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Posted on 3/24/21 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 6:41 pm
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Posted on 3/24/21 at 7:08 pm to D011ahbi11
The DVD player has to be capable of reading a DVD-R specifically.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 7:11 pm to D011ahbi11
Edit: Have you tried a computer as well, or just regular DVD players?
The shelf life of a burned DVD is only about 5-10 years. "Pressed" CDs/DVDs/BluRays last longer, but the [re]writable ones are not as stable. If you can't play them on multiple different players, the video is probably gone for good.
If you think some of them won't play because they are scratched, you can buff them with toothpaste. Do NOT scrub around the disc, instead wipe from the center out in straight lines.
There are some programs that try to read bad discs, just google "recover dvd". I have no idea what you should expect from these programs. There are also specialty data recovery shops that charge exorbitant fees for recovering data from failed drives and disks, but I doubt the videos are worth that much to you.
Good luck!
The shelf life of a burned DVD is only about 5-10 years. "Pressed" CDs/DVDs/BluRays last longer, but the [re]writable ones are not as stable. If you can't play them on multiple different players, the video is probably gone for good.
If you think some of them won't play because they are scratched, you can buff them with toothpaste. Do NOT scrub around the disc, instead wipe from the center out in straight lines.
There are some programs that try to read bad discs, just google "recover dvd". I have no idea what you should expect from these programs. There are also specialty data recovery shops that charge exorbitant fees for recovering data from failed drives and disks, but I doubt the videos are worth that much to you.
Good luck!
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 8:13 pm to Korkstand
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Have you tried a computer as well, or just regular DVD players?
Only tried my PS4 and a regular DVD player. I thought about trying a computer but My laptop doesn’t have a DVD player in it.
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The shelf life of a burned DVD is only about 5-10 years. "Pressed" CDs/DVDs/BluRays last longer, but the [re]writable ones are not as stable. If you can't play them on multiple different players, the video is probably gone for good.
Oddly I was able to get one of the oldest ones to play. It’s almost 20 years old.
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If you think some of them won't play because they are scratched, you can buff them with toothpaste. Do NOT scrub around the disc, instead wipe from the center out in straight lines.
Yea, I’m looking at some YouTube videos now on ways to get the scratches out, hope that I can get some of them to work.
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The DVD player has to be capable of reading a DVD-R specifically.
I ended up getting a couple of them to work, so I don’t think that’s the problem.
Appreciate the help from both of you guys
Posted on 3/25/21 at 5:50 am to Korkstand
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The shelf life of a burned DVD is only about 5-10 years.
Little known, but true fact.
Posted on 3/25/21 at 8:33 am to Lonnie Utah
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Little known, but true fact.
It's a reason that ripping CDs and DVDs was never sustainable....it was simply a bridge to the gap between Blockbuster and Netflix/Hulu/Google/Spotify/etc
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