Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...

Damaged DVDs are epidemic among online movie-renting services, which makes the Repair Pro sound indispensable for most of us. Repair Pro promises a 98-percent success rate cleaning up and repairing ...

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The removal of fingerprints and scratches from the non-label side of CDs and DVDs. Although lasers can read a disc with minor scratches, heavy scratches will cause read errors. The lowest-end repair ...

The portable nature of laptops make them very useful, but also more susceptible to damage. Repairing the damage is often also costly because all the laptop components are integrated. The LCD screen of ...

With so much riding on optical discs—your games, movies, backups—you need to have a good repair system. We tested five popular cleaning and repair kits on deeply scratched CDs; they all clean well, ...

The Good: Simple setup and operation; portable and easy to store when not in use; no training needed; fantastic results for discs with anywhere from minimal to extensive surface scratches. The Bad: ...

I've been wondering for some time about the effect of scratches and fingerprints on my game discs, and I've just bought a large HDD so want to rip my older games (e.g. Daggerfall, Strife, Jedi Knight) ...

I don't put my CDs or DVDs up after I use them typically. I tend to stack them in a pile on my desk or on the shelf behind my desk. I guess the kids learned the same thing from me since they tend to ...