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Xbox scratches game discs

maxg94 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:21:31 -0800

Our Xbox 360 is scratching the discs. What can we do? My son's Xbox 360 is scratching his discs. At first I was blaming him for moving the unit and causing it to scratch but now I know it is not his fault. The unit is in a secure position and has not been moved. He is on his 3rd Halo 3 disc and it has circular scratches on it.

Google has shown us that there are problems with this but most mention things in EU as far as getting help.

Has anyone in the US had this issue? What can be done? These games are too expensive for this and he has to use his own money. The unit was purchased in about 2 years ago.

Mac Mini scratched my DVD

snarfois — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:44:04 -0800

Mac Mini scratched my DVD -- anyone seen this before? (photo inside) What should I do? I popped a brand new DVD in the slot, and for about a minute nothing happened, except the noises of a computer struggling with a disc.

Then it popped back out, and it looked like this. Almost pretty.

Never mind salvaging the DVD -- I'll download a torrent with a clean conscience. (I guess I could try the toothpaste trick on the DVD first.) Is this a familiar problem to anyone? Did I do something wrong? What should I do? I have subsequently played other DVDs in the Mini without problems, but am wondering how likely this problem is to recur.

Scratched lens repair for Oakleys?

anonymoose — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:56:24 -0800

Scratched Oakleys: My girlfriend just scratched her Oakley Haylons (Cork / VR28 Gold Iridium lenses), and is kicking herself. Can I help? (What are my lens repair/replacement options?)

Jumpy DVDs

stupidsexyFlanders — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:56:11 -0800

It's happened again tonight. We rent a DVD from National Chain Video, and right in the middle of the movie we get a 10 minute period of jittery video, and then a bit later the picture inexplicably jumps ahead in the story. We're left wondering what we missed.

Are we the only ones wondering secretly if this whole DVD thing is ready for prime time? DVDs I've bought new, no problem. But can a rental DVD hold up to the casual abuse of multiple rentals, and still play? I don't think it's the DVD player, we're on our third, and the problem has been consistent. Our current player is a Toshiba combination VCR/DVD player, about 2.5 years old. Should we upgrade? Or is this always going to be a problem with rental DVDs? And how does Vanilla Sky end, anyway? We never found out. Grrrr.