I got in my hands today a DVD that had an annoying scratch that prevented my cheap dvd-player from reading past it, got at least 6 moments in the movie where the picture kept blurring in artifacts and the movie skipped annoyingly in microsecond bits after trying to read it for minutes.. So I decided to go and try a repair that I used once before to make one of my oldest cd-rom games readable. Toothpaste!
Of course I don't mean I just smeared some toothpaste on the dvd and jammed it back in, no. But I used a bit of the toothpaste on my finger and with a help of few drops of water with gentle pressure I smoothed the surface around the scratch enough for the laser to get past it. The whole dvd was 100% playable after wards. Sure, there is all sort of more professional solutions out there, surface grinders and solutions you can use to get the scratches out totally. But I'm way too cheap for that. Besides the toothpaste worked just fine and was available.
And on the plus side, now the dvd smells minty fresh...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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