DVD Disk quality
Apologies if I have posted before on this - I think I have but cannot 'search' for it.
I am becoming more and more concerned about the quality of DVD disks, particularly at the cheap end of the market. I have a program which tells me the ACTUAL manufacturer of my disks (often not the 'branded' name!), and I can check their 'quality' on another site. A large number of them are rated as 'landfill' with a 'success rate' of 40-60%!
I was talking to a 'DVD fanatic' friend the other day about this and he said he was concerned with what I said and would check his 'library'. He found about 80% of his disks were either unreadable or not reading correctly, including the wedding photos of his daughter (fortunately still on hard drive) and a large number of promotional DVDs for his company. OK - he had not bought at the top end of the market, but this is a serious problem. What value do we place on these disks as a backup media let alone for storing photos or film?