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Some folks swear by those expensive commercial repair kits. Some folks swear by Brasso. Or even toothpaste. Funny how some people get married to commercial CD repair kits. Over the years, I've bought ...

Music CD's are pretty tough, but they can get scratched. And scratches mean messed-up music. But a home repair kit may be your answer It's hard to keep the beat when your CD is scratched. That's where ...

Modern-day Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs come standard with an anti-scratch layer, but this isn't the case for CDs and DVDs. If you have a well-worn collection of the latter disc types, you'll be all too ...

Scratch cleaners claim to be able to remove surface damage and bring new life to your old discs, but do they actually work?

I have a CD-ROM that is quite scratched (those nasty circular ones...the drive it was in must have been borked somehow). Needless to say, it won't read past a certain point so I need to find out if I ...

Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...