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Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

Brand: Digital Innovations

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Includes Resurfacing fluid
Patented, replaceable radial resurfacing wheel repairs up to 50 discs
Repairs both 3" and 5" discs
Fixes scratches that can cause discs to skip, freeze, and fail to play
Includes drying cloth and felt buffing square
Fixes scratches that can cause discs to skip, freeze, and fail to play
Repairs both 3" and 5" discs

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SkipDR makes repairing damaged discs easier than ever. When your CD, DVD, or game skips, it's disruptive. The problem is, once a disc surface is scratched, it will prevent the disc player's laser from reading the signal, which causes that irritating skipping. But the SkipDR has been saving discs for a decade now. The FlexiWheel microfrictional surface technology allows for gentle resurfacing of your disc and will restore it to its original playing quality.

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Product Dimensions

8.75 x 6.75 x 4.5 inches

Item Weight

1.63 pounds

Manufacturer

Digital Innovations

ASIN

B00080YK9Y

Item model number

10185

Customer Reviews

3.8 406 ratings

3.8 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#76 in Audio & Video Disc Repair Kits

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

October 2, 2001

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Tom B

Works fine. Just a little slow.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2009

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I've noticed very divided opinions on this product. I can't imagine why, since I've used it literally a couple of hundred times with excellent results and no problems. I can only imagine that those who don't like it are using it improperly, or are hoping for and expecting too much.

It's a fine product, and works just as advertised. The reason it's 4 stars instead of 5 is that the thing is slow. It takes about a minute for the sanding process to get around the full disc, and you have to be there watching it all that time because you need to keep the CD/DVD wet or the sander belt will wear out quickly.

Tip for using it: KEEP THE DISC WET! I wore out my first sander quickly because I didn't want to babysit the process, and went off to get this or that done and came back. I think that's the mistake that some people make. Use the little spray bottle of water to keep it moist, and you'll be fine.

I'ave rescued many used CD's (I buy most music used, then copy it to my hard drive), even some horribly scratched library CD's and DVD's with this.

It works, and it's reasonably priced. What more can you want?

Tom B

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kompewterz

It worked mostly

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2009

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It seems to work after you run discs through two to five times. It's pretty whiny sounding. It won't remove all the scratches you can see, but it seems to do a good enough job that I can recover the audio or dvd to make a new disc. Some of the audio discs I've repaired still couldn't play in a regular cd player, but iTunes didn't grumble when it happily ripped the track that it spit the disc out for before. This unit is a lot easier than the hand crank style - which takes a bit of effort. It's great for toddlers who find cd's. I've fixed about ten discs with it three of which still wouldn't play in the cd player, but I was able to rip them in a computer and make a new disc. I was unable to fix two discs - one I intentionally scratched badly. Interestingly, the badly scratched one couldn't be read at all in my dvd player before the repair. After the repair, it skipped here and there. I give up after running it five times on discs.

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Country life

Paid for itself 10x's over the first day!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2009

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My daughter had 7 wii games that would not play- to include one we bought on ebay that arrrived not working. At $50 a pop, I really didn't want to replace the wii game collection so I looked around to see what could fix them and came across this product. After reading the reviews on several similar products this seemed to be the best one and very budget friendly.

I recieved it yesterday and the first thing I noticed was that it didn't have the drying rag or buffing rag. Then I realized it was actually in the storage compartment of the machine. I had been about ready to call the company- irritated to the gills- when I noticed the drying rag neatly coiled in the machine. Ooohhh...

After reading the directions, I ran my daughters games through it once. I noticed the first four were kind of cloudy but the last three weren't. I figured out that the first four I hadn't sprayed enough of the solution on the disks. They came out better the second time around. When I tried the disks in the wii game, two out of the seven worked. I ran them through a couple of times more and five of them worked. The last two wii games, one had to be run through a total of 6 times and the other a total of 8 times- but they all work now. At $50 a disk, seven disks, that's $350 this little puppy just saved me.

When I looked at the spray bottle it said 'for use with dvd Dr., cd Dr. and game Dr. So out there somewhere is a game doctor which is probably what I should have bought, but this one worked on the wii games so I won't even sweat it. I almost didn't buy this product because of the negative reviews but I'm so glad I did. I came to realize that most people are more likely to write a negative review than a postive one because when you're mad you want to do something about it and this motivates you to bash the product when you really just want to set it on fire and dance on the ashes (ok, maybe that's just me). I'm sure every product has defective ones produced, so maybe that's just the case with the negative reviews, I'm not sure. But I am sure that this thing worked for me like a charm and it saved me a lot of money when you look at the potential costs of replacing the video game discs. So from now on I'll be writing rewiews- good or bad- to do my share. I know I rely heavily on customer reviews to choose and purchase products so I figure I should put in my two cents too. Anyhow, I'll get off my soap box now. The Skip Doctor was definately a good product and definately worth the price.

