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Not CDs, but one brand/manufacturer of HD-DVDs is notorious for rot (I've heard suggestions they used bad glue, but I haven't confirmed this). Of the 20 or so I
by stordoff 6y ago
Not CDs, but one brand/manufacturer of HD-DVDs is notorious for rot (I've heard suggestions they used bad glue, but I haven't confirmed this). Of the 20 or so I have (all Warner Brothers IIRC), at least half are unreadable (usually the first 20-50% is readable then it errors out).
They did replace 300 with a Blu-Ray copy (this was after HD-DVD was obviously on its way out), but the rest didn't fail until much later or were bought used for literally pennies.
For pressed CDs, I can't ever remember getting one that was unreadable and not obviously scratched (though I did have a game CD shatter into hundreds of pieces in the drive).