The best way to fix a scratched DVD.

Use some liquid soap , i used the soap that we use to wash the dishes,, works great!!

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Liquid soap?! I'd think that would ruin it.

Now, if you want to remove the nasty, gluey residue left behind by price stickers (particularly those put on Hollywood Video's used and for sale DVDs - and other places) on the DVD case, rub SUNTAN LOTION on the spot where it's nasty. Rub hard and the residue should come off. It'll clean your DVD cases for a perfect collection.

It works on cardboard cover sleeves, too!

Prayer.

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Stem cell research.

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SEX!

What do you think the holes in DVDs are for?

I have Sin City, but it's got a scratch on it and now I can't play the scene where Jackie Boy and his friends bust into her apartment

Any ideas? Real ones?

Buy a new copy.

For dirty, finger-printed DVDs: dishwashing liquid (mild, for hand washing) seems to work fine with warm water.

Big scratches, I dunno. I talked with our Public Library a few months ago. Their Ken Burns Civil War set had two unplayable discs with ugly circular scratches. The guy at the desk said they would "polish" the discs - but he couldn't explain the actual technique.

Sure enough, a couple of weeks later, I borrowed the set again. The scratches were still visible, but played fine. I will have to talk to someone in their mends dep't to find out what they do.

Video stores should have an answer, too, I suppose.

lmao on all these replies.
If you have a DVD burner on your computer, or know anyone else who does, just make a copy from it. It may not play, but it should save just fine. That is what I do, and it has yet to fail me.
Oh, and cross your fingers!

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Buy a scratch kit from the video shop, I found they work really well

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haha When I say "It may not play." I meant the "original" may not, but your burned copy still will.

It might sound horribly obvious but - buy a new DVD player.

I can remember my first, bus-sized, Sony. It cost as much as a perfectly acceptable used car and took a hissy fit when asked to play anything other than a virginal major label release.

The player I've got now (£40 quid from Lidl, in case you think I actually spent money on it) can cope with anything: scratches, dust, fingerprints, nuclear fallout.

Anything.

Mine too

Tacitus said: "...buy a new DVD player."

Or not. Our new costly Jamo freaks out on fingerprints or a dandruff flake.

Our older cheapos (Panasonic and JVC) soldier on, playing beater DVDs, but the best is our little Samsung portable. I swear, that machine will play an Eggo waffle if it'll fit.

Don't buy one of those then, MoFos.

I wouldn't buy a DVD player now without first consulting VideoHelp.com.

There exist these little mechanical devices that you snap your DVD (or CD) into and turn a crank (and turn it, and turn it, and turn it...) and it buffs scratches out of the plastic. I've borrowed one from a friend, not seen one in a store yet, but she said she got it at Blockbuster or Target or somewhere. It worked well.

ETA: like this a-here:

Yep, I bought the Danish Jamo as a leap in the dark -- a clearance unit on sale locally at 1/3 the sticker price. Before I bought, a fast search on the net revealed a bunch of European reviews highly praising the A-10 speaker group in the package, but zip-diddy about the player's performance. VideoHelp still has no ratings: maybe I'll be the first contributor?

Anyway, the speakers are truly excellent, and worth more than I paid for the package, so I'll be happy to slip a reliable JVC player into the system someday.

That looks like a freakin' pencil sharpener. These are for DVDs? If they put these on the market, DVD prices better drop down to 50 cents each, just like a pencil.

Jaysus, those scare me!

I used to have something like that for grating cheese and ricing spuds. And knuckles...