Do You repair your own scratched DVD's or do you throw them out?

I will have to try that one on our BAmbi one. FOr it skips about half way through. thanks!

yeah i have heard of toothpaste but never have had to really use it.. thankfully my cds seem to work even though abused a lot

I try to repair my own dvd's, I'm very frugal so I will try to fix one before tossing it in the trash. Actually, none of my dvds are scratched at the moment. CD's and video games are another story though. I never knew you could use furniture polish, or car wax to repair scratches. Now I learned of the tooth paste trick from a child, her dad does it. I can't do that one because we don't use the white tooth paste, since we only have the gel kind. Now in the past we have spent money on the repair kits, and honestly they don't always work. So it would be probably better to have someone do it for you that knows what they are doing. I mean, your dealing with a 20-60 dollar game, 20-40 dollar movie, etc. What is 4 dollars to get it fixed, when you spend 20-60 on a repair kit and you do it wrong. So your out 40-120 dollars on a game + the repair kit, 40-100 dollars on the movie + repair kit.

I did not know that you could repair them but so far the only time I ran into a damaged DVD was with a rental.

It depends on the severity of the scratched DVD. Most DVD's nowadays come with a special coating to prevent scratches that will prevent the DVD from playing altogether. While others are made to scratch easier and thus, the consumer either has to discard of replace. I used to collect DVD movies, etc. Then I stopped because no matter how hard I attempted to prevent them from getting damaged in such a manner, I simple couldn't stop the scratches from getting on my DVD's. Thus I stopped buying them altogether, now I have a subscription to a DVD service that delivers them to my door, verses having to do differently. I let the company deal with the scratched DVD's and don't bother to even try to purchase DVD's any more.

No I never throw away some of my defective DVD's or CD's unless after my own way to fix it first. What I use to do is wash with a normal clean water and let it dry on a clean cloth, let it dry itself (no wiping). When it would completely dry, try to play it but if same problem still occurs, that would be time to shoot it on my garbage can.. Thanks for the link you've given, that was an additional tip I knew from you..cheers

I am glad I read this article. I didn't know all the different ways to get the scratchs off of dvds and cds. You wrote very good information about restoring disks instead of them being scratched up and unable to play.

I did not know we could repair scratched CD's. Very interesting. Thanks for the link. I am going to read it right now.

I didn't know they could be repaired. I'll be interested in taking a look at your article.

I put my DVDs in the case when I am not using them ....an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

i throw my scratched dvd out i don,t repair them.i didn,t think they could be repaired.kool i will read and see how

We have done both. We had some kind of a kit we bought one time, and it worked pretty good, it did not fix every CD with problems, but it did work to fix quite a few. But when the kit was all used up we did not purchase another one. We are just really, really careful with our CD's now and our kids are all old enough where they don't play with them and scratch them up.

I think you can buy a DVD repair machine at a local record store, but I was told thay don't work very well. Good luck!

I haven't thrown them out because of that. Usually, the scratches arent THAT THAT bad.. they just skip a second or so.. lol, but i havent come across a repair method. The methods on the link seem they might work, i will have to just try them :]

I try not to have to throw disc out. They are so expensive to have to replace especially music disc and software disc. I do have a Disc repair kit that I bought to repair disc whenever I can. Unless they get broken or are beyond repair. I have found that it is always best to make copies of all the disc I buy and use the copies so that the original disc remains new like. I didn't know that it could damage your DVD player when you get scratches on your disc. I read the link and think everyone should also because you have some great info on saving disc and money. I have printed the info off..so I can remember. Thanks for the informative information I appreciate it.