What kind of cloth to wipe DVDs (1 Viewer)

[John*Wells]

Would I use to wipe smudges or finger prints off of dvd discs?

 

[Clinton McClure]

Some people swear by camera or eyeglasses lens cleaning cloth. Personally, I’ve always just breathed on the discs to put some light moisture on the fingerprint or smudge then wiped gently in a straight line from the center hole to outside edge with my t-shirt. I’ve never scratched or damaged a disc (cd, dvd, HD-dvd, Blu-ray, or 4K UHD Blu-ray) this way.

 

[John*Wells]

I purchased the Star Wars 4K complete collection and the phantom menace is freezing and skipping on the 4K disc. I’m hoping I can fix this by lightly wiping the disc

 

[John Dirk]

A clean microfiber towel should be all you need. With discs the important thing is how you wipe them. Always from the center, out. Never in circles.

 

[jcroy]

A clean microfiber towel should be all you need. With discs the important thing is how you wipe them. Always from the center, out. Never in circles.

Definitely.

If one knows how exactly the error correction code is implemented on cd/dvd/bluray/4Kbluray discs, one will understand immediately why wiping in circles is very bad for discs.

 

[John*Wells]

Definitely.

If one knows how exactly the error correction code is implemented on cd/dvd/bluray/4Kbluray discs, one will understand immediately why wiping in circles is very bad for discs.

So from left to right like mr. Miyagi with the paint the fence motion, right?

 

[jcroy]

So from left to right like mr. Miyagi with the paint the fence motion, right?

Ideally from the center to the outside perimeter. This minimizes issues with "burst errors".

Circular damage on discs will really overwork the error correction mechanism on burst errors.

Burst error-correcting code - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[John*Wells]

So far all appears to be well. Only 2 brief pauses after using the micro fiber cloth. The first time it skipped 9 times