D-Skin protective disc covers
File something else under the "I wish I had thought of this" category. This weekend while purchasing tickets at the theater I was given a five pack of D-skin covers. What are D-Skin covers you may ask? They are clear plastic covers that clip onto your CD/DVDs and protect them from being scratched or smudged. They can be left on at all times and don't affect playback while protecting your discs. They add hardly any bulk, which means they will work with both slot-loading or tray-loading drives. I tried them on my DVD player and in my car and everything worked without a hitch. The only problem I ran across was when I tried using covered discs in my iBook. Things felt a little too snug with the covers, so I didn't push them all the way in and risk them getting stuck. I'm sure they would go in, I'm just worried if they would spin or come out...so I'll let some other brave soul figure out if they work in slot-loading laptops.
From browsing all of the online stores it looks like a pack of five will run you 5-6 dollars while a pack of 20 will set you back 17-20 dollars (I found the best price at Amazon). If the price was half this amount I'd run out tomorrow and cover all of my CDs. As it stands now I'll probably only use them for discs that I play in the car. If you're rough with your CDs or worry about your discs getting scratched up this is definitely the way top go, especially since there is little hassle once you've snapped the covers on.
why use this when a cd-r costs less than 50 cents?
Posted by: papercut | 12/09/2004 at 06:41 AM
Well other than the fact that it would be a royal pain in the neck to copy every single one of my CD's so I could have them in the car, there's the issue of protecting my DVD's as well.
Posted by: Izzy | 12/11/2004 at 02:52 PM
They work well however, they are not worth the current price.
I'll continue working on protecting my money, and use my disks with better handling care.
Posted by: Slautterback | 12/21/2004 at 03:41 PM
Does anyone know the title and artist of the song that's played in the D-skin commercial. It's the commercial where the hitchiker in the desert gets picked up by a trucker. The trucker is listening to a song that goes something like " I've got a new??" "so hot she burns you hands". I'd really like to know who sings the song if any of you can help me. CJ
Posted by: CJ | 12/25/2004 at 01:54 PM
Those d skins are great, I have kids who like to watch dvds and before the dvds used to get scratched really bad now there is not one scratch on the new dvds. I found great price on a 50 pack of d_skins $29.99 at www.danitergifts.com
Posted by: Koolmoedee | 03/15/2005 at 12:55 PM
don't buy d skins. they ruin cd players. lexus's in specific. it jams the whole thing and cost 700.58 $ to replace! never buy one! it's the worst hting in the world
Posted by: DONALD | 01/25/2006 at 10:03 PM
I cant get these things to work on x-box games at all. They seem to work on cd's fine but not video .
Posted by: JSparks | 08/06/2006 at 02:47 PM
donald, if you read the packaging, it says dont use them in slot loading cd players.
Posted by: chris | 06/29/2007 at 12:07 AM