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
bigkahuna1986 ( @bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ) 35•3 months agoCareful 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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 15•3 months agoIt is real if it turns counterclockwise. If not, you have to load the DVDs upside down.
Slovene ( @Slovene@feddit.nl ) 13•3 months agoDo they make a Bluray rewinder too?
Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English12•3 months agoReminded me of the scratch removal services some game stores offered
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 13•3 months agoThose were legit, though, you can resurface optical media to allow it to be read again
itsonlygeorge ( @itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ) 7•3 months agoYup. 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.
andrew ( @andrew@radiation.party ) 5•3 months agoIt 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.
MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English1•3 months agoThere 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.
lauha ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) 12•3 months agoMore likely a joke product
nednobbins ( @nednobbins@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months agoI remember this. It was definitely a gag gift.
Digger9850 ( @Digger9850@programming.dev ) 7•3 months agoI’m sure they sell many. People to dumb these days LOL
MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English6•3 months agoI 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.
yeehaw ( @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ) 6•3 months agoI was like I don’t see what’s wrong with that dvd-rewriter…then I noticed what it actually said.
TTH4P ( @TTH4P@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months agoGood one :)
I had something shaped kinda like this that would “polish the scratches” out of your games/cds. Didn’t really work lol
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoThey work on light scratches, but anything too deep will damage the data layer. However, you can do a lot with cloth and toothpaste
darkpanda ( @darkpanda@lemmy.ca ) 3•3 months agoNext you’ll be telling me that the stream rewinder I bought is a scam.