DVD Rewinder!
January 24, 2007 12:40 AM Subscribe
The perfect gift for the geek who has it all.
I was going to send you a jpg of that the other day. But I only had one left.
posted by hal9k at 12:59 AM on January 24, 2007 [15 favorites]
posted by hal9k at 12:59 AM on January 24, 2007 [15 favorites]
What the hell, $17!?
Screw that. For just $20 I can rewind DVDs, open locked doors, make hot babes get totally naked and disarm thermonuclear bombs.
posted by loquacious at 1:34 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Screw that. For just $20 I can rewind DVDs, open locked doors, make hot babes get totally naked and disarm thermonuclear bombs.
posted by loquacious at 1:34 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Thank you, loquacious. I know what I want for Christmas now. Gawd, I love that show.
posted by brundlefly at 2:26 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by brundlefly at 2:26 AM on January 24, 2007
Well, brundlefly, you can get that show on DVD now... so you'll need the rewinder. (And the circle is complete...)
posted by wendell at 3:04 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by wendell at 3:04 AM on January 24, 2007
Requires a 9 volt battery for use. Explains a lot...
posted by TheDonF at 3:26 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by TheDonF at 3:26 AM on January 24, 2007
The battery is for you to lick while watching your porn. It isn't required for rewinding.
posted by srboisvert at 3:30 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by srboisvert at 3:30 AM on January 24, 2007
What, no USB interface?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:07 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:07 AM on January 24, 2007
The perfect gift for the geek who has it all.
I humbly beg to differ.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:08 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
I humbly beg to differ.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:08 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
I humbly beg to differ.
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GALVATRON how the fuck could they screw that up any worse!?
SHOCKWAVE. THE IPOD HOLDER NEEDS TO BE THE ONE CALLED SHOCKWAVE. HE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING BOOMBOX. HE USED SONIC WEAPONS. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK MERCURY, IT WILL NOT TURN YOU INTO A CYBORG. OH HOLY CRAP.
posted by loquacious at 4:38 AM on January 24, 2007 [9 favorites]
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GALVATRON how the fuck could they screw that up any worse!?
SHOCKWAVE. THE IPOD HOLDER NEEDS TO BE THE ONE CALLED SHOCKWAVE. HE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING BOOMBOX. HE USED SONIC WEAPONS. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK MERCURY, IT WILL NOT TURN YOU INTO A CYBORG. OH HOLY CRAP.
posted by loquacious at 4:38 AM on January 24, 2007 [9 favorites]
Say what you want, loq - at least there were 3 Voltrons: One made out of 5 robot lions, one built from 15, fucking 15 cars, boats planes and trucks, and, uh...3 smaller robots that was admittedly kinda lame.
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:55 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:55 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
How the hell did you get your Voltron in Transformers? You were one of those queer kids who always wanted to play Go-Bots when all the other kids had Transformers, weren't you?
posted by loquacious at 5:02 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by loquacious at 5:02 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Is this compatible with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as well?
posted by Chocomog at 5:11 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by Chocomog at 5:11 AM on January 24, 2007
I had the ghetto Voltron, the one with all the cars. My neighbor had the cool one with the robot lions, stupid spoiled only children.
posted by splatta at 5:12 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by splatta at 5:12 AM on January 24, 2007
loq: they could've screwed up worse by calling him 'optimus prime'. and really, this ipod dock looks more like 'god magnus' than anything else.
seriously though, they should've went with shockwave. not blaster tho, he's too urban.
/me puts down his mug of mercury.
also, f you. i've been drinking this stuff for weeks and i'm totally 'borged up.
posted by jcterminal at 5:31 AM on January 24, 2007
seriously though, they should've went with shockwave. not blaster tho, he's too urban.
/me puts down his mug of mercury.
also, f you. i've been drinking this stuff for weeks and i'm totally 'borged up.
posted by jcterminal at 5:31 AM on January 24, 2007
Dude, that lurching you're doing? It's not the borg within, man, it's severe nervous system damage.
Oh, fuck it. Hey, did you know that lead paint chips are sweet like delicious candy?
posted by loquacious at 5:44 AM on January 24, 2007
Oh, fuck it. Hey, did you know that lead paint chips are sweet like delicious candy?
posted by loquacious at 5:44 AM on January 24, 2007
did you know that lead paint chips are sweet like delicious candy?
Of course I did! That's why I gave jc my Voltron camera.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:49 AM on January 24, 2007
Of course I did! That's why I gave jc my Voltron camera.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:49 AM on January 24, 2007
Heh, and in the past few months all three of the big corporate video stores near me closed.... mwhahahahaha!
posted by R. Mutt at 5:49 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by R. Mutt at 5:49 AM on January 24, 2007
THE IPOD HOLDER NEEDS TO BE THE ONE CALLED SHOCKWAVE.
loquacious - You mean Soundwave, of "Eject Eject" fame, right? Because Shockwave was a gun. There was also Blaster, who played real tapes!
posted by brownpau at 5:51 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
loquacious - You mean Soundwave, of "Eject Eject" fame, right? Because Shockwave was a gun. There was also Blaster, who played real tapes!
posted by brownpau at 5:51 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
And then there was that time Blockbuster accused me of sneaking a tape back onto the self in order to avoid a late fee... sigh.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:57 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by R. Mutt at 5:57 AM on January 24, 2007
Oh man, mom is going to love this, maybe even more than that thing I got her that lets her listen to Side 2 of all her cds.
posted by The Straightener at 6:05 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by The Straightener at 6:05 AM on January 24, 2007
While we're at it, let's not forget the Futuretech CD/DVD Demagnetizer, the serious audiophile's weapon of choice.
