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
One of the grocery stores in my town also had video rental. When they started carrying DVDs, they put the "Be kind, Rewind" stickers on the cases.
Of course it's a scam. You can easily rewind DVDS in your DVD player. You don't need a separate device.
I always used a pen in the hole and turning it backwards by hand, also works.
Next you’ll be telling me that the stream rewinder I bought is a scam.
I 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.
Reminded me of the scratch removal services some game stores offered
Those are real though, and do work, as long as the scratches are not deep
Those were legit, though, you can resurface optical media to allow it to be read again
Yup. 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.
It 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.
There 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.
More likely a joke product
I remember this. It was definitely a gag gift.
I was like I don't see what's wrong with that dvd-rewriter...then I noticed what it actually said.
I’m sure they sell many. People to dumb these days LOL
DVD-ReWindable
Careful 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.
There is merit to it, mainly in high speed applications. When you got up to 48x and 52x speeds, an imbalance could result in a catastrophic failure of the material and the disk could lose structural integrity... aka it can explode.
For audio... Not so much. Since audio always ran at 1x speed. Any disk imbalances would be trivial to the ability for the player to read the disk.
I remember when I converted a bunch of CDs to mp3, the "ripping" program would give errors if it was trying to read too quickly, it would result in those slips and cirps you could hear on some mp3 files. Those were literally read errors from when the data was extracted from the original media... though, it could also be imperfections in the disk, or scratches. I ran mine at... IIRC 4x to ensure there were few, if any, read errors. Sure, it took between 10 and 20 minutes to extract all the tracks from a CD, but I didn't get any audio issues that were so common in early mp3 files.
I imagine that if I had this and used it on the disks for a minute before ripping them to mp3, I could have run it at 8-16x or more with no loss in quality.
For data applications, there's read checking (CRC) to ensure data integrity. If there's a read error, the drive will just retry, slowing down as required to ensure the data is consistent. This is why your CD/DVD drive spins up and down while reading data during something like a file copy off of a disk. Eliminating the need to re-read the data can significantly increase the speed of a copy operation.
The disk shaver did work, it was just marketed poorly. For 1x CD reads, it was generally useless.
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It is real if it turns counterclockwise. If not, you have to load the DVDs upside down.
They used to make ones that can do both sides at once, but they were too complicated, expensive and basically immediately outdated when dual layer DVDs came around.
Good one :)
I had something shaped kinda like this that would "polish the scratches" out of your games/cds. Didn't really work lol
They work on light scratches, but anything too deep will damage the data layer. However, you can do a lot with cloth and toothpaste
I don’t know about rewind. As a child of the 90’s, you lay that sticky label on there, let your older sibling press the freshly burned disc onto it, and bam, you have a homemade mix CD before Lars can shut down Napster.
As a Metallica fan, I do repent my Napster days, though.
I'm wondering if we're at the stage where the joke is missed because the average age of users never experienced the CD.
It's probably confusing people already who never rented VHS tapes
Gaming disks still exist, also music CD, even vinilos have a comeback.
Thanks. I'm calling my LPs vinilos from now on. (No /s)
There are also rewinders for SP / LP vinilos, I think.
I'm of the age where I can remember having a load of rewritable cds and DVDs plus those things that supposedly cleared up scratches now those were a scam too.
I used toothpaste and it never seems to completely work
I had one that was a hand crank thing. It actually worked pretty well. Whenever I thought that was it for my Diablo II CD, I would run it though there and Presto: good as new.
My Xbox 1 also had this weird thing where it sounded like it was fucking eating the CD too. If it got too grumpy we would use the crank and boom: back to teabagging people in Halo.
Usually the home versions were scams, but there were better quality ones out there that would remove just a little bit of the top layer, making a smooth finish again. Although deep scratches obviously couldn’t be repaired in this case.
We used toothpaste and water to "cure" CD and DVD scratches lol. I swear, it (seemed like it) worked! 😄
Sometimes it did! I tried it on a disc that was so messed up, I figured out couldn't make it work any less, and wouldn't you know, it worked for the first time in a long time. Other times, not so lucky.
Most toothpaste is slightly abrasive so depending on the scratches it can definitely work as a polish. I'd always steal my dad's special glass polish and it was basically like toothpaste
I learned how to polish glass fiber... It's not any different from polishing anything else, except the "sandpaper" is smoother than normal paper
Toothpaste is an abrasive... Partner it up with finer and finer abrasives and you could get a cd clearer than new
Doesn't the fediverse userbase trend towards being made up of millennials? I'm on the older end of gen Z myself and grew up with CDs and DVDs, so I imagine most people here are familiar with the technology.
I'm on the younger end of gen z and still know what the are, never actually use them but we have lots. I feel most of us know what old stuff like CDs are because of the Internet tho.
I HATE THIS PRODUCT!!!
IT DOES NOT REWIND SACDS!!!
MY PINK FLOYD ANIMALS SACD IS STUCK ON PIGS ON THE WING PART 2 HALLLLP
Last year I spent $787 on Blockbuster charges for not rewinding my DVD's.
With this I could make money rewinding other people's DVDs for a small fee.
Oh shit it has MP3 toggle. Sweet.
Do they make a Bluray rewinder too?
Look at this dummy thinking they have to rewind blurays like they're DVDs! 🤦🏻♂️🤣😂
Sorry, I'm old. I'm almost 39, this technology is new to me.