Digital Innovations SkipDr DVD and CD Motorized Disc Repair System

It fixes 70% of my DVD/VCD discs that are entirely defective and unusable. The drives I had from 9 years ago used to have a lot of scratches and filthy substances on the lens as well on the outer of the disc which makes it very hard for the DVD player to write it. Whenever I try to play some favorite DVD movies on my PS4, the movie freezes for a couple of minutes and sometimes can't even play it. Luckily, I found this fabulous disk repair tool by Dr Skip and had an initial thought that this stuff could save me a penny of dollars to fix this issue. After placing an order, it took me around a week and a half to arrive in KUALA LUMPUR, MY, which is very fast. The repair system has two variations. There are motorized and manual ones. I chose the motorized one because it seems much more accessible and efficient. In the box itself contains the disc repair system, six piles of 6 AA batteries, buffing square, drying cloth, and rejuvenating fluid. How does it work? It merely rotates the disc in 360 and removes a microscopic layer within the safe buffer zone. To do that, spray the rejuvenating fluid lightly onto the player-side of the drive. This process smooths scratches to restore the disc's underside surface while leaving music, movie, data or game information unaffected. The SkipDr will motorize for quick and easy disc repairs, and it works gently enough to repair the same disc multiple times safely. The results: I've put some test on the DVD and a VCD disc. Both CDs had apparent scratches and smudges on it, and I repeatedly did the same process until it worked the way I wanted it to be. The results were terrific! After the process of resurfacing done, the scratches still left on the lens, but when I played the discs, I could see there was no pausing and loading video, and it saved me from throwing them into the trash. In conclusion, it's worth buying SKIPDR. Disc repair system with an effective way of fixing damaged discs and user-friendly tool. You could also set lots of CDS for multiple times. It's not itty-bitty stuff and is recommended by me if you're looking for a compact and powerful tool to fix many different discs, SKIPDR. Is by far the BEST!

Overall, it’s very easy to use, but it’s incredibly fragile. The value for money is also quite High, considering the item doesn’t work. It makes a strange sound when it “attempts” to fix the disc. Any disc will fit, so it’s quite universal in that regard. However, I strongly advise against purchasing this SkipDr to repair your CD/DVD. It’s not worth the effort, and you’ll definitely lose any data in that CD/DVD Guaranteed. It’s just a piece of junk. So, do yourself a favor and avoid this headache. Instead, look for a better option.

I started with the hand cranked version as it was cheaper and I was skeptical after reading all of the reviews. I figured if it could help even just 3-4 movies that would have otherwise needed to just be replaced then it was worth it, it worked great after I got the hang of how to use it and I deviated from the directions a little. I decided to invest in this one as we have a couple hundred, more or less, kids movies. This one is even better because I am hands free so it can keep going while I spray it to keep it wet. The wetter the better! Thats where I deviated from the directions, they say to "spray lightly then let it make 2 evolutions around then take it out and wipe then buff" I started by experimenting on a couple of disks that I knew were not fixable because the backs of the disks were scratched as bad as the front. I don't like how little spray they include but any spray made for cleaning eyeglasses (the kind thats safe for plastic lens') works just as well. If it gets even a little dry it will make the disk hazy with the sanding, if it's kept really wet it works great! I spray heavily before starting then keep spraying the top as it comes around to go down again. I do not wait for it to make 2 evolutions before spraying again, I usually let it go around 3-4x this way depending on how scratched it is. Then I clean and buff as it says and if it needs more I do it again. Whatever you do don't be frugal with the spray! Better to use more than needed than not enough. To finish up after everything I buff it with an extremely small amount of liquid wax. Only a drop on the cloth for the whole disk (That step isn't necessary, I just like it personally). I did go ahead and invest in a power cord as I have no interest in keeping up with batteries. They have them on amazon for $5-8 or so. Definitely worth picking up if you plan on using this a lot as I do. I moved the wheel and stuff from my other SkipDr to this one to save the new one for extra. No, this isn't something you can use if you want to be able to sell disks as it does leave faint markings but its great for personal use especially if you have kids that are just now getting old enough to understand proper disk care. I have improved everything I have used this on that was salvageable. Most of them run smooth all the way through now. A small number still skip or freeze in a place or 2 for a second or so then keep going. Those were the disks that used to either just get stuck and stay frozen or had to be jumped way ahead to keep them going before. So they are still greatly improved! Both of these things have already paid for themselves 2-3x over at this point! For us, for our kids movies, this was most definitely worth it! The wheels also last longer than they are said to last if you keep the disk really wet and take the wheel off and gently rinse it off every once in a while I have noticed. I have used it on 36 movies so far and am still using the wheel from the first hand cranked SkipDr on this model. I haven't used it on anything but the kids DVDs so I can't say how well it does for games or bluray or anything as those items have always been off limits to the kids handling so they are all in great condition. They do watch the DVDs in the bluray player though and it has no issues reading them.

