D_skin is a protective cover for DVDs, a scratch guard for optical media. Unlike the hard to apply, sticky film protectors you are familiar with, the d_skin clips on and can therefore be replaced when you scratch it.
There is, however, a problem. The d_skin cost more than the DVDs it protects. At $12 for a five-pack, they come in at around ten times the price of DVD-R blanks. Of course, if you buy pre-recorded DVDs, in the form of movies and video games, the price ratio of this replaceable prophylactic improves. But the product site pushes this as a cover for your regular, home made media, even touting the fact that you can burn a disc with the skin in place.
The real problem is optical media in general, though. DVDs are low capacity, expensive and easy to damage. There are two reasons we still have them — DRM and poor bandwidth. The former is due to shortsighted paranoia on the part of content producers, the latter is due to greed on the part of the cable and internet providers, who insist on capping and slowing data on their networks.
So, if you haven’t already backed up your Xbox games onto a hard drive somewhere, you might want to grab some of these. OR, you know, learn to hack and just burn them to another blank DVD — it’ll be cheaper.
Product page [d-skin via Core77]
