| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have noticed on some of my older discs they are much darker golden/bronze like colour. Like my first release of True Lies, or my Die Hard Special Edition. Always wondered why this is. Assume it's different materials, but can't find anything when doing some research on the subject.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | It might in fact be a gold reflective layer, which is more expensive of course and probably not used for commercial discs any more. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's just the manufacturing materials used for the reflective layer.
It's basically the same way with CD's... There are Aluminum/Silver, Gold/Bronze, and even CD's that are totally "Black" on the play side. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hmm yes the old PS1 games where black. Difference being they are rom based discs i believe. Meaning they will lose there data in the next decade or so.
Thanks guys |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 553 |
| | Posted: | | | | Back in the early DVD days, the rule of thumb was gold discs were DVD-9s and silver ones were DVD-5s. At some point they started making silver DVD-9s and this rule got thrown out.  | | | My DVD/Blu-ray Collection
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