Never pay another DVD rewind fee again! Compatible with all disc formats: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CDR, CDRW, Audio CD, VCD. Multi-region, code-free rewinder capable of rewinding all 6 region DVD’s including RCE/REA encoded discs
I’m wondering if we’re at the stage where the joke is missed because the average age of users never experienced the CD.
It’s probably confusing people already who never rented VHS tapes
I’m of the age where I can remember having a load of rewritable cds and DVDs plus those things that supposedly cleared up scratches now those were a scam too.
I used toothpaste and it never seems to completely work
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Gaming disks still exist, also music CD, even vinilos have a comeback.
Thanks. I’m calling my LPs vinilos from now on. (No /s)
There are also rewinders for SP / LP vinilos, I think.
Careful with this meme son, it’s an antique.
Thanks for the “son”, it directly make me feel 10 years jounger, like the first day of my retiree age and still without rheumatism.
Shoutout !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
Oh shit it has MP3 toggle. Sweet.
Last year I spent $787 on Blockbuster charges for not rewinding my DVD’s.
With this I could make money rewinding other people’s DVDs for a small fee.
I HATE THIS PRODUCT!!!
IT DOES NOT REWIND SACDS!!!
MY PINK FLOYD ANIMALS SACD IS STUCK ON PIGS ON THE WING PART 2 HALLLLP
Of course it’s a scam. You can easily rewind DVDS in your DVD player. You don’t need a separate device.
I always used a pen in the hole and turning it backwards by hand, also works.
Reminded me of the scratch removal services some game stores offered
Those were legit, though, you can resurface optical media to allow it to be read again
Yup. The data was encoded on the back of the plastic disc. So long as the “label” surface wasn’t scratched you can resurface the bottom.
It was more common for commercial discs and some consumer discs to have the data layer sandwiched between the bottom surface and label layer, especially later in cd/dvd’s heyday, to prevent tiny scratches on the label or sharpie marks from destroying bits in the data layer.
There was still a wear layer below the data layer which could be resurfaced. So the services worked.
Commonly it worked by removing some material from the bottom wear layer to remove the damaged bits, so it didn’t work forever. You would eventually run out of material to remove and trying to repair it would result in a catastrophic failure of the media.
Writable disks however, not so good.
Those are real though, and do work, as long as the scratches are not deep
More likely a joke product
I remember this. It was definitely a gag gift.
Do they make a Bluray rewinder too?
Look at this dummy thinking they have to rewind blurays like they’re DVDs! 🤦🏻♂️🤣😂
Sorry, I’m old. I’m almost 39, this technology is new to me.
I don’t know about rewind. As a child of the 90’s, you lay that sticky label on there, let your older sibling press the freshly burned disc onto it, and bam, you have a homemade mix CD before Lars can shut down Napster.
As a Metallica fan, I do repent my Napster days, though.
I suspect a few people bought this legitimately. When the CD/DVD revolution happened, a lot of the quattrogenarians spent their entire home video experience inundated with “be kind, rewind” slogans from rental shops. Being fairly frugal and not wanting to pay the extra to have the shop rewind the video for them, they would be obsessed with rewinding a video before returning it. I imagine that some used this unironically to appease their elders into thinking that it was “rewound” before returning rentals. It’s useless, sure, but it would have completed the “rewind” step, preventing the unnecessary (and non-existent) rewind fees for mildly dementia ridden elders during the early DVD era. Just having that extra step would appease their need to do it, and prevent complaints and re-explanations that DVDs don’t need it.
Just put it on the thing, make it spin backwards for a minute, then package it up. It’s useless to explain that you don’t have to do that because they won’t remember it, and the next time they play a DVD, they’ll just be looking for a way to rewind it again.
One of the grocery stores in my town also had video rental. When they started carrying DVDs, they put the “Be kind, Rewind” stickers on the cases.
DVD-ReWindable
I’m sure they sell many. People to dumb these days LOL
There is merit to it, mainly in high speed applications. When you got up to 48x and 52x speeds, an imbalance could result in a catastrophic failure of the material and the disk could lose structural integrity… aka it can explode.
For audio… Not so much. Since audio always ran at 1x speed. Any disk imbalances would be trivial to the ability for the player to read the disk.
I remember when I converted a bunch of CDs to mp3, the “ripping” program would give errors if it was trying to read too quickly, it would result in those slips and cirps you could hear on some mp3 files. Those were literally read errors from when the data was extracted from the original media… though, it could also be imperfections in the disk, or scratches. I ran mine at… IIRC 4x to ensure there were few, if any, read errors. Sure, it took between 10 and 20 minutes to extract all the tracks from a CD, but I didn’t get any audio issues that were so common in early mp3 files.
I imagine that if I had this and used it on the disks for a minute before ripping them to mp3, I could have run it at 8-16x or more with no loss in quality.
For data applications, there’s read checking (CRC) to ensure data integrity. If there’s a read error, the drive will just retry, slowing down as required to ensure the data is consistent. This is why your CD/DVD drive spins up and down while reading data during something like a file copy off of a disk. Eliminating the need to re-read the data can significantly increase the speed of a copy operation.
The disk shaver did work, it was just marketed poorly. For 1x CD reads, it was generally useless.
