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I have a DVD that has a tiny chip in the inner plastic-y bit. Has anyone else encountered this situation before? The disc itself still plays, but it skips like crazy in one particular spot.
What should I do?
What should I do?
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Hold it up to a bright-ish light with the label side facing you. If you can see the damage through the label, it's un-fixable and needs to be replaced. The data layer on DVDs is just below the label itself, so a hole that's visible from the label side goes all the way thru. Sorry.
Short of that, a DVD fixer/buffer machine at a video store (if those still exist near you) or maybe a a library (???) MAY be able to buff the damage out and make it usable again."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Replace the DVD. You might not mind the skip, but the integrity of DVD is compromised by that chip. Considering the high speeds at which the DVD spins, a chip could cause it to fracture into many pieces, and may even hurt you.
Beware of cracked discs."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."Comment
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