Quoting rdodolak:

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Also, my original copy of Anchor Bay Entertainment's 2001 release of SpaceCamp had developed DVD rot years ago.

SpaceCamp (0-13131-14069-9)

I remember buying that DVD brand new (with the top security seal intact and all) and the disc would not even load in multiple players. The play surface of the disc was also an odd color.

The same exact thing happened with The Stepford Wives from Anchor Bay, which was also released in 2001.

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Boogie Nights, the old New Line snapper release.  It worked about a decade ago when I last watched it, but a few months back I tried to play it and no DVD player I had could read the disk.

Came across another disc today which appears to have developed disc rot.  The DreamWorks original DVD release for The Mexican (UPC: 6-6706878222-6) which appears to have been manufactured by Technicolor.

EDIT:  Whew, I didn't need to replace the disc.  I was looking at the tags in my DVD Profiler database and remembered at some point I had two copies (purchased a duplicate).  The second copy is still good.

The good copy has a silver appearance where as the bad on has a gold appearance.

Anchor Bay had a series of discs in about 2001 that had bad lacquer applied to them; I'm thinking that Crest National was the culprit.  Among those titles:

Frankenstein Created Woman
Heathers
The Witches
and probably a couple more that I can't remember.

They pretty much all rotted within the first year if they were going to rot at all.

Anchor Bay had a replacement program for them for a while, but they no longer have the rights to the Hammer titles so you're out of luck there.

The only DVD I have which "rotted" (that I know of  ) is Warner Brothers' Altered States (1980) [085391107620]. Here's hoping that Blu-rays last forever! 

thanks (for the update to this inactive post of 26 months).. there are many versions of this disc on the market.,  I checked mine with disc Id of 7A1B286290AAD245 [SUPERMAN_II_RICHARD_DONNER_CUT]  from the steelcase boxset  and it opens fine.. 

Disc rot can occur under many situations and maybe sitting in a cd tray for long period time subjected to heat  may have contributed to this ..

overall glad to see that if anyone does come across disc rot  or dvds that don't play - to remember to update that info to this thread ......

My  Lady In White Directors Ed. upc # 790594524029    stopped working and it was kept in fairly ideal environment.,  wanted to contact  Elite Entertainment to get a replacement  but I believe they have gone out of business as there was no contact information at all on the Net ..

Disc 1 of Metallica: S & M has also become unreadable.