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
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
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.
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
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.
I used toothpaste and it never seems to completely work
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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.
Gaming disks still exist, also music CD, even vinilos have a comeback.
Careful with this meme son, it’s an antique.
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Oh shit it has MP3 toggle. Sweet.
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.
I HATE THIS PRODUCT!!!
IT DOES NOT REWIND SACDS!!!
MY PINK FLOYD ANIMALS SACD IS STUCK ON PIGS ON THE WING PART 2 HALLLLP
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.
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.
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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.
More likely a joke product
Reminded me of the scratch removal services some game stores offered
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 sure they sell many. People to dumb these days LOL
Good one :)
I had something shaped kinda like this that would “polish the scratches” out of your games/cds. Didn’t really work lol
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.
