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Old 31-01-05, 06:03 PM
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Salvaging a DVD
I have a diving DVD that had to be removed from a player with a modicum of force. It now has a nice collection of surface scratching and will not play. You can’t feel any of the scratches, but there are a few. Anyone any ideas how to try save it, it’s shagged anyway so nothing to loose!
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We had a Playstation disc that got scratched to buggery. We had a look around the net and found a service from Ebay that promised to be able to restore discs. I think it cost around 5 quid per disc. They sent us some disc holders and we sent the discs to them. Worked a treat, I believe they add a new layer to the discs or something and gave it a bit of a polish. Good as new.

Have a look here this is the sort of thing

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...+scratch&meta=
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I have heard that you can use metal polish like "brasso",
to rejuvinate cd's not tried it though!
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Hi

There are companies that can recover knackered dvds, games, cds etc. I was approached recently by a company wanting to sell me the machines that do it.

Have google for people like these

http://www.scratchdoctor.co.uk/

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Depending on how shagged it is you may be able to get it working by polishing with a lint free cloth, but always polish radially - ie from the centre out, not round and round.

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Cheers all, Andy I think I will give scratchdoctor a go, they seem to give themselves a good write up
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Just make sure you check them out properly, as I've never used them so its not a recommendation or anything. Let us know how you get on.

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