College Hacks: How to Clean Your Blu-Ray/DVDs?

By Joel Brown on November 18, 2017

What do you get when you put toothpaste, vaseline, Q-tips, cotton balls, baby wipes, and a piece of toilet paper together with a DVD that has been scratched and smudged up?

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A good cleaning solution.

Although we live in the digital age, rolling in-and-out the old movies with new ones that we seem to steward in an endless, streaming digital collection, you should still have a DVD and internet collection of movies.

However, if you’re like me and collect the DVDs of movies than you’ve probably experienced this before. You just have put in a DVD to watch a movie, it plays, yet halfway through the movie it starts glitching (pausing and shuttering). Lost in a puzzle, you stop the movie to eject the DVD and when you pull it out to turn the disc over, you find smudges and scratches all over it.

So what do you do?

Grab these six items: toothpaste, vaseline, Q-tips, cotton balls, baby wipe, and a piece of toilet paper — or you can just take the DVD with you to the bathroom to do the following instructions that I’m about to tell you for keeping your CDs/DVDs clean, so they can continue to function properly over time.

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First, squeeze some toothpaste in dabs and gently smear it around on the backside of the DVD with a Q-tip until the disc is covered.

Second, take a baby wipe and gently wipe off the excess of the toothpaste from the back side of the DVD.

 Third, gently dry the disc with a piece of toilet paper in a clockwise motion.

Fourth, get another Q-tip again, dipping it in some vaseline to lightly smear a coat around the disc until the whole DVD is covered with the vaseline.

Fifth, take a piece of toilet paper and gently wipe off the excess of the vaseline in a clockwise motion until all of it is almost gone.

Sixth, then take a cotton ball and polish the backside of the DVD as you will see that the smudges and/or scratches have vanished. If pieces of the cotton ball get left behind on the DVD disc than just take a piece of toilet paper and gently dust it off in a circular motion until it looks clean.

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There you have it: a nice, clean DVD. Now pop that thing in your DVD player and it should work just fine.

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