Some of you are too young to know what this is

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• osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  be kind, rewind.

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Be kind, save and return to main menu.

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My grandmother unironically thought you had to do that… She was not a smart lady.

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I had one that could rewind multiple DVDs at once. What a fee saver that was.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Specially for blurays. Idk if this one supports br, but those would take forever to rewind.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Probably the same young kids that REFUSE to buy oscillating doormats, or refill the blinker fluid on rentals.

  GenZ, I tells ya…

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    oscillating doormats

    alright explain

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      An oscillating doormat sounds like a great invention. Step on it and it vibrates to rub dirt off your shoes.

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• RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We couldn’t afford that. We had to put our DVDs on our finger and spin them backwards

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Those that could afford a Sharpie to rewind them had it good.

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• Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    …but then you still need to rewind the second side.

    Duh.

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• areakode@riskeratspizza.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you kidding me? I remember rewinding DVDs like it was yesterday…

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Looks like an actual device I had for applying labels to burnt CDs. You’d print the labels in your inkjet printer.

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  • UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I had a DVD burner that could burn labels while in the drive…lightscribe. I was the coolest.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh man I wanted that so bad

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I had that, but it misprinted about half the time, so most of my labels were dog shit.

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• GhostFace@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can someone explain?

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

      Might have been a joke to you.

      I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “I have a racecar rewinder, do you?”

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

    www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Finest example of industrial poetry.

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    • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That movie is specifically about tapes though

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I remember the real big one for records.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Be kind FRWD

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• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Back in my day, we had wax cylinder rewaxers.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing are a steampunkish punk band that actually put out a release on wax cylinder in 2010. It was one of the first new ones in decades and if I remember correctly it was quite the effort to get someone with a functional antique machine to put it back to production.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I had the 52x model.

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  • portuga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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

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• ZMoney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We laugh, but this was an actual product.Image

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  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This version turns your copy of Shrek into a fucking Beyblade

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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 3 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.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have one of them and it’s not in deep storage either haha

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The legacy lives on - nowadays I have to rewind my FLAC tracks.

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  • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s part of the experience, you either love it or hate it.

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• Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  kids dont know about the importance of blinker fluid for their car and need to always be reminded to buy some

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• mastod0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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!

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.

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• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it says right there, “dvd rewinder”

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  car downloader.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thanfuly, we were always poor as fuck, so this is very strange to actually see

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• diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Image

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• DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s an obvious grift is what it is.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And landfill filler ofc

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I remember that! It was the first “roomba” I ever bought. Didn’t work very good though.

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• Leather@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think I’m too old to know what this is…

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oooo, I’ll take three!

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