I own and use one of these. I don't burn discs as often as I used to so it largely sits there. But when I need one, I hit that little lever and there's the disc. It solved no problem but it's cool anyway.

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

"Solves no problem but it's cool anyway" sums up a LOT of a my collection

@p_mouse8676

Жыл бұрын

@@LGRBlerbs understatement of the year hahaha 🤣👍🏻

@AvengerDK

Жыл бұрын

@@LGRBlerbs Isn't that the concept of LGR Blerbs? 😅😆

@arlandi

Жыл бұрын

"It solved no problem but it's cool anyway" this is probably an honest tagline for bunch of products

@gibland4

Жыл бұрын

It DOES solve a problem though, and that's wasted time, in a sense. The "problem" you're solving is the few extra seconds it would take to: -remove lid from spindle -remove a single disc from said spindle -put lid back onto spindle Instead, you just press the button and you have a disc. It's not a LOT of wasted time, but it's still wasted time as opposed to this product.

I had a teacher with one of these EXACT models from CompUSA. It was for a class where every 2 weeks we would take a Friday class session to review, critique, and do a copy/burn backup of our project work. They had a 100pack of Verbatim CD+Rs that we would churn through often. They had this dispenser for them and it was SUPER handy to not have to pick up the stack (especially when full) from a shelf, open jankingly, and place back. This would sit in the same spot and each of us students would just flip and pick up a disc from the dispenser. This was about 2003 I believe and the burners were in, beleive it or not, old Mac G4 cubes! Thanks for giving me a trip down memory lane.

@AfterBurnerTeirusu

Жыл бұрын

My teacher had one with a different brand name. It was the exact same product though.

@clairekholin6935

Жыл бұрын

I think this would only be really useful in school or business situations.

@gerald8573

Жыл бұрын

Perfect scenario for this product (aside from small businnesses) I was wondering who would need this but thanks to your explanation I totally get it!

@thewolfin

Жыл бұрын

@@clairekholin6935 piracy

@jasongalloway4645

Жыл бұрын

We didn't have anything like this where I went to school, but that or a public library was the exact use case when I first saw this.

A nerd feeder. (Yes, it reminds me of those pet food dispensers) Schedule your computer nerd's ripping needs by setting times for a cd or dvd to pop out the bottom. Fun for everyone!

@ScottGrammer

Жыл бұрын

That name should be trademarked!

@cmdraftbrn

Жыл бұрын

nerd feeder, patent pending

@TheOtherBill

Жыл бұрын

@@cmdraftbrn *pended

@apathyzen9730

Жыл бұрын

Imagine it sounding in your head with Clint's voice. Neat! :)

@therealswarvey

Жыл бұрын

And every time you dispense a disc, Clint's duke voice over plays. Come get some, who wants some, damn those alien bastards are gonna pay for burning up my cd-r's

For some reason the first thing this brought to mind was those Ninja Turtle figures with the pizza disc launchers. 😅

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

ooh crap I always wanted one of those as a kid

@rutgerb

Жыл бұрын

@@LGRBlerbs i found one in a thrift shop and gave to my goddaughter who loved it.

@thelaughingmanofficial

Жыл бұрын

Or the Pizza Launcher vehicle they had, used batteries and launched the pizza discs really far.

@Coolman13355

Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite toys. I like where your head's at.

There was a time in my life when something like this would have been INCREDIBLY handy to have. I used to burn like crazy back when I actually had a reason to. Now it's pretty rare I burn anything.

@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784

Жыл бұрын

700mb / 4.7GB is pretty tiny by todays standards ... but back in the day CD-R / DVD-R burners were the coolest of gadgets on the PC scene

@PeugeotRocket

Жыл бұрын

@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 I was the first one in my high school to get a CD burner back in the day and let me tell you, everyone was jealous and constantly asking me up to burn them music CDs. And going from backing up files on a 1.44 MB floppy to a 700 MB CD was a total game changer.

@GmrLeon

Жыл бұрын

I stand by the position that ripping & burning are two of the coolest/funnest verbs associated with computers. Totally support continuing the practice if for no other reason than retro-sneakernet shenanigans.

