How I revived my old DVD collection with nearly perfect picture for free

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a collection of DVDs stowed away somewhere in a drawer or binder, with each recordable or rewritable disc housing a 2000s-era home video (or several dozen). DVD archival was the de facto method of preserving and playing back home videos during the camcorder era, at a time before smartphones and virtual camera rolls came to rule the roost.