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Originally Posted by BarryB

I don't see how the DVD will get damaged seeing as there is no physical contact with the disc when in the drive, it's a laser ya know

actually, there is, the disk has to be spun around, on some crap drives (esp ones that are warped / have dirt on the tray etc), damage can happen when the disk is spun up, leading to scratches, ususally the error correction hardware on the drives can rectify this 'damaged data'.. sometimes it doesnt though...

the worst time for damage is the spin up cycle.. but really, if you have dirt on the cd/dvd tray, then you should clean it.. the onus is on the owner to ensure the drive is actually 'operational'...

its worth pointing out though that such damage is very very rare...
its happened on some xboxes though ...