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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but no disc manufacturing dates.

I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, if that doesn't work there are a few websites that will show you info about when the dvd was released

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry that wasn't clear, there are websites that let you look up info from the barcode