Do you wash rented discs before using them?

Usually just wipe them down with a soft cloth and then stinkpalm them before the return.

lmao!

seriously though, after cheking them I use a soft cloth too if needed.

I rarely clean mine. If I happen to notice a glaring fingerprint or smudge (and now I think I know where those come from..... not naming any names darthrsg), I'll wipe it off. But I've never given one a bath.

Cloth for me, too. I don't want to wait for any cleaning solution to dry before putting it in the player. I also try to get a disc within the first two weeks of release, as after that it starts getting scratches, in my experience.

Although MY disks are kept pristine with no smudges or scratches, rental disks rarely are.

The only time I will clean one is if there is a problem during playback (which is hardly ever).

This is what I do, too. Unless there is an obvious smudge on the playing surface, I just pop the disc in my player. If there is some messiness on the disc, though, I clean it with screen cleaner and a microfiber cloth.

I don't really stinkpalm them. I've gotten a couple that I wondered about though. One had red fuzz and tiny fingerprints all over it. It was so bad I didn't watch it.

I never look at the bottom of the disc, unless there are playback issues.

This is where my OCD kicks in. I check them every time before playing. I guess it came about when the ex-wife use to grab the ones we own and leave whole finger and palm prints on them. I almost put that down in my divorce papers as a reason but common sense got the better of me.

I guess it would be better than making an issue of putting a roll of toilet paper in backwards.

That she got right but she did have a habit of not turning off the lights in a room when she left. Before you knew it, every light in the house was on (apologies to the Trace Adkins song of the same name.)

Hey , my wife loves to leave a cabinet door slightly ajar every time she takes something out of it....

LOL, my wife does the same thing and I am alway following her around turning 'em off.

My mother drilled that into me as a kid....
I can still hear her yelling "TURN OFF THOSE F_CKING LIGHTS!!!"

My wife always complains I never put anything away....and I always completely deny it.

I don't rent discs very often, but when I do I always clean them. Never know what messy bugger had them before...

Seggers

Its rare that I find one that is so dirty it causes problems during playback, but I always check before inserting it into the player. However, I don’t clean them if I don’t see any need to. Unlike the SD discs of old, you can’t just insert a BD and resume play, at least you can’t with the majority of them, so it’s a royal PITA to stop a movie, clean the disc, and start the entire process over again.