DVDs worst nightmare "DVD rot"

Some months ago i came across an article about CD rot. Now what is CD rot you ask well i had no idea either, i thought CD last for ever pretty much....well maybe not forever but for a very long time but to my surprise they may not be the case thanks to CD rot. Now i do not have many CDs but i do have alot of DVDs and after some further research i found the problem effects DVDs too. So that means my 100-200+ DVD movies are at risk as well as my Xbox 360 games which are also DVDs :cry:

CD rot or DVD rot is a phrase describing the tendency of CD or DVD disks to become unreadable due to physical or chemical deterioration. The causes of this effect vary from oxidation of the reflective layer to ultra-violet light damage and debonding of the adhesive used to stick the layers of the disc together.

I do not know if the problem effects the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats? And some of the big movie companys deny theres even a problem!

He is an article i dug up its an old one thou but explains the problem none the less: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804519345.html

CD/DVD/Blue-Ray rot is a bunch of malarkey. There have been zero documented cases of CD/DVD/Blue-Ray rot. I know nothing lasts forever but I guarantee they'll outlive you by at least a couple hundred years.

Heck there's more evidence of Nessie than CD/DVD/Blue-Ray rot.

I don't think this is anything serious and the problem may have already been averted. The article that you posted only listed a few specific DVD's and they were mainly defective because of the way they were manufactured. You mentioned it has to do with oxidation, well if our DVD's are part of a collection they mostly stay in their cases unless we take them out to watch them so it would take a long time for anything like that to happen.Strife88