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Burining DVD's?

Can dvds still work ok and are still of ''worth'' if they have light scratches on them?

  • or shoud you buy brand new copys? im 34 live in the uk and i have obssessive anxietys ocd about material items....i have old vintage dvds that ive bought years ago...physically and online via ebay etc....old vintage dvds of old 80s cartoon shows, childrens shows....cartoons i remember from my childhood. unfortunately a few of them ive not taken care of as well as i should, the dvds..cds....ive left them lying around out of there cases....and a few of the discs have light scratches on the underside of the dvds....all over...........but when i put them in my computer to watch...on vlc media player....the dvds appear to play /operate ok? but i was obsessing recently do i need to buy brand new copys of the dvd boxsets just so i have a brand new version of them?....rather than have old tattered dvds with scratches on the discs. in general im not very wealthy, live on a low income and dont have many material possessions....but i do value what i do have...especially vintage rare items.

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    A few light scratches won't affect the quality of the DVD; there is no need to go out and buy new ones. So long as the machine is still able to read and play the movies, they're fine. A scratch on a DVD is not like a crack in a windshield - it won't spread or get worse over time. Just make sure you're careful with them from now on. You might want to pick up a DVD buffer kit (you can order them online or find them at most consumer electronics or department stores). You may actually be able to buff out most of the scratches and have your DVDs look like new again. Don't try to buff out the scratches with a regular cloth, you'll only scratch them more. In the future, you might also want to pick up a spool of blank DVDs and burn copies of your DVDs; that way, you can play the copies and leave the originals in storage so you can be sure they won't get damaged. It's more than just scratches you need to be careful of, too. To get the maximum life out of your DVDs, you should store them in a cool, dry environment. Never leave discs is direct sunlight, and be very careful when taking them in and out of the DVD player.

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if you were to go back to when CD's were introduced, the claim was 'unbreakable' and undamageable, they used to put jam on them, (lightly) scratch/score them, and put black tape strips on them... THEN PLAY them without issue. The CD system has a lot of error protection and recovery in it The same is true for DVD and BluRay - light simple damage is recoverable. Not least because production is nowhere near as perfect as you might think, so all the players are constantly doing small error recovery/protection. OK, one should not expect the extremes of the demo's and there will be some large area's of continuous (along the tracks) damage that is unrecoverable but small spot or radial scratches do not bother the system at all. Actually, if you hold a CD or DVD to the light, and look through it you may well see small holes in the silvering - proof that it is already not 100% perfect (and you never knew did you ?!) You can get CD/DVD polishers, though I would not use them unless you have disk that has become unplayable (It has to be really bad - brillo pad damage) to stop it. Mainly this is because polishers will remove some of the outer protective surface.. so if it is not broke dont fix it ;) Basically don't worry...

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