I take extra special care of all my DVDs. So none of them have rot... yet. Thank God for that. But the reason I do this is mainly because I have herd of such a thing happening to DVD's before. And now that I see proof that it does happen, you better believe I'm going to be treating my DVDs like children. Oh, wait, that would kill the DVD. Well, I'll treat them better then how I treat others. And trust me, thats a good thing. But I check the movies once a month to make sure that they don't have 'rot'. And right now, although it hasn't been a month, I'm checking Silence of the Lambs. Well, it's working fine. Thank God. But even if it wasn't, I always have it on VSH.

I dont think it's the conditions you keep them in or the way you treat them, that causes the rot, it's the faulty manufacturing process, dodgy glue, or can be the ink thats printed on the top side of the disk that reacts with the disk itself.

no mater how well you look after your disks, if they're gona rot, they're gona rot:(

I've read, things have improved though with the manufacturing now, tends to be old disks that have trouble.