Recently I read a story on Neowin about DVD rot, I was quite worried about this seeing as I all but abandoned my VHS collection and moved to DVD.
I, of course, forwarded this story to every one I know and someone finally sent me this article from The Digital Bits.
We"ve been getting a lot of e-mails from people who are suddenly worried about "DVD rot" affecting their movie collections. It seems a recent article in The Sydney Morning Herald addressed the issue, claiming that it affects between 1 and 10% of all DVD disc"s. First to explain... "DVD rot", or any kind of optical disc rot, is something that can occur when the bond between the different layers of a disc fail, a process called delamination. This tends to happen most frequently with rental discs, that are put through extreme wear and are often poorly handled.