Comments on: How to Clean DVDs

on 1/25/2008 I use alcohol.

on 1/22/2008 thanks for your useful comments it is better that you add videos related to every comments the way videojug site do although, i think your comments cover more fields.try it.

on 1/22/2008 What is the "cleaning liquid"?

on 1/22/2008 If you have severly scratched dvd's, (on the bottom side only) you can occasiaonally repair them with car/automotive wax, and then buff them smoothe, however, i only recommend this, if the dvd is beyond being repaired with the method above, in which case the dvd would most likely last long enough to be copied and thats it(the wax would become pliable in a dvd player for the length of a movie), even so there may be parts of the disc that arent fully repairable, and again like i said, this repair method should be tried as last resort before you throw a disc in the trash.. because if it doesnt work, it was headed to the trash can anyways

on 1/22/2008 Thanks for the tip. What about cleaning the DVD player? Is that essential and how often?

on 1/22/2008 There are commercial kits available for cleaning cd's and dvd's as well as disc type games. I have one and use it all the time, I have a 3 yr old that goobers up dvd's, I clean them and play them over and over again.

on 1/22/2008 I heard about dvd scratch mending.. Hope that works for all..

on 1/22/2008 I have a few DVDs I'll have to try this on!

on 1/22/2008 The article didn't mention which direction to wipe the disc. I am pretty sure that you are supposed to wipe from the center to the outside edge, instead of around the DVD in a circular motion. If you make a scratch on a DVD that is perpendicular to the written data, it is much easier for an optical reader to not get stuck on the scratch.