Disc-Go-Tech Has Cure for Scratched CDs/DVDs?

-- Library Journal, 7/18/2005

With the popularity of CDs and DVD on the rise, libraries are facing an old dilemma in a new technology: items being returned damaged by careless patrons. It doesn’t take much to scratch a CD-or DVD causing discs to freeze in players. Disc-Go-Technologies has the answer: the Langley, BC-based company markets a series of machines that buff scratches out of discs. Models range in price from $395 for the small table-top (7.5” H x 6.75” W x 8.75” D) Disc-Go-Pod, which cleans a single disc in roughly five minutes, to the massive Disc-Go-Mech, which cleans up to 225 discs per hour and leases for roughly $1200 monthly. Disc-Go-Tech told LJ that the average CD/DVD can be repaired as many as 50 times before the disc is worn down to the program level and needs to be discarded. Repairing scratched discs 50 times rather than constantly replacing them will make the machine pay for itself very quickly. Any library that lends discs would benefit from owning one of these units.

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