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Summary: Amazon Oversold
Review: The SkipDoctor does well at what it is supposed to do. It does not fix discs that are beyond repair. I found the skipdoctor.com website helpful in distinguishing discs that are fixable and those that are beyond repair. My big comment is on Amazon's advertisement of this product: In the "Technical Details" link it says: "In the box: Motorized SkipDoctor, a storage case, an extra resurfacing wheel, a drying cloth, 2 felt buffing pads, a severe-scratch pad, a 4-ounce bottle of resurfacing fluid, a 3-inch-disc adapter ring, and a user's manual" My first one was missing: a storage case, an extra resurfacing wheel, 1 felt buffing pad, a severe-scratch pad, and a user's manual. I sent it back and when I got the replacement it was missing all the mentioned items except it did add an owner's manual. Don't believe you'll get all that is promised.
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Summary: Useless
Review: The SkipDoctor ruined any discs i used it on, despite my reading every word in the manual and following any bit of advice i could get from reviews on this site.
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Summary: WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The worst part is that I totally ruined a one-of a-kind DVD! This product should be discontinued. It does more harm than good. I have not being able to fix one single CD or DVD. In fact the product has just added more scratches and made my cd's worse. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Get a new DVD or CD. It will be less expensive!
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Summary: It works but it's not a miracle-worker
Review: We have used our disk doctor for about three years now and are very pleased with the results. We have salvaged more than 5 Playstation games that got abused by my teenage son (who leaves them lying around the room, out of their cases). I figure that I'm $150 ahead of the game, despite the cost of the resurfacing wheels. Remember that it works by removing a single layer of plastic (and the scratches in that layer) on the disk. If your scratches are deeper, you may have to use it a couple of times. If your scratches penetrate to the layer where the data are stored, then you are out of luck and need to buy a new CD/DVD/game. But for about 80% of the problem disks out there, it really works great!
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Summary: I can see how it's meant to work...
Review: Well, I supose I was skeptical as to it's abilities but some reviews of the manual product said it helped remove some scratches, and I must admit it fixed one of my sons Blues Clues DVD's where it skipped. However, I've tried on a very moderately scratched audio cd and it truly has made it worse. A person who reviewed the manual product noted that the wheel left a film that was impossible to remove, and I can now see what he means. It's not a film as such but polishing marks.
The motion of the polishing wheel is that of bouncing up and down as it's rubber spokes stretch and spring back.
I presume this is how they achieve their pressure to grind off just enough plastic. It leaves grinding marks, almost in a floral spiral pattern as though the disk had been held in place, moved very slightly around, ground on that spot, moved again, etc until the whole disk is polished. This "film" should be pretty okay for any cd player as it's flat and still see through, even though you can see it's there.
Scratches refract the laser light causing these skips, and it's those we want to get rid of.
This fogging shouldn't really matter too much, but heres my cd, and before I polished it, it was only one track that wouldn't play, and now it's been through the skipdoctor almost the entire cd refuses to play on my brand new cd player. I've put it through the skipdoctor three times now and it's making things worse with every single pass. *Scratches head* I guess I'm returning it.
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