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My son has scratched his toy story boxset which cost me 45.00, is there any substance you can use to remove scratches from DVD`s

Does T-Cut work ?

no idea about T-cut, sounds like it should work (which works by filling scratches with a polymer filler) but I don`t think it dries transparent. Personally, I use a skipdoctor, which lightly buffs the layer of the disc, but only really works on minor scratches. There is a machine you can buy that fixes scratches professionally, but I think it costs about £1000, so that`s probably out of the question. (Unless you`re a millionaire, if so, can you lend me a tenner?)

This item was edited on Sunday, 18th May 2003, 19:33

My son took his PS2 game into a local games shop, not a high street name as they don`t like the idea of repairing them for £2.50 when they can sell you a new one for £45, they kept it for 2 days and returned it as good as new, it was a guaranteed repair as well, all for the token price of £2.50 !

I imagine it would work equally well with dvd`s.

Cheers, Marty :-)

This item was edited on Sunday, 18th May 2003, 20:57

you could try thatzdvd, they repair dvds for £3.50 iirc, havent used myself but have heard good things (over at dvd forums, i "think" they are sponsors over there)

www.thatzdvd.com should be the address (might be co.uk) worth it if the disc is completely dead imo.

Give him a smacked bottom and tell him not to do it again!

the skipdoctor works and should help u out
www.skipdoctor.com for info on it
but hmv or virgin megastore should have the skipdoctor available

This item was edited on Monday, 26th May 2003, 01:07

I just sent the Second Disc of The Love Bug SE (That I only got 3 days ago) to be repaired by Thatzdvd after my DVD player went mental and cut a nice scratch in the plastic with its Laser! let you know what the results when I get it back *takes sledge hammer to DVD player in meantime grrrrr*

Came back today, recorded Delivery, looks great, no sign what so ever of the horrible deep scratch around the middle of the disc :D plays back great too... new DVD player arrived too, so no more scratched DVD`s hopefully.

It`s strange that it was the Toy Story Box-set, as mine is scratched too. The scratches are identical on both of the CD`s and they won`t even load. Thing is, I don`t know how it would`ve happened as they have been barely used. May try ThatzDVD...

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I have successfully used brass and silver polish i.e. Brasso and Silvo to remove minor scratches from both DVDs and CDs. Brasso seems a bit more abrasive than Silvo, but both seem to work okay.