Home > Memorex Optifix Motorized CD/DVD Cleaner and Scratch Repair Kit
 | Price: $19.15 Manufacturer: Memorex  |
Product Description
Personalize, Protect and Organize All Your Memorex DVD's and CDR's with Memorex Labeling Kits, Labels, DVD Storage Cases and Jewel Cases.Customer Reviews
BROKE AFTER ONLY A FEW USESI've been looking for a CD/DVD repair kit for quite some time and stumbled upon this at Target. While it didn't fix all my discs, it did work with a few of them, mostly in the clean cycle. The device has a lot of working parts and its box is not at all easy to open and re-close again, so the hassle is very upsetting. It contains two clean disc pads and two repair disc pads that you have to change every time you use it. You put the discs onto three tabs, then twist them until it clicks and the tabs hold the discs in place. Kind of a lot of work, but not unacceptable. However after about a month of use (probably used it ten time), the cheap plastic tabs that hold the discs in place broke off when I twisted the clean disc pads on, rendering the entire machine worthless. I'm taking it to Target for a full refund. I can't believe that companies go to the hassle of designing devices like this with such cheap parts!!! Stupid, stupid, stupid!!! Last Memorex purchase from me, for sure!
worst $20 I ever spent
This thing is flat out garbage. Its loud, requires buying extra parts after cleaning 20 cds, and fixes them as well as spitting on them and wiping it off with a kleenex.
Do not bother
I had a lot of used CDs I was selling for someone else and had to clean a lot of them, so I wanted something motorized. I was looking for Aleratech but Walmart had it online only, not in my store, so I bought this Optifix instead - MISTAKE.
1.) The pads very hard to lock in.
2.) The cleaning and/or "repairing" are no more effective than you could do with a soft cloth and a little Windex.
3.) It is annoyingly LOUD.
4.) It only rotates the disc in one direction - others I have seen reverse half way through the cycle.
5.) The Repair Solution smells like mildew - so you have to clean that off with Windex and a cloth anyway, or another change of pads and a cleaning cycle.
6.) I suspect this product is too cheap to have good manufacturing tolerances because the complaints range from no cleaning to swirl damage, which shows big variations in pad pressure between different units.
Only good feature I can say is that it runs on an AC adapter rather than batteries.
And to the clown that thinks all the bad reviews are from some conspiracy looking to give Memorex a bad name -- I want my $22 back.
If you want to be ripped off buy this
This product is garbage. I've used disc resurfacers that cost less and worked much better. The memorex Opti-fix is worthless. It doesnt even touch the smallest of scratches. poor product... very very poor. DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE!!!
Bulky, loud, unimpressive
This was a sale item, and as I had lots of DVDs to restore, I thought a motorized device would do the trick. I was wrong. The feel of this product is very cheap, and the size of it quite large for the measly bit of repair it does. Its larger than an early gen. cd player. Not really very important to its functionality, so lets move on.
The cleaning heads are 2 rotating pieces of plastic with green and white cloth on top, on which you are to pour a drop of cleaning agent before beginning the cycle. you are provided with 2 extra cleaning heads and the cleaning fluid. The heads are placed inside, followed by the dvd or cd you want to clean, laying above them. The device is closed much like a cd player. Plug the device's bulky power adapter in and press the button, and wait. Its agonizingly loud as it spins the cd and cleaning heads. After a minute or so, you check the disk out. Generally, it takes 3-4 spins before any improvement can really be noticed.
I dont really see the advantage of this product over a mechanical cleaner. The motorized nature of this just makes it bulky and loud, but adds nothing to the cleaning ability of it. I would recommend just buying a less expensive repair device that you spin manually, or going for something more advanced that spins the disk faster or uses a better cleaning mechanism.
