Posted by Derek Janssen on 11/29/06 20:28

dgates wrote:

>> 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?

Since most paper towls are ribbed...wrong. You use the flat surface of
tissue paper (presumably one that doesn't have aloe lotion or other gunk
in it).

> 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?

You can buy a pack of fifty woven plastic DVD-Rom envelopes--some with
ring-binder holes--at Staples for $12.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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