Damn kids get off my lawn
We couldn’t afford that. We had to put our DVDs on our finger and spin them backwards
Those that could afford a Sharpie to rewind them had it good.
I think I’m too old to know what this is…
The legacy lives on - nowadays I have to rewind my FLAC tracks.
It’s part of the experience, you either love it or hate it.
We laugh, but this was an actual product.
This version turns your copy of Shrek into a fucking Beyblade
I had one of those, it was a CD scratch remover / cleaner. It actually worked somewhat - you could restore some discs that were too scratched to use.
It was basically a leather (maybe) band wrapped around the spiral wheel that buffed the CD in a radial motion (center to outer) at the same time that the disc would slowly rotate around a spindle. You’d end up with radial buff-marks all the way around the CD, which looked a little bit similar to the pattern of the blue spiral thing in the center, coincidentally.
Never seen one like that. The video store I worked at had one that was huge and looked like an alien ware PC. You put the disc in and after a deafening horrendous noise for what felt like a full 60s or more you’d pull out an astonishingly well cleaned near scratch free disc. I didn’t actually put 2 and 3 together that the DVD cleaner was of course buffing and so inherently destructive and I thought it was kinda neat so for a little while there I started buffing discs with only superficial damage that hadn’t had complaints 😳.
The awful noise it used to make got worse and worse over the lifetime of the machine too. Crazy thing. Did it’s job really well though.
Yeah. I had an automatic version. It was basically a pair of ultra-fine sandpaper wheels, and some buffing wheels for a finishing pass. The wheels would spin while the disc slowly rotated, using the ultra-fine sandpaper to remove the surface layer of plastic (where the scratches were) and then the buffing pads would smooth things over a little bit so the surface was smoother.
It definitely still left circular buff marks all over the surface of the disc. But it at least helped get rid of the random scratches that would cause discs to fail to read.
I have one of them and it’s not in deep storage either haha
Never understood the point in this. When you flipped the DVD to the other side to play the other half it naturally rewound the first side. Such a scam.
…but then you still need to rewind the second side.
Duh.
Back in my day, we had wax cylinder rewaxers.
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing are a steampunkish punk band that actually put out a release on wax cylinder in 2010. It was one of the first new ones in decades and if I remember correctly it was quite the effort to get someone with a functional antique machine to put it back to production.
be kind, rewind.
Be kind, save and return to main menu.
My grandmother unironically thought you had to do that… She was not a smart lady.
I had the 52x model.
We had one of those. But then there was the fire incident. I thought in my childhood innocence years that burning CDs was a metaphor
This is what I had to use to prevent the rental place from fining me for not fully retracting the magnetic spools on my optical media.
That’s because if you don’t rewind far enough back, the next person won’t see the unskippable FBI warning and will be immune from the FBI’s effects for the duration of the film.
They were theoretically able to copy the digital media with impunity, the courts were powerless to stop them!
Thankfully the places with newer stock had the RRW reverse re-wind discs, so it was easy enough to click it forward one step once you got to the end of a disc
Ultrium 8 supremacy!
I had one that could rewind multiple DVDs at once. What a fee saver that was.
Specially for blurays. Idk if this one supports br, but those would take forever to rewind.
Looks like an actual device I had for applying labels to burnt CDs. You’d print the labels in your inkjet printer.
I had a DVD burner that could burn labels while in the drive…lightscribe. I was the coolest.
Oh man I wanted that so bad
Luckily my dad was a tech nerd so we always had new/cool shit to play with.
I had that, but it misprinted about half the time, so most of my labels were dog shit.
You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.
it says right there, “dvd rewinder”
Probably the same young kids that REFUSE to buy oscillating doormats, or refill the blinker fluid on rental cars.
GenZ, I tells ya…
oscillating doormats
alright explain
An oscillating doormat sounds like a great invention. Step on it and it vibrates to rub dirt off your shoes.
I can see this being abused by the throngs of sexually disinhibited youth roaming our calm suburbian streets at night looking to get off.
Can someone explain?
Not what it is, I can read but why was it needed at all?
its a joke device that was a meme at the time of the transition to disk media. not meant to be taken seriously.
now time to go back to my racecar vhs rewinder
Might have been a joke to you.
I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.
That’s good for you, but I still live in fear for the day Netflix figures out I never rewinded any of the movies or series I watched.
“I have a racecar rewinder, do you?”
I play movies in my dvd player with my wife
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You had to rewind VHS. Then VHS got replaced by DVD, but unfortunately most early DVD players did not have a rewind function, thus this device.
Can’t you rewind them on the VHS in the meantime?
Different technology. VHS rewound magnetic tape using gear rotors. DVDs rewound optic media using spinning lasers.
I miss seeing the disco lights
You better put those photons back in the right order before returning
How? They’re a wave when I’m not looking! They could be… Oh look, there’s one. Nvm.
There’s even a movie about it: “Be kind rewind”
Finest example of industrial poetry.
That movie is specifically about tapes though
It is not needed. There were old VHS tape rewinders that people used, and this is a play on those.
“Ha ha, gotta rewind the DVD”
That’s a myth. DVDs tend to lose synchronicity if you don’t rewind them and always turn them the same direction. Why do you think there is subtitle timing adjustment in most media players?
I wish the kids understood this back then. It made a lot of rentals almost unwatchable.
It’s obviously becsuse different drives spin at different speeds so you may need to adjust the way it reads the disc so it plays back properly and not all sped up or down.