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:19 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:19 AM on January 24, 2007
I do remember hearing music come out of my Blaster toy. Maybe it was the AM/FM stereo.
posted by brownpau at 6:41 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by brownpau at 6:41 AM on January 24, 2007
For the tech hip, the DVD Rewinder also has an additional MP3 port and plays a separate “rewind” sound. WTF?
posted by kozad at 6:44 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by kozad at 6:44 AM on January 24, 2007
I would use it to play a recording of "YOU CANT REWIND DVDS YOU FUCKING IDIOT HAHAHA I CANT BELIEVE YOU'RE USING THIS CRAP OH GOD YOU'RE SUCH A FU- rewinding done! please flip disc over."
posted by tehloki at 7:10 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by tehloki at 7:10 AM on January 24, 2007
Yeah, I'd hold off the DVD rewinder until the HD format wars shake out.
posted by Muddler at 7:12 AM on January 24, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by Muddler at 7:12 AM on January 24, 2007 [2 favorites]
Smart Dalek:
Is it wrong that I can no longer spot satire in audiophile equipment? I mean, at the point where you're eying $30,000 speaker cables, well, I don't know what to tell you. But I will offer to personally degauss any CD's you think have been contaminated withharmful toxins magnetic interference, for only $5 apiece!
I can't promise to rewind them before returning them, though.
posted by Mayor West at 7:19 AM on January 24, 2007
Is it wrong that I can no longer spot satire in audiophile equipment? I mean, at the point where you're eying $30,000 speaker cables, well, I don't know what to tell you. But I will offer to personally degauss any CD's you think have been contaminated with
I can't promise to rewind them before returning them, though.
posted by Mayor West at 7:19 AM on January 24, 2007
A few years ago a woman I know asked me completely seriously how to rewind CDs when she was done with them.
posted by planetkyoto at 7:30 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by planetkyoto at 7:30 AM on January 24, 2007
i guess horrible technology has still gotta eat
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:36 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:36 AM on January 24, 2007
Has everyone here completely forgotten the plastic voltron, with removable pilots?
posted by drezdn at 7:37 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by drezdn at 7:37 AM on January 24, 2007
A few years ago a woman I know asked me completely seriously how to rewind CDs when she was done with them.
And, and, and, this one time at Taco Bell, I tried to buy a chalupa with a two dollar bill, and, and, and....
posted by popechunk at 7:39 AM on January 24, 2007
And, and, and, this one time at Taco Bell, I tried to buy a chalupa with a two dollar bill, and, and, and....
posted by popechunk at 7:39 AM on January 24, 2007
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**WARNING DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED, January 24, 2007
Reviewer: Steve Silberman (California) -- See all my reviews
I bought this DVD rewinder for my teenage nephew Nathan last Christmas, who has a huge collection of rare discs by Pixar and the White Stripes. I figured it would save him time, plus he would like the "hip" look of this device, which goes with his lime-green iPod nano. But after trying to rewind dozens of DVDs, he found that while the "rewind" sound was loud enough to wake up his aunt and me from a sound sleep, this device did not work at all! I even returned it to the company after finding their call center staff extremely rude, and the next one they sent didn't work either. Now Nathan and his friends think we are "clueless nubies." NOT recommended!!!!
posted by digaman at 7:42 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
**WARNING DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED, January 24, 2007
Reviewer: Steve Silberman (California) -- See all my reviews
I bought this DVD rewinder for my teenage nephew Nathan last Christmas, who has a huge collection of rare discs by Pixar and the White Stripes. I figured it would save him time, plus he would like the "hip" look of this device, which goes with his lime-green iPod nano. But after trying to rewind dozens of DVDs, he found that while the "rewind" sound was loud enough to wake up his aunt and me from a sound sleep, this device did not work at all! I even returned it to the company after finding their call center staff extremely rude, and the next one they sent didn't work either. Now Nathan and his friends think we are "clueless nubies." NOT recommended!!!!
posted by digaman at 7:42 AM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
Several years back, rather early in the DVD era, I was working a second job on the graveyard shift of an alarm monitoring company. One of my co-workers, a woman in her early fifties, came in beaming one night because her son was buying her a DVD player, and she would finally get to see what several of us had been raving about for the past few months.
The next night, instead of her chirpy mood from the previous shift, she seemed kind of annoyed and irritated. Eventually, she told us why she was irked - she suspected her son had gotten ripped off and picked a crappy DVD player, because she had messed with it all night and could not find a button to rewind the damned disc when she was finished.
