Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System
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Customer Review: Miracle worker.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a CD with some film music that I really liked. Unfortunately the use library copy I bought had seen a great deal of wear and other mistreatment. The tracks I wanted to hear would skip, or otherwise not play. It was frustrating. I bought a hand crank disc repair kit by Memorex. It had worked well on other discs that had problems, but only seemed to make the problem CD worse.
Yesterday afternoon during my lunch break I went and bought this device at Radio Shack. I really didn't want to spend the money, but at the same time I didn't want to trash the disc. So, I splurged on the automatic version of the DiscDr. I didn't have much hope for it. I figured I'd be disappointed, angered, and otherwise out $50 (batteries not included).
Wrong. On the first play in my car stereo I could hear every track. It was a bit of a chemical and electronic miracle that brought a smile to my face.
Check it out. It's worth it.
Customer Review: Excellent product!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had went out and bought some "other" disk repair systems, and none of them worked, so I returned them. I was a little skeptical of this one even though there were some pretty good reviews on it. Well I am soooo glad I got it!!! I had a PS 1 game that I had been trying to play on my PS 3. The PS 1 disk had some scratches on it, two of them were pretty bad, and about halfway through the game, the screen went blank, so after trying different products, I finally got this one.
I could really tell a difference the first time I ran it through. All the little scratches were gone, but the two big ones were still there, but not as bad. Well after about 4 more tries in the machine, there were no scratches whatsoever, and my game worked!!!! I can get past the part now where it was a blank screen!!!
I also repaired several of my toddlers dvds that were badly scratched. Now if I can find replacement parts for when they wear out!
Customer Review: It worked mostly
Summary: 4 Stars
It seems to work after you run discs through two to five times. It's pretty whiny sounding. It won't remove all the scratches you can see, but it seems to do a good enough job that I can recover the audio or dvd to make a new disc. Some of the audio discs I've repaired still couldn't play in a regular cd player, but iTunes didn't grumble when it happily ripped the track that it spit the disc out for before. This unit is a lot easier than the hand crank style - which takes a bit of effort. It's great for toddlers who find cd's. I've fixed about ten discs with it three of which still wouldn't play in the cd player, but I was able to rip them in a computer and make a new disc. I was unable to fix two discs - one I intentionally scratched badly. Interestingly, the badly scratched one couldn't be read at all in my dvd player before the repair. After the repair, it skipped here and there. I give up after running it five times on discs.Customer Review: Still the best.
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of people take very good care of their discs.
....I'm not one of them.
Here a cd.
There a cd.
Everywhere a cd,cd.
Cd's on the floor.
Cd's on the fridge.
Ok, I'll stop. I think you get the picture.
Enter the Skip Doctor.
I used to have the old, green hand turn version and that one saved many of my cd's.
I like this new one better, just pop the disc in, let it spin and you're done.
Is it a cure all?
No, some skips are so deep not even this can fix them.
Now, that said, even if you can get the disc to read I found a program called EAC (Exact Audio Copy).
Look it up. It's free and will fix even the most scratched cd so you can save a perfect mp3 to your computer.
Of course The Skip Doctor will help get you that perfect copy that much quicker.
The Motorized Skip Doctor.
Reasonably priced, effective, highly recommended.
Customer Review: CRAP!!! DO NOT BUY!
Summary: 1 Stars
Save yourself some trouble and don't buy this! I scratched an xbox360 game and in order to save some bucks I decided to purchase the Skip Dr. Automated Scratch Repair System and that way I'll would get to keep my old game and keep the repair system for another unfortunate cd scratch event. But I was way off! Right off the box the system didn't work. I placed all the batteries (not included by the way) and the battery cover wouldn't close. After some improvisation (with tape) I was able to to close the battery door. After following all the instructions I inserted the cd and to my surprise it didn't do absolutely anything! All you could hear was a sound of a small mecanism that was too weak to make the equipment work. I called customer service and they asked me to send it back to get a new replacement. But unfortunately, I do not live in the US and sending it back would be more costly than keeping the damn thing.