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

Ultrium 8 supremacy!

oscillating doormats

alright explain

yeah maybe, but did you ever have to stick a pencil in the hole of a DVD to re-spool it because your diskman chewed it up?

I had a DVD burner that could burn labels while in the drive...lightscribe. I was the coolest.

Those that could afford a Sharpie to rewind them had it good.

…but then you still need to rewind the second side.

Duh.

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.

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

There's even a movie about it: "Be kind rewind"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934

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"

Be kind FRWD

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.

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

This version turns your copy of Shrek into a fucking Beyblade

I had one of those, it was a CD scratch remover / cleaner. It actually worked somewhat - you could restore some discs that were too scratched to use.

It was basically a leather (maybe) band wrapped around the spiral wheel that buffed the CD in a radial motion (center to outer) at the same time that the disc would slowly rotate around a spindle. You'd end up with radial buff-marks all the way around the CD, which looked a little bit similar to the pattern of the blue spiral thing in the center, coincidentally.

I have one of them and it's not in deep storage either haha

It's part of the experience, you either love it or hate it.

And landfill filler ofc