Salvaging worn cd's...


I've seen stuff on sale in electronic stores that promise to rehabilitate worn cd's.

My question is, are there any products out there that really work for stuff like removing scratches and making the cd's look less worn or even close to brand new?
berzin
IME once you've started with anything abrasive on the transparent face you're on your own out on a limb. The disc may play afterwards or it may not. OTOH treatment with simple cleaners or "impedance matching" fluids like Finyl or Optrix can apparently make it easier for a player to read a scratched disc. I've also had some success making a copy of a damaged disc to CD-R. If it works, the CD-R plays (or plays through) when the disc doesn't.
I have used the DiscDoctor devise on both CDs and DVDs with nearly 100% success.

I also have also copied scratched discs with my computer and the copies would play when the originals would not.

Ken
DiscDoctor works great. In only a few cases, where my kids have just scratched the DVD too much, did it not completely rehabilitate a disc.