What is the absolutely best way to preserve my laserdiscs?
Excerpted from Bob Niland’s (rjn@csn.org) LD#13: The care and feeding of laser videodiscs The following narrative of LD care is in life-cycle order. The part 1 scenario presumes that you have just bought a disc. If it is a factory-new disc, or still in print, and can be exchanged, I do NOT recommend the part 2/3 repair procedures (not listed in this FAQ). Exchange the disc. Disclaimer: These are the practices that I follow. The industry at large doesn’t seem to have any. These practices are not warranted in any way whatever, and this series of articles is partially intended to provoke discussion and counter-suggestions. Prerequisite: you need to know that the video data for side “X” is on the opposite side of the platter from the label for side “X”. Also, LDs play from the inside to the outside. Myth: LDs are indestructable. You can handle them anyway you like. The laser can read right through fingerprints, smudges and scratches. The myth is false. The laser has a limited tolerance for
