DVD care & scratch removal

[Mark Metcalf]

I used to clean discs gently, but lately with a scratched or smudged disc, I apply window cleaner, and rub hard with a clean cloth. I had good results.
Should I stop with the hard rubbing?

[aox]

I can't figure out a good way to clean Blu's either. They are so incredibly sensitive. And I thought DVD/CD's were bad.

[mfunk9786]

Should I stop with the hard rubbing?

There's a wonderful joke in there but I won't stoop to that level. I won't.

[starmanof51]

Should I stop with the hard rubbing?

If you do it right, you'll know exactly when to stop.

I stooped for you, mfunk. Hopefully we can move on now.

[domino harvey]

Am I a satanist for open-mouth hot air breathing on them and rubbing them with a clean, soft t-shirt in a circular motion? Works for me.

No, and I feel like Homer Simpson rubbing oranges against his forehead: "You mean there's another way?"

[swo17]

This is probably a stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway: I'm having shelves built into a small nook in a wall to store DVDs. My wife wants to go with what she calls a more modern look, where the sides and back of the shelf area are the wall itself. So the DVDs would rest on wood but would come up against the bare wall on the sides. Does anyone else store DVDs or books like this? I'm slightly paranoid that wall paint could wear off on my precious digipaks.

[Mr Sausage]

This is probably a stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway: I'm having shelves built into a small nook in a wall to store DVDs. My wife wants to go with what she calls a more modern look, where the sides and back of the shelf area are the wall itself. So the DVDs would rest on wood but would come up against the bare wall on the sides. Does anyone else store DVDs or books like this? I'm slightly paranoid that wall paint could wear off on my precious digipaks.

They'll be fine. I have two book shelves that are just long boards screwed into the wall with the wall itself acting as the back, and I've never had a problem. I also have friends with your exact form of shelving (albeit for books only) and they've never complained.

[Jonathan S]

I'm slightly paranoid that wall paint could wear off on my precious digipaks.

That's exactly what happened to some of my CD cases (mainly cardboard slipcases) in the 1990s, though I think the anaglypta wallpaper at the rear of the shelves was mainly to blame, and possibly the type of paint.

[Matt]

You could put small stops at the back of the shelves so that the cases rest against those and not the wall. They could even be just 1/4" thick. I've seen that in libraries quite often.

[swo17]

Thanks, those are good suggestions. Stops on the back should work nicely, but I'm still wondering what to do on the sides...

EDIT: On the sides, I think I'll just place something other than a DVD against the wall, like a small DVD-case-shaped block of wood or an empty DVD case.

[Peacock]

Sigh, I received my big B&N order today and noticed one of the disks in the Human Condition box was loose, I opened it up and found that Disk 3 had a few pretty bad scratches. So I tried the Brasso method which got rid of most of them, but it's added it's own tiny little scratches moving outwards from where i dried the Brasso off using a microfibre cloth. I guess i'll have to wait till I watch the film till I know if it's going to skip or not; sigh, if only life was easy.