Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #793 in Computer & Video Games
• Model: UHDL-01
• Released on: 2006-06-23
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .50" h x 3.50" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Protect your DS Lite with these official Nintendo licensed screen filters. Manufactured using a top quality triple layer composition, as well as ensuring your DS Lite screen remains scratch free, the filters will also reduce glare and feel noticably more comfortable on the touch screen. Pack also includes bonus cleaning cloth.

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

Difficult to attach
First, I have to acknowledge that they offer good protection once properly on. They're made from some kind of stiff but flexible layered plastic and silicone that even before attaching you can feel the durability. The top filter is anti-glare and actually makes the screen look crisper and brighter, and the bottom filter doesn't seem to pick up scratches, although it lacks the antiglare layer of the top as that would impede touch sensitivity.

The problem is they are extremely hard to attach cleanly even on a new DS. Even in an apparently dust-free environment there are particles whizzing around, and I can guarantee that between removing backing and placing the filter, at least one dust particle will appear either on the sticky strip or the DS screen, and they show up terribly.

Removing the dust is actually easy - as the instructions show, you re-lift the filter and use sellotape to pad the dust off, which somehow leaves no residue no matter how many times you do it. The difficult part is lifting the filters back up. I found myself scrabbling at the edge with my nails, which in turn creates more problems because now the corners are all finger-greased up, which can be sellotaped off again but it's a continuous circle. The other problem is that while the top screen is easy to align the filter to because it is flush with the lid of the ds, the touchscreen filter is hard because the screen is recessed with a lip. This also makes the re-lifting process harder still. On the plus side, air bubbles are easy to remove by just ferreting them across the screen and out the edge with the stylus.

However in fairness I can not give them only 3 stars, because once you have managed to attach them without trapped dust, which is ultimately your own mistake, they do exactly what theyre supposed to very well. So I give them 4.

Difficult installation
I've bought a few just incase I mess up or the protector get's scratched easily. To be honest installation on the top screen is really easy with the tab to peel off the plastic sheet behind the protector, but with the bottom screen there isn't a tab to peel off it is more difficult to remove the backing sheet so it is hard to avoid turning it around on the adhesive side without getting dust on that side which turns into air bubbles when you install it on the screen.

Another problem is the deepness of the bottom screen which makes aligning a bit more difficult.
I've also found the bottom screen is very prone to scratches but at least it's not scratching the actual screen itself!

Dont waste your money
I cant believe this has been given a license by Nintendo.
As soon as i took the covers to the sticky side off they instantly got specs of dust all over them.
Applying them is a right pain as well with all the air bubbles you get from the last side you're putting down.
The end result for me was a screen that looked worse off than before. Sure it may have been "protected" but who wants to play on a dull and slightly dusty screen?
It's far easier and better to just keep the screen clean which I've been doing with screen wipes for a while anyway.
The only good to come of this was the bonus cleaning cloth that works pretty well and isn't liquid based like what I've been previously using.