Damn kids get off my lawn
car downloader.
Back in my day, we had wax cylinder rewaxers.
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.
I had the 52x model.
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
also kids dont know about the importance of blinker fluid for their car and need to always be reminded to buy some
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.
…but then you still need to rewind the second side.
Duh.
Thanfuly, we were always poor as fuck, so this is very strange to actually see
I remember that! It was the first “roomba” I ever bought. Didn’t work very good though.
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!
Looks like an actual device I had for applying labels to burnt CDs. You’d print the labels in your inkjet printer.
I had a DVD burner that could burn labels while in the drive…lightscribe. I was the coolest.
I had that, but it misprinted about half the time, so most of my labels were dog shit.
Oh man I wanted that so bad
Luckily my dad was a tech nerd so we always had new/cool shit to play with.
I had one that could rewind multiple DVDs at once. What a fee saver that was.
Specially for blurays. Idk if this one supports br, but those would take forever to rewind.
be kind, rewind.
Be kind, save and return to main menu.
My grandmother unironically thought you had to do that… She was not a smart lady.
Can someone explain?
Not what it is, I can read but why was it needed at all?
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.
Can’t you rewind them on the VHS in the meantime?
Different technology. VHS rewound magnetic tape using gear rotors. DVDs rewound optic media using spinning lasers.
I miss seeing the disco lights
You better put those photons back in the right order before returning
How? They’re a wave when I’m not looking! They could be… Oh look, there’s one. Nvm.
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
“I have a racecar rewinder, do you?”
Might have been a joke to you.
I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.
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.
I thought it was a joke device but it also allows you to center a disc label properly.
There’s even a movie about it: “Be kind rewind”
That movie is specifically about tapes though
Finest example of industrial poetry.
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”
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?
I wish the kids understood this back then. It made a lot of rentals almost unwatchable.
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.
This is what I had to use to prevent the rental place from fining me for not fully retracting the magnetic spools on my optical media.
Ultrium 8 supremacy!
That’s because if you don’t rewind far enough back, the next person won’t see the unskippable FBI warning and will be immune from the FBI’s effects for the duration of the film.
Thankfully the places with newer stock had the RRW reverse re-wind discs, so it was easy enough to click it forward one step once you got to the end of a disc
Probably the same young kids that REFUSE to buy oscillating doormats, or refill the blinker fluid on rental cars.
GenZ, I tells ya…
oscillating doormats
alright explain
An oscillating doormat sounds like a great invention. Step on it and it vibrates to rub dirt off your shoes.
