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CDs from high school (over 15 years)which I could not listen to are great again, DVDs that skip badly and ready for the trash are watchable again. Sometimes it takes 2-3 passes through the machine, (mine is electric) but it's great. I have even repaired some of the Netflix DVDs I have gotten.I don't hesitate to recommend the $ be spent for this. When my husband got this for my birthday, I was disappointed. However, since I have repaired CDs and DVDs, I am so grateful. I am sure, that until CD/DVD are obsolete, we will need a repair tool like this.
I had to run through the procedure about 5 times, but after that the game has played flawlessly. It doesn't remove scratches, but it improves them enough to make it readable. I've used this to fix about 6 of my Xbox video games. Unfortunately I tried this on a DVD and it made it unplayable. I don't know why. One was so badly scratched I didn't think it would ever play. But it has worked great on games for me.
I'm shocked at the negative reviews- the only thing I can think is that they did not use it properly. It requires a lot of water, and after the wheel has been used for a while it tends not to work well. I had this for years, and it saved many, many CD's, CDrom's, and DVD's which had some mild scratching. It is only something you do AFTER your CD isn't working, so there is no way it could really "ruin" it (as the CD is already ruined).
I have had just as much luck with toothpaste and hairspray. I made it through 10 disks before giving up (and my hands getting sore) the first night.The product essentially works like this: it comes with a tiny spray bottle, and you crank the handle as the disc turns VERY SLOWLY, and the wheel inside that is lined with a cloth smoothes the spray into the scratches.Effectiveness: It didn't fix my most-played discs, the ones with deeper scratches, but it did HELP with the rest (not good-as-new quality). I was psyched to fix the disks that made my stereo want to cry as they played one note over and over like a song at a bad rave. You have to spend too much time on each disk if you want to fix your whole collection, or even part of it in one sitting. Seriously.Overall I would say it isn't worth the money, time or effort, and it made my hands too sore too quickly.
I wanted to hear it tonight, so I put a thin coat of Vaseline on it, wiped enough off so that my player could recognize there was a CD inside it. To replace this soundtrack USED through Amazon would be $34 plus shipping, so repairing it is not out of the question. It played very well until the big bass notes, then skipped. This CD is really, really thrashed. So it's not fixed, it just has a bandaid on it. I have heard of people repairing CD's with peanut butter too (not the nutty brand though). I almost bought this product, but there are too many negatives attached to it.I went ahead and bought the $8.50 CD Fix It Kit (sold on Amazon)due to one 5 star rating.
It got stepped on a lot. If it doesn't work, I'll try something else. I have a movie soundtrack CD that got down on the floor of my car and ended up under the floormat.face down. If the Fix-It can make it good again, I'll report on the results.
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