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I have old music CD back in the 80's, and they can play just fine on my CD player. Those CD is a silver color Al plate on the surface.
Now, w/ some of the commercial DVD that I bought which are DVD9 format, the surface is not silver color. They seems to be a greenish color of shade on the surface, quite similar to a DVD+R surface color.
NOw, I was told the shell life of DVD+R, even if it's Taiyo Yuden, is only about 5 years, so how can that be? If I paid $20 on a commercial DVD, they'll be surface degradation in 5 years? are they using DVD+R media to burn them?
As I notice the old generation commercial DVD, (single layer DVD5) format, are silver color, just like music CD, whereas these DVD9 all look like DVD+R, does that mean in 5 years, there will be degradation on the surface of these commercial DVD that I bought?
Now, w/ some of the commercial DVD that I bought which are DVD9 format, the surface is not silver color. They seems to be a greenish color of shade on the surface, quite similar to a DVD+R surface color.
NOw, I was told the shell life of DVD+R, even if it's Taiyo Yuden, is only about 5 years, so how can that be? If I paid $20 on a commercial DVD, they'll be surface degradation in 5 years? are they using DVD+R media to burn them?
As I notice the old generation commercial DVD, (single layer DVD5) format, are silver color, just like music CD, whereas these DVD9 all look like DVD+R, does that mean in 5 years, there will be degradation on the surface of these commercial DVD that I bought?