about 10 years ago, first reports of Disc Rot in factory pressed silver discs emerged in public; and so major record lables agreed a replacement program for affected product from known problematic pressing plants..
I already had a shoe box full of CD singles that were 'going off'..
mostly CBS.. I meant to get round to replacing them.. but life got in the way..
About 2 years ago I read that the replacement program was soon to be closed down.. so I travelled back to my mums house were I was storing boxes of several thousand commercial CDs..
Over most of a day I sifted out so many 'rotted' CD Albums that I could fill a large storage/removal cardboard box with 'em.. hundreds of the rotted bastards..
mostly Warner product.. and a hell of a lot of very expensive US & Japanese import Warner pressings..
symptoms.. brown to goldish discoloration.. and/or pin prick holes or even worse lace like decay in the metal playing surface..
So despairing..
and agin, just when I was in email communication with the last industry contact who could sort out replacement.. some one else in my family died..
and by the time i could get back round to caring about CDs.. too effin late !!!
..oh.. and this summer I sorted out all teh DVDs I've burnt in the last few years..
and I've got a whole box of manky looking discolured memorex DVDs..
darent even bother looking through my boxes of home made CDs..