Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is

GhostFace@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Might have been a joke to you.

    I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.

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    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “I have a racecar rewinder, do you?”

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    • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I play movies in my dvd player with my wife

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can’t you rewind them on the VHS in the meantime?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Different technology. VHS rewound magnetic tape using gear rotors. DVDs rewound optic media using spinning lasers.

      I miss seeing the disco lights

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      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You better put those photons back in the right order before returning

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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”

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s even a movie about it: “Be kind rewind”

  www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Finest example of industrial poetry.

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  • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That movie is specifically about tapes though

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