@MrWolfSnack

Жыл бұрын

Same here. I quit burning DVD's because movies are dirt cheap now on DVD (not the $25-$40 they used to be) and my ISP has more security lockdowns on the pipeline and they know when I torrented a movie. I have been downloading movies since 2005 with no problems then all of a sudden in 2021 they started cracking down and I started getting copyright notices in the mail.

To keep dust off of the discs, lets dispense them in a way that forces you to grab them in a way that puts fingerprints on the bottom.

@nickwallette6201

Жыл бұрын

Nothin gives you a quality burn like a disc that has light abrasion and finger oils on it before its first use!

@davidmcgill1000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah strange choice to have it fall out the bottom instead of get pushed out a slot on the side.

@andyshap

Жыл бұрын

I don't think you get it. You dispense it and hold it by the hole and the edge. Zero abrasion and no finger oils.

@coopercummings8370

Жыл бұрын

There is a cutout to let you grab it with a finger through the hole and one on the rim, I don't know why you wouldn't just take the lid off the spindle and leave it off though, the side you don't want dust on faces down anyways

So glad this video also answers the question of what happens to a patent once it finishes pending (it becomes pended). 😂

@mrfrenzy.

Жыл бұрын

I guess it was denied by the patent office, so they could not write Patent Pending any more and certainly not Patented :)

I can see this as useful for smaller tech companies from the early oughts where they'd burn individual CDs of software for customers rather than have a TON of CDs with possibly outdated software versions to dispose of.

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

still better for the discs to stay on the towers they come in, though

Kind of reminds me of a device we had for the self-service kiosks when I worked in a photo lab, except what we had was an external burner with the dispenser mechanism bolted on top. In theory, if a customer wanted to burn a CD, the drive would eject, the dispenser would drop a disc into the drive tray, which would then close and start the burning process. When the burn was done, the device would pick up the disc, close the tray and then drop it into a receiving tray . In reality, the mechanism almost never worked, and it was just easier to manually hand the customer a disc and burn it using the kiosk's internal drive.

@ryancope6731

Жыл бұрын

That was for a Kodak kiosk. I still have the whole external unit for a kiosk, big yellow external drive looking thing. I scrapped it like 15 years ago.

I think the nice part of this is later in the years, a lot of cost reduction was done to eliminate the spindle, and cover and just had the blanks shrink-wrapped. (not that anyone who has blown through blanks for years wouldn't have spare spindles in a closet somewhere) So I can definitely see how late life usage this would be actually kinda helpful!

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

Now that'd be a solid use case.

@adampope5107

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember CD-Rs not coming in a spindle unless you were buying a five pack or something. Was this like super late in the reign of burning CDs?

@sickregret

Жыл бұрын

Thats what I thought too. As someone who STILL buys blank cds/dvds alot of time they are just stacks wrapped in shrinkwrap now.

@stephenluttrell8958

Жыл бұрын

That actually does make sense.

@horusfalcon

Жыл бұрын

@@adampope5107 They are on the shelf in 25-packs at a Wal-Mart near you...

I too miss CompUSA, and their line of branded products. I remember buying more than a few of them! Now seeing it in action it is kinda neat. To load it easier, I might try turning the spindle of discs upside down in the lid, sitting the dispenser on top and then flip the whole thing before adding the locking ring.

@theinitiate110

Жыл бұрын

I miss CompUSA too. Luckily I live where there’s a brick and mortar MicroCenter.

@alextirrellRI

Жыл бұрын

@@theinitiate110 We have a Micro Center about an hour north of where I live. I don't get to make it up often, but it's almost like stepping into the past. It's still very old-school -- but with (mostly) modern supplies.

Several stores down here had them, they would sell CD-Rs individually. The cashier would pop one out, put it in an envelope and off you went. Can't remember the price but I wanna say 50 cents or a dollar each. This was circa 2003ish.

Firstly, your eventual joy when you rapid-fired discs was a balm for my soul! Also, I imagine the nominal reason for this was to keep dust out of the stack and avoid knocking it over since the lid stays in place when loaded on the dispenser.

I love when (even easy) manual tasks are accomplished by a button press.

