s could be impacted by disc rot and is ...

DVDs, if taken care of properly, should last for 30 to up to 100 years. It turned out that the problems that Bumbray had weren't due to a DVD player or poor DVD maintenance. In a statement to JoBlo ...

release produced between 2006 and 2008. A rash of disc rot plaguing discs produced by Warners between those years has been ruining collections for years, with reports beginning as early as 2020.

Film collectors recently discovered that potentially hundreds of Warner Bros. DVDs released between 2006 and 2008 have become unplayable due to laser rot. The company has ...

Disc rot (sometimes referred to as laser rot) is the tendency of CDs, DVDs and other optical discs to oxidise underneath the reflective layer, causing the adhesive to de-bond and often resulting ...