Damn kids get off my lawn
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.
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.
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.
Probably the same young kids that REFUSE to buy oscillating doormats, or refill the blinker fluid on rental cars.
GenZ, I tells ya…
I remember the real big one for records.
Be kind FRWD
Back in my day, we had wax cylinder rewaxers.
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
To be fair rewinding by hand was much faster by hand if you used your CD/DVD spindle to rewind in bulk!
Kids these days and their PLC NAND flash!
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 2 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
You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.
also kids dont know about the importance of blinker fluid for their car and need to always be reminded to buy some
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.
car downloader.
it says right there, “dvd rewinder”
