hmmm

I saw this and though it was a battlebot. Damn, but would've been better if it was...

You placed a pad on the surface and it would spin your media and buff out surface scratches.

It wasn’t marketed as rewinding them, but as rewinding time on them. It just used rewind because it was a solid gimmick and it related to how we knew to use VHS.

~~buff out surface scratches.~~ Scratch the shit out of them.
Fixed that for you.
- yes it also had the habit of doing that if you didn’t rinse your discs first.
  Learned that the hard way with disc 2 of xenogears
I am aware that those existed but this thing almost looks more like the spring loaded thingys that you would use to put printed labels on burned discs with.
The buffing ones I seem to remember having more spinny bits rather than just an immobile pad.
- There were sooooo many versions of these.
  The mall “near” me had like 3 different kiosks for different ones.
  My friend had another version that was handheld and used a squeegee rotating thing and worked super well, until it too began to destroy discs.

The very first time I watched a movie in DVD, it really felt I was missing something l, for not having to “rewind the tape”.

I think it’s the same feeling the first time I drove an electric car. We touch the button and there’s no sound, no ‘revving’, nothing. It felt weird.

I think you didn't push the accelerator hard enough then. Boy do I love hearing the whir of my Ioniq 6 passing on a 2 lane road or getting on the freeway.
- I'm with @NullPointerException@lemmy.ca. Sure, (most) EVs are ridiculously fast in straight lines, but there's something missing.
  The first car I ever owned was a "ridiculously fast" muscle car that was sold to me as a favor to my parents. It's a long story, but suffice it to say 16-year old me had no fucking business owning and driving this monstrosity. This very heavily modified, heavily customized, barely street-legal Buick could do 0-60MPH in a "blistering" 5.8 seconds and the quarter-mile in 14 seconds with my shit drag skills. My Buick was especially great at turning large volumes of gasoline into noise and vaporized tires, all while being unable to corner. And despite those very lackluster numbers, it was an amazingly visceral and connected experience. Flat-foot shifting that car felt like a cataclysm. But if you were unsure that the world was ending, the 4-inch straight pipe exhaust underscored that the Fourth Horseman of the Decibels was coming for you. My car required full attention and all four limbs acting in coordination just to drive down the street.
  Now I drive a 2025 Ford Lightning. Completely stock, 0-60 in 4 seconds flat, quarter-mile in 12.5-ish. One foot in use, one finger on the wheel. It's smooth and silent and actually fast in straight lines. Hole shots are consistent. More than that, stomping the throttle is "safe." The tail isn't going to snap out. The tires always link up, almost regardless of the pavement conditions. But there's no visceral experience. Modern cars are mostly soulless, and the Lightning is a glowing example, being borderline joyless to drive, even though I love that this thing is mostly silent. But there will never be anything "classic" or notably characteristic about this vehicle. I ease away from stoplights, drive the speed limit constantly, and only ever stomp on it to pass laggards and left-lane campers.
  "The thrill is gone, baby...
- Oh, I wasn’t talking exactly about the driving part, just when we turn it on. In an ice car, there’s the sound of the starter, the engine accelerates a little and then comes back to idle.
We had a racecar-shaped rewinder. That's another car you'll never get to hear run again.
- Says you! I went to my Grandma's to pick up that exact rewinder. Pearly red with cute little flip-up headlights. Been using it to reset all the tapes I get on ebay.

Oh good. It’s barely readable, but this can thankfully also rewind my MP3 CDs. Doesn’t look like supports standard CDs, though. I’ll have to get an extra just for that.

Reminds me of a similar gadget I had that was just for applying home printed label stickers on burnt CDs

You don't want the fine for not rewinding your rented film.

I rewound to much, do you maybe sell DVD forwarder ?

My mother-in-law searched every store she could find heading up to Christmas in 2002 looking for one. My brother-in-law had put "DVD Rewinder" at the top of his list and she got him in a game of secret Santa.

The worst part was that she had a dvd player and knew what they were... It's been over 20 years and she still catches hell for how hard she searched.

This inventor could sell sand to the Arabs