UMD Care 101: Keep 'em clean

Posted Mar 17, 2006 at 5:26PM EST by QJ Staff

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Sony made the unfathomable decision not to equip UMDs with the same sort of protective sliding shutter MiniDiscs come with.  This means that UMDs are far more damage-prone than MDs could ever be.  So users have to make a constant effort to keep their UMDs as clean and fingerprint-free as possible.

UMD cleaners generally fall into two classes, the simple sort you operate by hand and the somewhat more complex motorized ones.  In general the hand-operated sort are cheaper than their motorized competitors, but some people believe that it's far from feasible (or even reasonable) to clean UMDs manually, so they go for the battery-operated sort of cleaner like the one pictured at right (which, by the way, is manufactured by Digital Innovations).  

In order to get the most out of your UMDs, make sure to keep them as pristine as possible, and be gentle with them.  (Manhandle them badly enough to scratch them or worse, and no amount of cleaning'll be enough to save them).

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# great — psmo290 2006-03-17 18:38

i have some scratches on my lumines umd but it still runs fine

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# corporate trash 2006-03-17 18:38

just dont touch the open space like a dumbass + keep them in the case when yer not using them an they will stay good

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# Fear mongering — Lexiticus 2006-03-17 18:53

Ya never had a problem and i take out and put in games ALL THE TIME



Fox news should recruit who-ever wrote this..

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# koolio — Ryan9104 2006-03-17 19:04

Looks Prett Kool. This would be very useful for when you rent games from block buster because i frequently get dirty disc and spend forever cleaning them so i can play a ****ty game.

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# got it — The Pierced Weirdo 2006-03-19 17:52

Got it. Love it. It works like a charm on games that other people don't know how to handle. The lens cleaner is amazing too. My place gets pretty dusty.

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