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Personally, I use the equivalent of Pledge furniture polish (I keep a non-aerosol spray bottle near my computer), but others use dish soap, and other similar (non-chemical) cleaners.

You do NOT want to distort the plastic!!!! The object is to simply clean off the chemical film that builds up ...

Woodstock wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 5:07 pm It is possible that WB packaging is, um, "gassy" and can contaminate disks more often, but the ones I've experienced are generally not WB. The one I have in front of me is a Sentai Filmworks, and it ripped just fine 5 years ago.

What do you recommend cleaning them with?

Only getting longer CAN mean the drive is not able to read the disk, as opposed to not being able to DECODE its encryption.

I'm in the midst of re-ripping all my DVDs and BDs, and have several disks that are currently giving me hell. Some, I just need to clean; others... I'll deal with after I ...

It
It Chapter 2
Cabin in the Woods
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

They just keep going and going and the time remaining only gets longer and longer. I'm a total newbie so please, any info is greatly appreciated.


Clean these discs before trying again and next time ...

It
It Chapter 2
Cabin in the Woods
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

They just keep going and going and the time remaining only gets longer and longer. I'm a total newbie so please, any info is greatly appreciated.