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Hello guys, I have about 50 Taiyo Yuden DVDs I bought ~10 years ago, it is still unopened and I didn't burn anything on them.

If I burn stuff on them now will it be in good quality, like new DVDs? Or does the quality degrade even if not used?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still have around 20-25 Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs left from around 12-13 years ago that I still occasionally burn with no issues.

I so miss the days of buying them and BD-R discs from supermediastore.com, which is unfortunately no more.