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
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.
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
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used to make ones that can do both sides at once, but they were too complicated, expensive and basically immediately outdated when dual layer DVDs came around.
Next you’ll be telling me that the stream rewinder I bought is a scam.
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This cd shaver is totally legit though
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Thanks for the “son”, it directly make me feel 10 years jounger, like the first day of my retiree age and still without rheumatism.
DVD-ReWindable
I’m sure they sell many. People to dumb these days LOL
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.
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 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.
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.
I HATE THIS PRODUCT!!!
IT DOES NOT REWIND SACDS!!!
MY PINK FLOYD ANIMALS SACD IS STUCK ON PIGS ON THE WING PART 2 HALLLLP
I’m wondering if we’re at the stage where the joke is missed because the average age of users never experienced the CD.
Gaming disks still exist, also music CD, even vinilos have a comeback.
Thanks. I’m calling my LPs vinilos from now on. (No /s)
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.
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.
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
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