Sony to replace 18,000 damaged DVD+RW (DPW47L1) discs

July 10, 2003

Customers of the Sony DRU-500AX and/or
DRX-500ULX DVD recorders might have received damaged DVD+RW discs with their
recorder. The discs included in the packages of these drives contain a memory
layer that may oxidize after some time. The discs become unreadable and/or
unwriteable due to this malfunction.

Sony
said it will replace some DPW47L1 discs as some of them may not be
able to record information or have data read off them because the disks'
memory layer may oxidize after a certain period of
time