Old DVD's are pixelating?

[jlburn07]

I have made many copies of movies, and they all played OK for the first few times. But now, after a month or two they start pixelating after the movie has been playing for about an hour or so. This only happens to copies, orignal bought DVD's still play fine, and it occurs with different DVD discs used for burning. Has anyone else had this problem and or know why it is happening?

[fritzi93]

I can think of several possibilities:

1) Crap media. Use DVDinfoPro or similar to find the media ID, then compare to the list at nomorecoasters.
2) You perhaps used full size paper labels? If so, don't.
3) You used a transcoder when backing up and "overcompressed".

Others no doubt can come up with more.

[grannyGeek]

Also, it *might* be your player.

I had a couple of players that were wearing out, they still played commercial disks, but couldn't handle burned disks.
When I got a new player, no more problems!

I'm still an amateur, but one month seems awfully fast for your burned disks to fail. Some of my 4-year old mid-grade media have started to fail, but good media are still going strong.

If you are using clear jewel cases, be sure to store your disks in darkness, light will make them deteriorate very fast, even indirect light on a shelf in the corner.