As usual, the answer is alcohol.
This DVD burned fine, but didn’t read. I pressed my nail into the side to separate the 2 disc sections, then played around with it*, and finally stripped both the purple dye and reflective layer with isopropyl alcohol.
*I of course tried what it would do if re-inserted into the DVD drive. Single half wouldn’t spin up. The spindle didn’t have good enough grip. Placing the half with reflective layer back on top surprisingly made it read as a blank DVD, showing its (past) properties.
Trying to burn it again, unsurprisingly, resulted in I/O error.
DVDs were so cool. Sad they dont get used anymore :/
I use em for encryptes backups of password managers/encryption keys.
Id love to see some sorta fantasy standard for hobbiests and indie artists that puts 1080p av/1 over flac on DVD. Maybe uses modern web tech for menus? (I know no one likes it, but its the best write-once run-anywhere GUI standard humanities got right now.)
You can do crazy things with modern video codecs. I’ve seen a perfectly serviceable 360p encode of shrek my friend made that was small.enough to fit on a gameboy video cart.
You could probably make a DVD quality video CD format. Its asinine.
