Small LCD Scratches

[Wesdude]

I'm one of those people that just hate any flaws in things I own. I like prefection. Now my newly bought PSP is giving me some problems with that.

I reciently bought a PSP, came with the cleaning cloth and case. Now I use the psp, works fine and everything, but Sony forgot to mention that the case and the cloth destroy the screen. I blew the dust off before I wiped the screen down, but it still got all scratched up. (From the case probably)

Now I'm stuck with all these scratches, it looks so disgusting in the light. So I was searching google for scratch removers, there are so many. Too many. Some apparently melt the screen down and leave a haze, (I don't want to use those, obvious reasons (Haze)) and some just fill in the scratches, like a wax. This review seemed pretty good, but I was wondering if anyone had any opions on products or methods to remove the scratches.

http://www.psp411.com/show/review/623 was the review.

With that, anyone have any types of scratch removal products, or techniques to remove scratches? These aren't exactly deep scratches, they're like micro spiderweb scratches.

Thanks,
Wesdude

[networkguy]

When and if you do get the scratches removed, get a screen protector, they are quite common for cell phones and I always put one on each new cell phone I get, first thing.

NG

[Wesdude]

When and if you do get the scratches removed, get a screen protector, they are quite common for cell phones and I always put one on each new cell phone I get, first thing.

NG

Yeah I was planning on it. Too much to lose just for not having one.

[M_Prime]

well you like perfection so yeah.. but i wouldn't bother i mean those are normal to appear. i mean any PDA or Gameboy DS will get those from the sylus and what not. also i don't remover the original plastic off the screen until i get a protector, my cellphone has a case and still the original plastic.. and its olmost a year old lol.

IMHO don't use a scratch remover on the PSP first.. if you have something that you don't need like a really old cell phone scratch it up and try it there.. so you can see if you get haze and whatnot.. that way when you use it on the PSP you know ur safe.

also 1 more note.. go to a private video game store.. like in my area there is a VGP(video games plus) which is small but rents games and sells them.

now the people that work there in my opinion have great jobs.. to basically play video games and they know their stuff because i know they also fix systems in their spare time.. and own like every system out there.. (but they don't like the DS.. they abreviate it with DEAD SYSTEM)

[Thaiwoo]

When and if you do get the scratches removed, get a screen protector, they are quite common for cell phones and I always put one on each new cell phone I get, first thing. NG

Yes they are great. Bought them for my first PDA and have been protecting almost any small screen with them. As you mentioned cell phones, cordless phones, digital camera's and even my Ipod.

[Wesdude]

well you like perfection so yeah.. but i wouldn't bother i mean those are normal to appear. i mean any PDA or Gameboy DS will get those from the sylus and what not. also i don't remover the original plastic off the screen until i get a protector, my cellphone has a case and still the original plastic.. and its olmost a year old lol.

IMHO don't use a scratch remover on the PSP first.. if you have something that you don't need like a really old cell phone scratch it up and try it there.. so you can see if you get haze and whatnot.. that way when you use it on the PSP you know ur safe.

also 1 more note.. go to a private video game store.. like in my area there is a VGP(video games plus) which is small but rents games and sells them.

now the people that work there in my opinion have great jobs.. to basically play video games and they know their stuff because i know they also fix systems in their spare time.. and own like every system out there.. (but they don't like the DS.. they abreviate it with DEAD SYSTEM)
Yeah, too bad Sony was too cheap to put plastic on it. If I got some scratch remover, I had planned to use it on an old scratched up gameboy I have. :P

I might check out game place near my house, like you said, they'll probably know how. I might even go to a place like princess auto and see if they have and plastic buffers. People all over sites I came across said things like brasso work. It's a slightly abrasive product, which I don't know about. (The damn haze it would probably cause.)

Like people on multiple sites I posted at said, screen protectors are the way to go. If I get it cleaned up that'll be the first thing I add. Thanks. :D

[Pedar]

Where can you get these screen protectors?

[Wesdude]

Where can you get these screen protectors?

Probably at somewhere like Future shop, EBgames, places like that.

[networkguy]

Pacific mall has many cell phone stores that carry them, I have never seen them at FS or BB.

NG

[Pedar]

Thx I've been looking for some but haven't been able to get my hands on any. Only ones I found were for PDA's and they were pretty expensive.

[Thaiwoo]

Staples sells them too but not cheap. http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?webid=583851&AffixedCode=WW

and FS much cheaper http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10042234&catid=10352

Same for BB

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10042234&catid=20298

They even have specific ones for the PSP's

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10056731&catid=24173

[M_Prime]

screen protectors are easy or hard to find depending for what u need the protector.

PSP is fairly easy to find. also as far as getting the hard to find ones, you can always get a bigger one and carefully cut it down to size.