• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    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.

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        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

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      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.

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        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.