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Ok this gonna be kinda of like what u did but I used furniture polish like pledge or some other store brand. It helped on some of my Cd’s and DVD’s and the really bad ones it did not.
I’ve heard that using dryer sheets works. I haven’t tried it though. To save money I kept an old VCR. The VCR tapes don’t scratch or brake easily. Plus they are super cheap at garage sales or flea markets. All of the Disney stuff is $1 or $2 per tape. We have pretty much everything. lol
I now know what my kids next since fair experiment will be ;). Thanks for the info
I’m buying some asap! We have tons of dvds that are scratched
I have a netflix subscription and I inevitably get DVD’s that skip or just flat out won’t play. I’ve had the best luck using vaseline and buffing it in really well. It doesn’t work 100% of the time, but it’s worked better than furniture polish and toothpaste. I have some ‘scratch out’ in the garage that I will try next time, though. Thanks for the great info!!!!
i jsut have the movie channels and dvr everything that way it eliminates the need for dvds and solutions to fix them:)
Any good paste wax will do the trick but I must admit, I haven’t tried the scratch out.
When I was a teenager, I used to work at a hardware store. We sold something called “Glass Wax” which was meant to wash your windows really high up and then repel dirt so you don’t have to wash your windows all the time. Ever see “Coming To America” and notice when they’re washing the windows it looks dry rather than wet? That’s Glass Wax. It fills in dings and usually buffs very clean.
Anyway, CDs were fairly new then and expensive at times, my music professor said that glass wax was your best bet. The way CDs work is that the light shines down on the disc and then back up to be read. You want that surface clean and flat so that it can be easily read. If you have a gouge, it’s usually at a v type angle, and that makes the laser reflect at an angle and you get skipping.
What you want is to fill in that v so that it reflects back upwards, but also still is reflective, and that takes care of the skipping. He recommended the glass wax, for CDs with scratches.
I would guess that DVDs would be the same.
Another thing to keep in mind, if it’s a Disney DVD, make sure you enter it in the movie rewards club. Even if you don’t have the code, enter it. If it gets scratched beyond repair, you can send in the disc and pay a minimal fee to replace it. 🙂