Damn kids get off my lawn
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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Can someone explain?
Not what it is, I can read but why was it needed at all?
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
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 have a racecar rewinder, do you?"
I play movies in my dvd player with my wife
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.
There's even a movie about it: "Be kind rewind"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934
Finest example of industrial poetry.
That movie is specifically about tapes though
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.