How to protect your Child’s DVD’s from Damage

I ran into this problem last Christmas when my wife and I bought our 3 year old his own DVD player (well actually Santa brought it). The DVD player went into his room and he quickly learned how to pick his own movie and use the remote control to start it. What he could not do well was handle the DVD’s without getting fingerprints, chocolate, candy etc on the DVD. Since I don’t have a DVD recordable disc drive in my computer, I was forced to buy a second Elmo DVD when my son ruined the first. Then late spring I found “d-skins.” They are plastic covers that fit over your DVD and still plays in the player. What a fantastic invention. They are disposable so you can remove them when they do get dirty and you save the heart ache and pain of trying to replace your child’s favorite movie. I copied the following from the d-skins website:

“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 CDs 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 damaged Skin and snap on a fresh one. Your entertainment survives!”

Available at Game Stop, Best Buy Circuit City, Wal-Mart and many other electronics and gaming stores.

The downside to the product is that they don’t work in every DVD player and I found that they only work in single players that the shelf extends out of the machine in order for you to play the DVD in. It’s still a worthwhile product and I bought a pack of 20 d-skins last spring and still have about half the container left. This is a must for anyone wanting to preserve the movies you have bought. If you have used this product or know of other interesting products, please comment.