[Dvdauthor-users] OT: Do DVD-Labels reduce liability of DVDs?

[Wolfgang W. <wol...@we...>]

Hi there,

just a quick OT-question:

Yesterday, my kids wanted to watch a DVD, I produced about a year ago. 
Just in the middle of the movie, the player started to stutter and 
shortly after stopped playing the DVD completely.
I put the DVD into my Linux-box and tried to play it with xine - with 
nearly the same result. In /var/log/messages, I got several bad 
sector failures and thus I think, the DVD is broken.  :-(

I know we watched the DVD completely without problems shortly after I 
made it and since that, it was stored untouched in a DVD-box. So I 
checked my other DVDs authored a year or more ago and found most 
of them with bad sectors, too! The failing ones were those, I 
decorated with a self-adhesive CD-Label. Those without labels played 
just fine, although those are the oldest, I have.
I'm using PRINCO DVD-Rs as media and Pearl-Labels (www.pearl.de).

So my conclusion is, that CD-Labels are bullshit as they dramatically 
reduce the lifetime of a CD/DVD. Has anyone else made this 
experience, too? 

thx
Wolfgang

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