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Originally Posted by vdomini
Please stop scaryng me like that lol  ... |
Sorry to revisit the issue and scare you some more, but it looks like the users Mage was talking about might have been correct. I did think that maybe it was just another urban legend thingy, like the one about the CD-ROMs shattering some years ago, but apparently not...
The issue has been around almost a year and has cropped up on a few forums
here being one and a post from another, less useful site:
"Definitely. The risk of shattering discs is lower for DVDs (and I assume for Blu-Rays too) than for CDs since they don't reach quite the same ridiculous rotational speeds but they're still spun pretty fast. A crack could lengthen until it reaches breaking point and then BANG! the disc fails and becomes shards of plastic embedded inside your very expensive paperweight.
However if you really want to play it, you could try and get one of the hub-strengthening stickers places like video shops use."
Tread carefully people