Digital Innovations SkipDr DVD and CD Motorized Disc Repair System

I started with the hand cranked version as it was cheaper and I was skeptical after reading all of the reviews. I figured if it could help even just 3-4 movies that would have otherwise needed to just be replaced then it was worth it, it worked great after I got the hang of how to use it and I deviated from the directions a little. I decided to invest in this one as we have a couple hundred, more or less, kids movies. This one is even better because I am hands free so it can keep going while I spray it to keep it wet. The wetter the better! Thats where I deviated from the directions, they say to "spray lightly then let it make 2 evolutions around then take it out and wipe then buff" I started by experimenting on a couple of disks that I knew were not fixable because the backs of the disks were scratched as bad as the front. I don't like how little spray they include but any spray made for cleaning eyeglasses (the kind thats safe for plastic lens') works just as well. If it gets even a little dry it will make the disk hazy with the sanding, if it's kept really wet it works great! I spray heavily before starting then keep spraying the top as it comes around to go down again. I do not wait for it to make 2 evolutions before spraying again, I usually let it go around 3-4x this way depending on how scratched it is. Then I clean and buff as it says and if it needs more I do it again. Whatever you do don't be frugal with the spray! Better to use more than needed than not enough. To finish up after everything I buff it with an extremely small amount of liquid wax. Only a drop on the cloth for the whole disk (That step isn't necessary, I just like it personally). I did go ahead and invest in a power cord as I have no interest in keeping up with batteries. They have them on amazon for $5-8 or so. Definitely worth picking up if you plan on using this a lot as I do. I moved the wheel and stuff from my other SkipDr to this one to save the new one for extra. No, this isn't something you can use if you want to be able to sell disks as it does leave faint markings but its great for personal use especially if you have kids that are just now getting old enough to understand proper disk care. I have improved everything I have used this on that was salvageable. Most of them run smooth all the way through now. A small number still skip or freeze in a place or 2 for a second or so then keep going. Those were the disks that used to either just get stuck and stay frozen or had to be jumped way ahead to keep them going before. So they are still greatly improved! Both of these things have already paid for themselves 2-3x over at this point! For us, for our kids movies, this was most definitely worth it! The wheels also last longer than they are said to last if you keep the disk really wet and take the wheel off and gently rinse it off every once in a while I have noticed. I have used it on 36 movies so far and am still using the wheel from the first hand cranked SkipDr on this model. I haven't used it on anything but the kids DVDs so I can't say how well it does for games or bluray or anything as those items have always been off limits to the kids handling so they are all in great condition. They do watch the DVDs in the bluray player though and it has no issues reading them.

This is a great idea, a hope to restore an important DVD. It has an abrasive wheel that creates radial buffing of the DVD ... which is the way it should be done, probably to eliminate circumferential scratches. First of all, the quality of the device is fairly low. The whole device wobbled when the power was turned on, but still worked. I had a DVD that could read some tracks but not others. Putting that DVD through this device made the DVD completely unreadable. The radial scratch/buff marks that it put on the DVD were so severe that it could no longer be read. To be fair -- the directions ask you to buff out the DVD by hand radially as well, the more you buff the better it should become... but I put in a lot of work and it wasn't good enough -- DVD was unreadable. So from my experience, this device completely destroyed the DVD from a half readable DVD to one that does not work at all.

This is a review from my 14 yesr old grandson who is using the product:I've had the skip DR. for about a week, and I think it's working pretty well. I needed to resurface several discs, and it has done a decent job so far. The main issues I've had with it are that I resurfaced a couple of discs and they work for the most part, but then randomly throughout the game, my consle will say it doesn't recognize the disc. I am assuming that this is more of a consle issue ( because if I just take the disc out and put it back in without even touching it, the game keeps playing) which is why I am giving it a 4 star. I have resurfaced a disc close to 20 full rotations and it still has plastic, but still has issues playing, because it has deeper scratches. so I dont know how many times to use the skip DR without breaking the disc. Since the Skip DRonly removes a very little part of the disc, it takes FOREVER if ever to get deeper scratches out. But all in all this product does what it says it should so I would recommend.

This is the one that works. Price to value percentage equals 100% . Make sure you keep the surface wet with glasses cleaning spray. Only works on minor scratches. For deep scratches I use fine wet sandpaper then polish with skip Dr. Warning do this at your own risk some older disks may break or crack when wet sanding so keep it on a good flat surface. Hope this helps, good luck.

I purchased this to clean up scratched CDs and DVDs. It works, but they don't provide much fluid and the FlexiWheel didn't last to repair 25 discs. The replacement FlexiWheel is about $12 so it gets expensive to use this system. I'm going to try what other reviewers have suggested and use more fluid when buffing to see if I can get the FlexiWheel to last longer. I'm also going to use a power supply rather than batteries - maybe too much drag on the FlexiWheel if the power is too low. To its credit, the gadget has repaired every DVD/CD I've tried, even one that I thought there was no possibility that it would ever work again. All of my repaired discs came out with a radial pattern on them, but they all worked perfectly. I can live with the radial pattern if the discs work well! The unit is not for use with Blu-rays, so I haven't tried one in it.