John Alderson
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2001
- Messages
- 564
I don't think we can eliminate the possiblity of accidental damage, no matter how careful we are with our discs. Granted, if it happens at the layer change that's probably not the case. I have yet to have any DVD's go bad on me (~250 all told, including TV sets, starting in 1998), but I've had several CD's stop working (maybe 4 out of 300), and I'm anal about caring for them. However, when I closely inspect the bad CD's, there is frequently a curved little mark somewhere on the disc, as if the damage happened inside a player. I suspect an old CD-ROM drive I used to have, or maybe it was something else I didn't realize.