DVDs? Cant be that old.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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DVD sucks, its propertiary and bloated af. Decrypt that sh!t and backup to your HDD.
Sic. This made my day.
Also, early 2000's. :)
12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.
And to think Nana manga still haven’t returned from hiatus after all this time……
2006ish?
Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that's when I was watching them.
Yup, it's full of late 90's and 2000's anime.
I don't think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.
If it makes it more illegal I'm all for it. :)
Those DVD’s look fly.
Planetes, Gungrave... nice taste :)
Heh, thanks! :)
I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.
DVDs didn't have that issue, fortunately.
In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it's mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there's a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.
Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.
No worries, I had many kind of CD-specific pens back then.
BECAUSE YOU SNIFFED THEM! ADMIT IT!
...we all did it.
Hey, who told you that?
I had a binder full of video CD's because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.
And then there were four disks Stephen King films.
And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(
Don't say things like that, I haven't checked them for a long time. :(
will check them after moving out phase though.
You're looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you're done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It's easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you're like, wow, do you remember when... And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don't be like that. Don't be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.
I knew they don't have a long lifespan but didn't know it would be that short. I guess I'll see how they're holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.
Yeah don't make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think "ah, whatever, it's all online now anyway", because before you know it, no it ain't, and you just lost your last copy to mites.
Aren't read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?
Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.
Unless you use them only once, probably yes.
The fabled write-only system
Only write. No read!
I like me stone tablets.
Ok, now listen to this gif
Lain. Nice.
Fansubs?
Of course!
I love that old stuff. Nice!
Yeah, those were the days!
Lain. I want to see it again to not understand it again.
24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔
Not that old, this was more of a recap archive (CDs to DVDs). Hint: There is Monochrome Factor's first episode. No idea why I didn't wait for it to be finished first though.
I uh... Have several of those legit, after watching them other ways