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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GhostFace@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Can someone explain?
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Goun@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Can’t you rewind them on the VHS in the meantime?
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Different technology. VHS rewound magnetic tape using gear rotors. DVDs rewound optic media using spinning lasers.
I miss seeing the disco lights
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You better put those photons back in the right order before returning
Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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”
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks 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.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
There’s even a movie about it: “Be kind rewind”
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Finest example of industrial poetry.
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That movie is specifically about tapes though
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Might have been a joke to you.
I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“I have a racecar rewinder, do you?”
osanna@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
I play movies in my dvd player with my wife