Posted by dgates on 11/29/06 20:17

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:34:03 -0800, JoeBloe
<joebloe@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:07 -0500, Jaime M. de Castellvi
><3cjmd@comcast.net> Gave us:
>
>>On another note, what are everybody's favorite DVD cleaning products?
>
>
> First rule of optical discs:
>
> The easiest way to keep a disc clean is to *never* touch the optical
>surface to begin with! It is just like a camera lens except that it
>can be scratched by a single particle of dust. "Cleaning" a disc is a
>detrimental process.
>
> There are only two places for a disc. The disc tray of a
>player/reader, and the case it came in.


This is an interesting notion, which leads me to ask a couple of
questions:


1. Surely, if you've rented a disc from Netflix, and it arrives with
an obvious smudge of something on the bottom, you're going to clean
the thing, right?

Specifically, if you don't have any special DVD-cleaning products,
you're going to squirt Windex onto a paper towel and use that to wipe
outwards on the bottom of the DVD... right?


2. How bad is it to place a bare DVD on a wooden shelf, or on another
DVD? The way the 25-packs of blank DVDs come shipped in a big stack,
it doesn't seem like it would be that big a deal.

At our house, we almost always have a few DVDs lying around on shelves
-- both commercial DVDs and home-burned DVD+RW's. How seriously
should we consider an emergency change in our DVD-handling policy?


Thanks for any thoughts.

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