Microwaves, and stoves are intentionally manufactured for cooking only, and they were not meant to be used for any type of laserdisc cleaning, or repairs in the first place... It foolish. There are repairs kits specially made strictly for this purpose ( without the risk of ruining your software) available at any electronic and department stores.

err.. yeah. i am moving from minneapolis to DC. the frozen part was meant as DVDs sitting outside in the sub-zero temps of MN.

I have fixed 4 or 5 DVDs that would skip (with no noticable scratches) by placing them data side down into a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes.

I know it sounds crazy...but it worked...

Yeah, and this would be a bigger problem for DVDs than for CDs. Because DVDs are 2 layers of plastic held together by glue, whereas CDs are just one layer of plastic and no glue.

man, that sounds crazy.

Take it from me then Brent_MN, it does work more often than it does not.

Do a search on the term Boiling in the Talk Forum and you'll find a few threads by me and other talking out this cleaning / repairing method.

If you can't trust me, who can ya trust?

Where did I write anything about using stoves or microwaves for repairing or cleaning laserdiscs?

I was thinking the same thing and decided to just ignore that post. It's like that person didn't even read the thread!

I'm with you. Apparently, this person can discuss anything but DVDs, but occasionally moseys over here when he's tired of discussing Lance Bass being gay. Can anyone tell me why www.dvdtalk.com has so many forums and threads that haven't a damn thing to do with DVDs??? If that weren't the case (and if there weren't forums where you could talk about boobies), I think we'd have much more intelligent (and intelligible) discussions here.