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Summary: Complete Waste of $!!!
Review: Before the CD doctor treatment, my CD's skipped once every two seconds. After a few resolutions, they skip once every ten. No improvement. I am returning this crappy product and getting my money back.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY AND JUST BUY ANOTHER CD!!!!
Review: I got the motorized Skip Doctor as a Christmas present and was excited that I would be able to save a lot of my scrated CDs and the money it would take to replace them. Much to my chagrin, this piece of junk did nothing but create swirls in the discs and made some of them skip worse, or caused the music to "drop out" on the disc. I also have these mysterious nicks in my CD that the Skip Doctor had no affect on. The Skip Doctor is noisey, awkward to hold and after "repairing" about 6 discs, the wheel-thingie appears to be worn. Also, after I went on-line to investigate the cause of the mysterious nicks on my CDs, an article said that the Skip Doctor actually will cause the data on CDs to be wiped away, which probably explains the "drop out". At any rate, to make a long story short...save your money and just go ahead and re-purchase that damaged CD. Yeah, I know...that can be quite expensive--but why waste your time with this thing?
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Summary: Don't dispair skip Doctor is here
Review: I have used it several times now..Yes it leaves marks on your disk but don't let it get you down..They put a buffing cloth with the kit and remember to use lots of the liquid thats with it..Take your time and the cd will play like new..Remember to buff well...Of course it wont fix your cd's if the scratches are in the label portion..
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Summary: Worth every penny!
Review: I own both the manual & motorized Skip Dr and have used them very frequently for the past 3 years (less on the motorized which I have used about 2 years). They work flawlessly as long as you know what you are doing. MAKE SURE DISC IS WET ENOUGH. All the reviews where people complain it ruined the disc is because they used it wrong most likely not wet enough. I have NEVER in 3 years ruined a disc.
I have restored everything from cd's to PS2 games and everything in between. I have only had 1 DVD unrepairable only because my children rubbed it on concrete which chipped the disc, other than that is does as it says. It does leave the "buffing" marks but that is to be expected since you are "REPAIRING" a disc not buying or making a new one. I prefer the motorized Skip Dr only because it is less work. Sometimes a disc that is severly scratched (which is a lot in my household with small children) you will have to complete the cycle completely 12 times so your arm does get tired!
I highly highly recommend either Skip Dr as you will get your money back after you clean just a couple of disc's. As for the replacement wheels, I have replaced the wheel on the manual Skip Dr. a couple of time & the motorized wheel finally went out on me just yesterday (almost 2 years of use).
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Summary: I Like It
Review: I recieved this as an x-mas gift and am pretty happy with it. Of the 5-10 cd's I have tried restoring so far, only two could not be fixed (one being my Radiohead cd :-( ) because one or two scratches/chips were too deep to simply be buffed away. However, I am giddy that it fully restored, among others, my Dismemberment Plan cd, which as my sister said, was "a piece." Many of the albums that had been restored I had previously attempted to clean with soap and a towel with no luck.
It's important not to skip any steps in order to get the best use out of it. Make sure you coat the cd in the resurfacing fluid before you put it under the buffer wheel and do two full rotations. I've found the buffering with the little white felt piece, after you put it through the machine and wipe it dry, is very important, otherwise the cd will have a flower-shaped film on it that interferes with playing. If you do it right you shouldn't be able to see much of that pattern left on it.
I am disappointed to hear that the wheel must be replaced after 20-30 uses. And I'm not sure where to get new resurfacing fluid when it runs out. But given the number of my beloved albums that have been restored, I am happy with it (especially since it was a gift).
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Summary: Simply doesn't work
Review: I tried this product on over 10 CD's and it didn't improve the condition of play on any of them. None of the CD's had damage to the label and all had only very superficial surface scratches.
Perhaps this product has worked for some people, however I don't believe that it provides a result that is any better than simply cleaning the CD with a soft sponge and dish soap, rinsing, and drying with a soft cloth. I have frequently used this method to successfully remove the skip from CD's, DVD's, etc with scratches or surface contaminants (finger prints, etc).
The "Buffing pad" included does very little to improve the condition of the CD after skip doctor has had its way with it. The process leaves the CD with a series of slightly angled lines across the entire surface. All the CD's all looked much worse after this process, however it is unclear if this made things worse.
The "resurfacing solution" is simply 99.5% filtered water and .05% Isopropanol (as a preservative) so distilled water is a good replacement solution due to its purity, and the label even indicates as much.
I put one CD through more than the recommended two times (because the first two didn't seem to do the trick) and this may have caused the CD play to diminish further as after this the CD seemed to suffer from more problems in play. Therefore it probably isn't a good idea to try for 4 or more times through just to see if it gets any better.
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Summary: Fixes most, but not all CD skips
Review: I used to have a manual Skip docter, which took FOREVER and led to all sorts of nasty wrist cramps. This one does 2 passes on a disk in about 30 seconds, and fixed about 80% of the problems on a bunch of CDs that had been bumping around my car for a few months.No, it won't fix every scratch, and I don't have much experience using it on DVDs or Game disks, but it has definitely paid for itself already. PS It's nice that they let you know that the "disk resurfacing fluid" is nothing but de-mineralized water, and that you can probably use tap water without any problems. Such truth in advertising is pretty refreshing.
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Summary: Paid for itself
Review: Just received it today. Fixed three out of three Playstation 2 games. Simple to use. Have to keep the disc wet while using. Kinda flimsy materials but it works so I guess I can't complain. Had tried the spray and manual buffing cloth previously which did not work. Recommend this product if you have CD's that need repair.
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Summary: I was missing some parts too.
Review: The extra resurfacing wheel was missing. So was the severe-scratch pad. I got only one felt buffing pad, the drying cloth, manual, liquid the power adapter. But it did fix my Crazy Taxi PS2 disc that I bought at a pawn shop. There are still deep scratches but they don't seem to effect the game the way they used to. I'd use it again for other CDs, but knowing I don't have a third of what's listed that better be mildly scratched discs.
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Summary: The good, the bad and the ugly...
Review: The GOOD: The Skip Dr really does work! Out of 6 CDs that were totally unplayable, it restored 3 back to full playability, 2 restored with skips left in one track, and 1 CD too far gone to be repaired (it's only a machine, not a miracle worker). It also makes CDs that are covered with spider web-type scratches look nice again.
The BAD: The resurfacing wheel wears out really fast. The makers say it lasts for 30-50 uses, but mine wore out after about 20 uses. If you have a large amount of CDs to doctor, this will be a problem.
The UGLY: Amazon doesn't sell the replacement wheels! If they did, you could order 3 packs (6 wheels) for 30 bucks, get FREE shipping & have the wheels in about 3-4 days. And the 2 main sites online that DO sell them, charge 10-11 bucks for 2 wheels and 8 bucks for 10-day shipping to mail a 2-oz item. (USPS 4-day delivery for a 2-oz item is 83 cents). So the excessive shipping costs at these rip-off sites drive the price up to almost 10 bucks a wheel!
The GOOD (again): Sam Goody does carry the replacement wheels in their retail stores.
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