Skin Your Discs!!! Yes, You Read Me Right.

http://www.d-skin.com/home.html
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A while back there was a news story about Bill Gates saying that cd's dvd's and video games would be obsolete by use of discs because of the scratch factor, but that is all about to change.

d_skin™ Protective Disc Skins™ are a totally new, totally necessary product that acts as a protective Skin™ for all your favorite discs. Once your discs are skinned, there is nothing to take off to play your discs, nothing to put
on when you store your discs — one product protects them all the time!

How do you use them? Just snap one of these onto your music, movie, game or data CD’s and consider them protected. The amazing Liplock Seal™ snaps onto the edge of any standard size disc and holds tight. Leave your d_skin™ Protective Disc Skin™ on while you play away — outside and inside your media players. Seriously. Your discs are totally readable right through the Skin™.
The beauty is, once your discs are skinned, if you scratch them, you just toss the dammaged Skin™ and snap on a fresh one. Your entertainment survives!
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like the idea though it hardly seems practical. At that $5.99 for five skins? Don't they realize I can get 100 CDs for 16 bucks and just make copies of all my CDs. And when the copies get scratched throw them away and make a new one?
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, I guess it might be good for expensive 19.99 DVD's.

Thanks for the heads-up D.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This was done a long, long time ago, but vanished...
There used to be a product that was a mylar type of film, or vinyl or some such and it worked like those static cling stickers. Came out and then promptly dissappeared. I seem to recall.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They're available at Best Buy too. I'm going to pick up a few that's for sure. If they're only $5.99 for five, that's a bargain for my DVD's. Or my WinXP Pro system disk.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Its not like you have to buy em. People will prboably buy 1 pack for burned DVDs or very important CDs, but music has CD cases, games are mountable images on a nice external HDD, and movies can go in another DVD's case
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Trademark signs, overuse of exclamation marks and superlatives.

I think I'll pass.

Serious protection would be an extra layer of coating around the disks.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Okay this is how I view it. Sure it's easy to copy music and data with a burner but what about the PS2 , Gamecube, and XBOX games that you usually pay $49.95 for if they are the popular choices. To say that you wouldn't pay $5.99 to protect $250 in games is insane. I'm heading to Best Buy later to get tons of them.

Especially with the release of Halo 2, Need For Speed Underground 2, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas right around tghe corner.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I saw a commercial for that on TV. I definitely need that for my PS2 discs (and any other ones I allow near my brother).
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just be careful with your discs... No need for a protective 'skin.'
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think it's a great idea: the price is worth it to avoid the inconvenience of having to replace damaged CD's
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
These may come in useful for blue-ray dvd's when the technology is released. You dont exactly want to loose 27gb's of Data easily...
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Protection for cd's? What does everyone do with them? Feed them to the dog or write on them on the wrong side of the disk? Just be careful with your disks: always put them back in their boxes or sleeves and they won't get scratched.
My opinion on these protective disks: expensive rip-off.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The problem though, if you scratch the top of the disk it's unrepairable, but if you scratch the bottom you can fix it.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
sounds like a good idea. I too, am not sure about the price, but I much rather not recopy my data back to disks once a disk is scratched up.

I think the botom line is that if you really have important data to keep save, you will get this product. I too am getting Grand Theft Auto, Need For Speed, Burnout2, Spiderman2, Grand Turismo 4 and other games and I would rather keep them as safe as possible.

sometimes just putting them away is not enough, especially if you keep using the disk.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Heh, I could buy these to prevent CDs from getting scratched which rarely to never is bad enough that it hurts how it plays. OR! I could buy a tube of baking soda toothpaste for $1.99 and just fix the CD...
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't know what kind of CD/DVD Player you guys are using. But, mine has a plastic bottom.Just moving the tray in and out and placing the CD/DVD in the tray seems to casue scratches over time. One dollar to protect a $250.00 WindowsXP Pro CD doesn't seem to much to me. Or one dollar to protect a $19.99 DVD movie. One can only buff the scratches out a few times. After that, the play will be effected. I think its a great idea and a good investment.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Way too expensive. Maybe when they're $10 for 100, considering that all of us already have perfectly good cd cases and whatnot.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Skin™ .....OK...which twit trademarked 'skin'?  I'm betting it's the same sod who stole 'Ugg Boots'....
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Interesting concept however, let's see how the disc skins are received after a jam in an auto-load cd/dvd player or cause a hang in a standard-load cd/dvd player. Personally, I think if you use common sense and protect your discs and create & use the backup copies, you'll be fine. I can think of plenty of other computer-related things I could invest in with the money saved by NOT purchasing "5 for $5.99". Hmm... if they were 50 for $5.99.... well...
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
just because you see a ™ on a name doesn't mean it's a valid ™. We had our patent attorney's do ours and it takes like 6 months to go through. I think companies slap a ™ on stuff without really registering them with the trademark office
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I agree with the comments above - is this product called 'Skin TM' or 'Skin'? and why do they seem to think the the word 'skin' is classed as a trade mark? When I read my suncream bottle, it doesn't say "for all skin ™ types" !!

It really gets on my tits. I'll make sure I don't buy these and tell everyone how Irritated ™ I got at the damn advert.

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