When DVD's go bad

I have read that you can clean them with a humid gentle towel .

 

Send them to Lamour I heard he can get the scratches out with his teeth. Also Noah has some special cream he rubs on them to get out scratches...

 

That's one thing I absolutely hate about DVD's

At least a tape lets you see something. It's either a go or a no-go with those little plastic discs.

 

PeterS

If the plastic on the read surface is scratched, you can try one of those scratch removing kits. I haven't used any so cannot comment on well they work. If the disc is not scratched, the foil the movie is printed on is damaged and may require a return to the point of purchase.

Alternatively, you can try playing the disc in a different player. Older DVD drives may have shabby error correction capabilities that can render marginal discs unplayable. Newer players (generally) have better ECC capabilities and can handle some fairly beat up discs.

 

My Sony DVD player is too sensitive. The discs that skip around on it will play without problems on lesser models including an old Dell PC.

 

I've had some good success with those scratch repair devices. My kid's DVDs and playstation games get pretty beat up and most of the time they can be repaired. If they're just dirty, clean them with water and a soft towel from the middle of the DVD towards the outside. Don't rub the towel around in a circle - it can make it worse.

 

Exactly what I had in mind about crap early players. My first DVD player was a Sony, and aside from being so large and damned heavy that I needed to use a forklift to set it up, required mostly perfect discs in order to get good playback. Even then, it would crash or just plain sh*t its bits at the drop of a hat. I've got a Toshiba somethingorother now and that thing will read anything.

 

Not so sure about that.

I have some BETA tapes with F1 races I recorded from the mid-80's on them, we tried in a few Beta machines, NOTHING shows up in any of them except one - but it's Imola in 85 or 86 when Johannson runs out of gas while leading in a Ferrari...

 

Get a new dvd player. We just replaced our old one and all the prior movies which had problems now work great... Its pretty difficult to thrash the dvd itself. Our kids play the same dvd for months, scratch the hell out of them, and they work fine...

 

go wipe with barbed wire.

 

fixed

 

Maxell makes a repair machine I thing $30-$40 bucks. I've fixed dozens of DVD's that I otherwise would have tossed due to scratches. I think I picked it up at Target or BestBuy.

 

Apparently, ya didn't read the part of your quote I "fixed."

LEMME HIGHLIGHT IT THIS TIME.

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Mine still work. I have about 60 old Beta tapes that I made from between 84 and 86. I transferred them to DVD two years ago. They all still play well.

I have some pretty cool stuff on them too. Lots of Miami Vice, St Elsewhere and Magnum PI original broadcasts with those funny 80's commercials.