This article is new, but to be clear the disks started rotting within ~5 years of purchase, not just now after 20 years. The issue has been known for a long tim

This article is new, but to be clear the disks started rotting within ~5 years of purchase, not just now after 20 years. The issue has been known for a long time, like in 2012: > > Apparantly most releases from Warner Bros on HD-DVD have laser rot. I have many titles that just freeze in the middle of the movie. I thought it was a problem with my player, but I read on other forums that this is a manufacturing fault from the discs... https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?p=10181&sid=5039399ce60545b8e6348c28361ce6b3#p10181 https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?p=10181&sid=5039399ce60... https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=840 https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=840 Or in 2015, where some forum users narrow down the year range and manufacturing code: > > It seems like the problematic discs were produced from 2006 to 2009 or so. I haven't found any DVDs from before or after those dates that exhibit these problems (even the original DVDs I bought in December of 2000 still look and play perfectly). https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=20399&sid=3238b0fac3f5ffc7bf0c6ee62cea9a1a https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=20399&sid=3238... If you buy a monitor and it fails after a week of use, should you be SOL? If the failure is due to a manufacturing defect, and not the user's treatment of the product or just the expected lifespan of that product class, consumer protection laws should protect the consumer.