Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System
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Customer Review: Fixed a game disc my Xbox 360 destroyed
Summary: 5 Stars
The Xbox 360 suffers from a problem that is fairly well-known, wherein a disc that is spinning in the drive will jolt out of its spin if the console itself is picked up or jostled while running. This can and often does cause massive scratches in a circular pattern on the disc, making it unreadable.
This recently happened to my Guitar Hero World Tour disc, and it was unreadable. After trying several methods to fix it (including the toothpaste method) it was still unreadable. To be fair it seems that with enough time and endurance the toothpaste method may have worked, but I spent over an hour on it and it was still unreadable.
I finally caved and bought this bad boy. I ran my damaged disc through it and after 2 passes it worked like a charm. It may have been ok after 1 pass, but I figured it was so screwed up I'd just go for 2 from the get-go and didn't even try it after the first pass.
Considering this cost me roughly half the money of a new Xbox 360 game I'm pleased, and I'll certainly be using it to clean up any other discs I have that could use it.
Customer Review: Well worth the price!
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply put, this is an amazing piece of machinery. I order a lot of used house/trance CDs from overseas, which can be quite expensive. They don't always arrive in the best shape unfortunately, especially older CDs. The SkipDR has managed to save every single CD I've used it on, no matter what condition it arrived in. It's truly saved me a ton of aggrevation.
I highly reccomend the automated version instead of the manual one, which I ordered first. The automated version is about 20x easier and faster to use, which you'll appreciate if you have a bunch of CDs to clean.
There is only one slight downside to this machine that's been talked about before, and that is how fast the disposable parts run out. The wheel and fluid will only last about 20-25 CDs, far less than the advertised amount. But if you really want to save your CDs/DVDs, it's just a small issue. The price of replacement kits is far cheaper than re-buying a ton of CDs and DVDs.
I definantly reccomend this if you have tons of optical media laying around. Well worth the cost!
Customer Review: Not bad. But not the best
Summary: 3 Stars
The things that I like about the skip dr. is that it can repair discs and bring them back to playable quailty. Sometimes you might need to run the disc through several times to revive it. Also it is convenient to have this in your own home. So you don't need to take it anywhere else.
The two things I didn't like is first: when the repair is done it leaves a foggy or somewhat scratchy look on the disc and makes it hard to say it is back in perfect condition. So you can tell it has been ran through a repair kit. It would be nice to have it be brought back to a mirror finish. Second: the fact that each time you run it, the machine barely removes anything. This makes you need to run it many times to get it to remove what you want it to.
Overall it is a good product, I just wouldn't recommend it if you were trying to get discs back to new condition for resale because it won't give you that mirror finish like other repair machines. But it is convenient and works to remove minor scratches and get the discs back to playable quality.
Thanks
Customer Review: Does the job, simple as that
Summary: 5 Stars
While going through our DVDs recently, I discovered a couple damaged DVDs that wouldn't read properly on a computer. Since the Skip Dr. wasn't all that expensive and looked to be well reviewed, I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did - I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone else with scratched DVDs.
This unit is simple to operate. You just spray the DVD with the "magic fluid" (which is mostly water) and insert the disc into the slot. The Skip Dr. runs it through automatically, and ejects it when it's done. While the unit can be powered by batteries, it does come with an AC adapter. It works well using the adapter - I can't speak to how well it runs on batteries.
So far I've repaired two discs. The first DVD was scratched several times one one portion of the disc only - the Skip Dr. fixed this problem with one pass. The other disc was purchased used by my daughter, and was significantly scratched (not gouged) over most of the surface. Repairing this disc took two runs through the Skip Dr., but now the disc plays flawlessly.
Customer Review: Repairing an Xbox 360 game disc
Summary: 5 Stars
I accidentally knocked over my Xbox 360 while playing Oblivion and found that my disc had many perfectly circular severe (but not too deep) scratches.In an effort to make sure the game was playable I tried loading it to the hard drive. After 10% progress, it stopped. Trying to play the game from the disc it would slow down and eventually freeze after a short time. Here's what happened each time I ran it through.
1. Ran it through once, tried to load it to the hard drive. No change- 10%
2. No change
3. I ran it through and let it sit, tried loading without polishing- 0%
4. ran it through and polished- 15%
5. no change
6. ran it through let it sit
7. ran it through and polished it- 100%
It took a while but I was very surprised and impressed. The criticisms I can give are the how many times I repeated the process and that it is very loud. I couldn't take off for that, though, since not only can I play the game, it loaded to my hard drive after getting so damaged. So, I had to write a good review.