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Anthony Holmes

Not bad. But not the best

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2010

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The things that I like about the skip dr. is that it can repair discs and bring them back to playable quailty. Sometimes you might need to run the disc through several times to revive it. Also it is convenient to have this in your own home. So you don't need to take it anywhere else.

The two things I didn't like is first: when the repair is done it leaves a foggy or somewhat scratchy look on the disc and makes it hard to say it is back in perfect condition. So you can tell it has been ran through a repair kit. It would be nice to have it be brought back to a mirror finish. Second: the fact that each time you run it, the machine barely removes anything. This makes you need to run it many times to get it to remove what you want it to.

Overall it is a good product, I just wouldn't recommend it if you were trying to get discs back to new condition for resale because it won't give you that mirror finish like other repair machines. But it is convenient and works to remove minor scratches and get the discs back to playable quality.

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Amazon Customer

This product is a must have! :)

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 11, 2019

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Excellent product! It’s a must have :)

Tracy B

SkipDr premier (Automatic)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 31, 2009

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I was very sceptical about this product as i have used others before....which were completly useless and badly scratched game discs, anyhoo, this is brilliant! the PS2 discs my kids have were just not working and it cost me £2.99 per disc to get cleaned! This product is really worth its money, out of 22 discs that i cleaned with SkipDr, only one refuses to work and even badly scratched discs work! This repair kit is great also because the cleaning spray stores away on top of the machine, the cleaning and buffing cloth stores away in the back of it so it saves you time trying to find it all when next needed! No repetative handle turning on this little baby! Jus plug it in spray disc and place in slot, the disc is ejected after cleaning (about a minute) then all you do is place disc on blue cloth and buff with small the white one, i did find that if game didn't play, i just re-cleaned and it played. It has saved me a lot of money in the long run and it does pay for it's self. I definately recommend this product!

Mr. N. Coleman

Effective, if a little brutal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 15, 2011

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I've had various disk cleaners over the years and not found any of them to be very effective; that said they were not billed as 'resurfacing' devices. I've had my share of damaged media and tried all the tricks, one of the best prior to this was Displex (a product for removing scratches from mobile phone display windows), although this needs caution. So when I discovered this device, it seemed my days of manually buffing out scratches were over - and they are.

I must say however that after the first 'treatment' of one disk, I was surprised just how abrasive this kit is. Don't get me wrong, it's not likely to do any damage but I didn't expect quite the level of abrasion I observed at first use. Maybe this will level out with use. No matter, it did the Job and made my HD-DVD 'Bourne Ultimatum' bought used from Amazon Marketplace playable for the first time in two years of ownership! That is recommendation enough for me, so it gets 5 stars (not the movie though, LOL).

Ian Wantling

A saviour.....! ! !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 15, 2010

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I have three boys and over the course of the past 6 months we established several damaged X-Box 360 games due to laser burn (which I believe are the worse possible kinds of disc damage)...
I promised I would eventually take them to our local Blockbuster who provide a disc repair service - but at £3.99 per. disc. When our total reached 5 damaged discs including 2 copies of Modern Warfare 2 I decided to purchase SkipDr Premier - and boy - am I glad I did !

The one supplied by Amazon came with a free mains adapter and within half an hour all 5 discs were fully repaired and back to working order. One of the discs with a more severe burn needed three 'doses' of the machine, and the burn was still slightly visible even after this, but it was back to working order. You'll need to purchase top-ups of the repair solution and the cleaning disc every so often, but without a doubt this little machine works and will pay for itself many times over.

Nerevar

Gamers- Pay Attention!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 25, 2011

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To be honest, I wasn't expecting a miracle when I first got the SkipDr started. And when I had finished buffing the game after the process, there were still some scratches on the surface. And then it played pretty perfectly. I did it with another game disc, worth as much as the machine I used to fix it. And then I fixed a collection of DVDs that were very badly damaged from continuous watching. They played without a hitch after the SkipDr worked its magic. Why haven't I given it 5/5? Well, it did take slightly longer for both my laptop and PS3 to recongise the discs. That said, they worked fine after a few seconds. Also, there is very little disc cleaning fluid included. I don't know whether the tiny bottle will last the 50-or-so cleans the circular cleaner can do. But for me, something that can cure a very scratched disc almost 100% is a great investment. It has already payed for itself. If, like me, you tend to buy some rarer/highly popular games that are often out of stock when you want them, this is a great way to extend the life (and even rejuvenate the life)of your favourite games. Plus, by the time you've needed to fix it more than ten times, the game will be up for a free, legal download anyway.

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