This is a review from my 14 yesr old grandson who is using the product: I've had the skip DR. for about a week, and I think it's working pretty well. I needed to resurface several discs, and it has done a decent job so far. The main issues I've had with it are that I resurfaced a couple of discs and they work for the most part, but then randomly throughout the game, my consle will say it doesn't recognize the disc. I am assuming that this is more of a consle issue ( because if I just take the disc out and put it back in without even touching it, the game keeps playing) which is why I am giving it a 4 star. I have resurfaced a disc close to 20 full rotations and it still has plastic, but still has issues playing, because it has deeper scratches. so I dont know how many times to use the skip DR without breaking the disc. Since the Skip DR only removes a very little part of the disc, it takes FOREVER if ever to get deeper scratches out. But all in all this product does what it says it should so I would recommend.

I bought this to attempt to fix an XBOX 360 NCAA Football 14 disc that had stopped working, probably due to scratches, etc. Replacement discs are like $150, so I thought I would give this repair device a try before forking over $150 to someone for another used disc. The unit itself was well-packaged, and the instructions were pretty straightforward. I wetted the disc sufficiently (and rewetted while in the machine) and ran it through probably 3 revolutions, maybe a little more than what was suggested. Then I dried it with the blue cloth and buffed it with the white square, formly but not too aggressively. Put it in the XBOX 360, and it no longer even recognized the disc at all. Disappointing. I packed up the unit to return to Amazon but then thought I would give it one more try (again to avoid forking over $150 to someone). I inspected the disc, and it seemed to me, maybe I am wrong, that it had not done the repair all the way out to the edges of the disc. So I repeated the process and this time but a light leverage pressure on the disc to make sure the cleaning wheel was really hitting the outer edges. I dried the disc and this time buffed with the white square a lot harder than the first time, working radially as suggested. I then got all the lint and stuff off. After this second time, success, the disc worked, and my son was able to download it to his 360 and play the game as intended. So, as indicated above, it ultimately worked. Not sure why it worked the second time (if anything I did different made a difference) as opposed to just the first time, but it did. To the manufacturer's credit, the instructions did say, if it doesn't work after one cleaning, repeat the process.

This product has been all around great for me thus far. Using this device consists of the simplest three step process: Spray some fluid onto the disc so it is properly lubricated, insert the disc into the machine and turn it on, and then eject the disc once it does two complete revolutions. I've tested about 7 PS2 discs using this device, using the batteries included inside of the box, and it has removed most if not all of the scratches on my pre-owned PS2 discs. I would say my discs had light to moderate scratches, but nothing too heavy for this device to handle obviously. If your discs are heavily scratched then this option probably isn't for you, but for lightly scratched to moderately scratched discs this device is phenomenal. Just remember to keep your discs properly lubricated, and don't have them run for more than two revolutions at a time, and you'll be satisfied so long as your discs don't have the appearance of being clawed by a bear to begin with. Also if you notice that the wheel on the device is slowing down considerably you should probably change the batteries, use AC Adapter, or simply give the thing a brake so the motor doesn't wear out. UPDATE 1 (IMPORTANT): I recently contacted digital innovations due to the fact that the buff square was not included with the purchase of this product. Customer service was very delightful and prompt, and I was informed to not use this device with BluRay discs at the end of it all. It turns out that this device is for CDs and DvDs only! If you attempt to use this device with a BluRay disc, it can potentially damage it! If you want to repair a BluRay disc, you need to get the corresponding replacement wheel to fix that specific type of disc. This really isn't emphasized enough in the instructions given, but merely on the back of box towards the very bottom. Honestly it's best to go to digitalinnovations.com, and order the correct replacement wheels from there for a reasonable price. By the way I recommend this AC adapter if you need some extra added power to the SkipDr: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015MQ8NA0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 UPDATE 2: This device has paid for itself already completely! On top of removing the scratches from my PS2 discs, which are NON BluRay discs, I also ordered myself a copy of Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the PS2 that was in "not working condition." Getting a mediocre working copy of Tenkaichi 3 that only includes a copy of the game can easily cost you at least $50, and so getting the game plus the case and cover art for $25 was quite a steal. Nonetheless I ran it through the SkipDr multiple times, and it worked like new! I give this product an A+++, and if I could give it 10 out of 5 stars I honestly would.

A CD with very, very important information was recovered with this unit when other methods had failed. Works as advertised.

This is a great idea, a hope to restore an important DVD. It has an abrasive wheel that creates radial buffing of the DVD ... which is the way it should be done, probably to eliminate circumferential scratches. First of all, the quality of the device is fairly low. The whole device wobbled when the power was turned on, but still worked. I had a DVD that could read some tracks but not others. Putting that DVD through this device made the DVD completely unreadable. The radial scratch/buff marks that it put on the DVD were so severe that it could no longer be read. To be fair -- the directions ask you to buff out the DVD by hand radially as well, the more you buff the better it should become... but I put in a lot of work and it wasn't good enough -- DVD was unreadable. So from my experience, this device completely destroyed the DVD from a half readable DVD to one that does not work at all.

Bon produit

Cumple su función y deja en buen estado los discos

All Good

Had a DVD kept jumping and sticking now playing all the way through Not a problem This is a few days later I put a disk through and made it unreadable I tried alot of times kept saying the same thing then I waited a few hours tried again and now it plays all the way through

Updated review. More successful repairs and it remains to be seen if the mechanism is durable. I’ve read other reviews concerning poor standards of construction but so far so good. I recommend this product. I needed to refurbish / repair cds - some many years old. I repaired one disc that had several skip areas. Read and followed the instructions. Clearly described steps to be followed and precautions to be taken. Perfect result with one treatment.