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14th Aug 2022, 4:30 AM
	Break-In Master 🍰 Member since Dec 2013 251 Points	I've had a few DVDs over the last 20-some years that just erase themselves and nobody seems to know why. About 20 years ago, I bought a DVD from someone on eBay. It was one that he (or someone he knew, most likely) recorded themselves. It had a very hard to find movie featuring Spike Jones, which was why I wanted it. His band played at least two songs and I don't think I've ever heard them played anywhere before or since. I played the DVD when I first got it and it worked perfectly fine! A few months later, I had the time to record those two songs to hard drive so, I put the DVD back into my computer. It played fine for the first 3 to 5 minutes and then it just died! There was nothing else on the DVD!! On my next attempt a few days/weeks later, I put the DVD in and it was completely blank!! I asked a computer geek friend of mine that specializes in video to see if he could find anything on it or anything wrong with it. Everything he tried pulled up the same results: the disc was blank!! As far as I recall, this was the first time I'd ever seen a coloured DVD or CD, instead of being silver, like all the others (bar 1) I've seen, it was blue!! (The other one I saw was green.) A few months ago, I decided to try to watch all the Warner Brothers cartoons I have in release order. On the boxed set they came in (the 24-disc Golden Collection vols. 1 - 6) they're in a fairly random order. I bought the set about 10 years ago and have seen it at least twice since then. This third time around, one of the DVD's would only play part way through! If I recall correctly, the next time I played it a couple days later, it wouldn't play at all!! The computer told me the disc was blank!! I didn't erase them and they were NEVER kept near any strong magnetic or electrical devices! So, how could they lose all their information?