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Jul 5, 2007 9:43 pm US/Eastern
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Does It Really Do That? - Disc Rescuer
by Yvonne Zanos
(KDKA)
Scratches and fingerprints on your DVDs and CDs can leave you distraught and watching skipping or frozen entertainment.
But a new product, the Disc Rescuer, says it can wipe away all your disc troubles – but does it really do that?
We tested the Disc Rescuer with the help of a played-out Dora the Explorer DVD nicked up by the hands of a toddler.
Instead of throwing out the movie, we put $30 down for the Disc Rescuer and attempted to clean the disc.
The Disc Rescuer is a machine that you run your damaged discs through, using the cleaning and repair kits included in the package.
We prepared our repair disk with drops of the required solution then placed the Dora disk data side down on top.
Into the machine they go, and with the press of a button, the Disc Rescuer works for about four minutes.
The freshly doctored DVD still has some visible scratches after its run through the Disc Rescuer, but the video and sound are noticeably clearer.
For scratches so deep that they cut into data on a disc, though, there's not much hope in fixing them.
As for old CDs, the Rescuer does take out some scratches, but the quality of the disk doesn't become much better than if you wipe of the disc with a simple dry, soft cloth.
While the Disc Rescuer does make a difference, it doesn't do much – making its $30 price tag a little higher than the cost of a good cloth or a new disc.
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