of fingerprints etc. Any recommendations?? I was thinking of getting one of those spin doctors but is that overkill for just cleaning?

Stay away from the spin doctor...all you need are soft cloth wipes which can be purchased anywhere. I clean from the center of the disc out in a straight wiping motion. I do not use any solutions. I handle my disc with care and usually do not have this problem. Others cause this problem for me which really irritates the hell out of me. Anyway....stay away from the spin doctor...use a soft cloth wipe.


I purchased a box of dvd wipes a long time ago....should last you forever.

Use a camera lense cleaning cloth as it won't scratch. Works for me and, as the previous poster said, the only fingerprints and 'muck' I have to clean off are those put there by others when I have picked up disks in trades gggrrrr.

I use a diaper cloth...very soft. I use it for ridding the disc of dust. fingerprints? I cant ever find any.

Well, here's something that has worked for me several times when all else has failed.

I've gotten several used dvd's that were very badly scratched, greasy, etc. - to the point that they wouldn't even load. I tried cleaning them with commercial dvd cleaner/wipes and it didn't help. So what I did was stick them under the faucet running warm water, and washed them gently (across the disc, not around) with a soft cloth (or even a paper towel - the cheap thin ones, not the course heavy ones like brawny, etc) to remove all the gunk, and then patted them dry.

I've done this with about 5 discs that were in really bad shape, and it worked every time. I can't say that I recommend it, because I've only done it as a last ditch effort and because it's probably frowned upon, so take it with a grain of salt and use at your own risk.

Roy

spray with Windex, wipe with t-shirt. Works great.
Of course, the only time I ever need to worry about it is on rental discs.

Anyone else clean rental discs before using them? I don't know what kind of crud could be on them, so I definitely don't want it in my dvd player so I clean 'em first. Is that a bit too much?

I did that, but only when the disc have some problem when I played it. Those stupid renters didn't know how to handle a disc, once they tried to clean the disc with a nail polish cleaner. Needless to say, the disc went kaput.

Bad idea this would surely warp the discs