Warner Bros. DVD Rot Issues...

[Dyland]

As highlighted in this video: (some brief PG-13 language)


Warner Bros. DVDs from circa late 2000s have become susceptible to disc rot. (likely an issue stemming from a problematic pressing plant)

Thankfully, none of my Scooby-Doo DVDs are affected. However, a couple of my Super Friends DVDs do exhibit the tell-tale yellowing. (no pinholes yet, and they still work last I checked, thank goodness) Just a great reminder to double check your DVDs, and make backups! Such a shame that various Warners titles (some quite rare) are subject to this.

Just wanted to share & warn everybody. A lot of the What's New DTVs & various season/episode releases stem from this time period. Hopefully everyone's collection is okay!

[Scoobster96]

Luckily no problems yet, but the WNSD series desperately needs a rerelease/update on DVD or better yet Blu-Ray! As far as I know the DVD releases of the series have been in the cropped 4:3 aspect ratio as opposed to its original 16:9 presentation, but if there has been a release with the proper aspect ratio physically please correct me. I also hole heartily agree that everything that WB owns that's five years or older should absolutely be handled by the Warner Archive, they seem to be some of the only people in the entirety of WBD who seem to know what their doing and deeply care about the product they put out.

[Ark]

My DVD copy of Chill Out, Scooby-Doo has major issues (won't load menu, won't load bonus scene, etc.) and it fits into this time period when they were having lots of production problems. Thankfully, it was re-released on various winter sets and has an HD version on digital now. This one would be a no-brainer to release a Blu-ray of for Christmastime! Some of the potentially affected titles have Blu-ray releases which is nice (Loch Ness, Samurai Sword, Aloha) but it's worrisome that not all of them do and these are the ones that could go bad first.

Also, I'm sad that the Blu-ray TNSDMovies release messed up one of my favorite episodes with the steamboat and never fixed it. They even fixed it on iTunes, so they're well aware that they did a bad release. I wish Warner Archive had been allowed to do this instead.