A few of us glanced at each other with raised eyebrows, wondering if anyone wanted to explain that one...
posted by John Smallberries at 7:46 AM on January 24, 2007
The next night, instead of her chirpy mood from the previous shift, she seemed kind of annoyed and irritated. Eventually, she told us why she was irked - she suspected her son had gotten ripped off and picked a crappy DVD player, because she had messed with it all night and could not find a button to rewind the damned disc when she was finished.
A few of us glanced at each other with raised eyebrows, wondering if anyone wanted to explain that one...
posted by John Smallberries at 7:46 AM on January 24, 2007
Does this count as a double post if I've already asked about in the green? I doubt it.
posted by feelinglistless at 8:03 AM on January 24, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by feelinglistless at 8:03 AM on January 24, 2007 [2 favorites]
I mean, at the point where you're eying $30,000 speaker cables,
damn, but people are stupid ... just how many recording studios have those? ... or the $125,000 speakers?
so, if the people who record, mix and master the music don't use equipment like that, how is that music going to sound "better"?
posted by pyramid termite at 9:25 AM on January 24, 2007
damn, but people are stupid ... just how many recording studios have those? ... or the $125,000 speakers?
so, if the people who record, mix and master the music don't use equipment like that, how is that music going to sound "better"?
posted by pyramid termite at 9:25 AM on January 24, 2007
I should gte that for my coworker who preheats the microwave. Seriously. Yep, he's an engineer.
posted by Green Eyed Monster at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by Green Eyed Monster at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2007
*get
posted by Green Eyed Monster at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by Green Eyed Monster at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2007
Audiophile equipment increases in cost by orders of magnitude in proportion to the naivit[ay] of the buyer. That's the only way I can wrap my head around it. Yes, somehow, good old copper wire needs to be blessed by the sound pope to deliver "true" sound quality. Oh, and god forbid it touch the ground. You'll want some cable isolators with that. Can I also interest you in a 500 dollar solid oak volume knob? I guarantee it'll increase the soundabilerifity of your system by a factor of 40 cubits. That's right, sir, 40 whole cubits. You'd have to be a fool not to take advantage of this deal!
posted by tehloki at 9:55 AM on January 24, 2007
posted by tehloki at 9:55 AM on January 24, 2007
tehloki writes "I would use it to play a recording of 'YOU CANT REWIND DVDS YOU FUCKING IDIOT HAHAHA I CANT BELIEVE YOU'RE USING THIS CRAP OH GOD YOU'RE SUCH A FU- rewinding done! please flip disc over.'"
But if you flip the disc over it'll unwind itself and you'll have to rewind it all over again, duh :-)
That "dvd rewinder" gag is about as old as the dvd itself, isn't it?
posted by clevershark at 12:05 PM on January 24, 2007
But if you flip the disc over it'll unwind itself and you'll have to rewind it all over again, duh :-)
That "dvd rewinder" gag is about as old as the dvd itself, isn't it?
posted by clevershark at 12:05 PM on January 24, 2007
30,000$ speaker cables? Not even if the cable got up and pleasured me to a explosive climax every time I played music.
What sort of idiot buys this sh*t anyway?
posted by clevershark at 12:08 PM on January 24, 2007
What sort of idiot buys this sh*t anyway?
posted by clevershark at 12:08 PM on January 24, 2007
I'm waiting for the manufacturer to confirm hd and blu-ray compatibility.
posted by dbolll at 12:45 PM on January 24, 2007
posted by dbolll at 12:45 PM on January 24, 2007
loquacious - SHOCKWAVE. THE IPOD HOLDER NEEDS TO BE THE ONE CALLED SHOCKWAVE. HE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING BOOMBOX. HE USED SONIC WEAPONS. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
How about something like this? It's a MP3 player as opposed to a dock, but still.
posted by Diskeater at 12:46 PM on January 24, 2007
How about something like this? It's a MP3 player as opposed to a dock, but still.
posted by Diskeater at 12:46 PM on January 24, 2007
I...uh. This is so weird that I have nothing to contribute. It's just...wow.
posted by etoile at 1:25 PM on January 24, 2007
posted by etoile at 1:25 PM on January 24, 2007
loquacious - You mean Soundwave, of "Eject Eject" fame, right? Because Shockwave was a gun. There was also Blaster, who played real tapes!
Oh holy crap. *hands brownpau his geek cred card* Tear that up, will you?
How about something like this? It's a MP3 player as opposed to a dock, but still.
That's MUCH better. Ok, it's pretty pointless. But it has a working SD card slot in the tapewell!
posted by Diskeater at 12:46 PM PST on January 24
Hrm. Eponysterical?
posted by loquacious at 2:31 PM on January 24, 2007
Oh holy crap. *hands brownpau his geek cred card* Tear that up, will you?
How about something like this? It's a MP3 player as opposed to a dock, but still.
That's MUCH better. Ok, it's pretty pointless. But it has a working SD card slot in the tapewell!
posted by Diskeater at 12:46 PM PST on January 24
Hrm. Eponysterical?
posted by loquacious at 2:31 PM on January 24, 2007
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