It is absolutely oddly appealing. I've never seen them before, but I think I suddenly can't live without one. lol

I have been living without one of these all my life and now I'm starting to question how I've survived. On a more serious note, another fun use that came to me would be to fill it up with a stack of shareware discs and various CD-ROMs in no particular order. You know the kind of discs that you somehow strangely have accumulated over the years, but you're not sure how exactly and that you've always been meaning to have a look at one day. Well, just fill it up and pop it within reach and whenever you feel like it, take a disc from your personal CD-ROM lottery machine.

@MezzoForteAural

Жыл бұрын

I just bought a random stack of Anime demo discs that used to come from magazines. That sounds like it would be fun to fill this up and play one randomly when bored. Maybe find some shareware disks to for variety. Great idea!

@horusfalcon

Жыл бұрын

@@MezzoForteAural Just make sure all those anime demos are wholesome, or put this dispenser where the kids can't get at it.

in the 2000s i remember companies like princo selling packs of 100 CDs without a plastic tray and cover. the whole pack would be all shrink wrapped and then where would you put your blank cds? you'd just keep the thing ripped open on the corner of your desk and risk spilling all the cds on the ground. that's where this becomes useful.

@Crow.Author

Жыл бұрын

Except it doesn’t come with the clear plastic chute, you’d still have the same problem.

@MrWolfSnack

Жыл бұрын

@@Crow.Author You're meant to use the dust lid from the CD spindle as the top to this dispenser. Why they didn't just include all that with it I don't know.

Happy Birthday! I hope you enjoy your celebration and enjoy your holiday! Thank you for making such amazing and enjoyable videos

Growing up and being a teenager in the early aughts with Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, and Bearshare.... CD burners were everything. The possibilities were endless.

Happy birthday and happy holidays! Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Happy Belated Birthday! Watching you find a reason to love this gadget was endlessly amusing!

I'd load it from the spindle upside down and place a nice soft cool crab mousepad underneath to gently catch the disc. Awesome!

This device seems dumb but it saved my marriage. I was required to burn CDs and I was always super stressed about lifting the lid and pulling one single cd out... Over and over and over. Until one day I snapped. Our marriage counselor recommended the device and now I'm celebrating 20 years with my wife!

Happy Birthday!! Enjoy the Holidays!! Thanks for the great videos. \m/

I have 3 of them for a long long time and I find them very useful. They stand on a shelf and taking a disc is so handy. One tip put them in upsite down, at that point the first to come out will never get dusty on the write side even after years.

This is not only the best thing ever, this is the best video ever! thanks for the content clint! love ittt

14 year old me would have thought that's the best thing since windows XP.

Clint being amazed by something so pointless but cool is the best part of my day.

I have one coming up on the 24th. Have Merry Christmas, Happy New year, and Happy Birthday!

If you think we’re here for a disk dispenser, that’s incorrect, we’re here because YOU’RE talking about a disk dispenser. Thank you for years of awesome content!

If I had seen this back when CDs were more of a thing, I would have 100% bought and used it

damn. i would have loved to have something like that back in the day. didn't even know it existed...

I used something very similar to this in the 90s at Boeing when we'd have to go in on a weekend and upgrade 500 pcs. IT Services would burn 500 copies of some patch (!!) and we'd each be given a preloaded CD dispenser. We'd walk down the rows of the desks pop a CD, insert it, start the upgrade program, and then move on to the next desk. Four or five guys could upgrade 500 PCS in about an hour start to finish. Then they finally moved to network upgrades and we never had to do that again. That brought back some good memories. Good times, lol.

Happy birthday and Merry Christmas LGR. 🎂🎁🎄🎉

Haha. I didn’t have 1. I had TWO! 😊 Still got them in a box in my attic 😂

Pointless, yet somehow kinda neat. Thanks for showing, Clint. And happy birthday.

I don't know how I ever survived without this. I will run to my local CompUSA store immediately to get one.

LOL I love it. especially the non-compusa branded one that says "Desirable" on the top! Happy Birthday!

I don't even have an optic drive and I want one of these dispensers. I went through many writable CDs in my youth. I still have almost all of them in a box of CDs in the closet, with the CD contents scribbled in Sharpie on the front. I remember one holiday we visited my aunt and uncle, and he had a massive music collection of 700+ CDs, so I spent the entire trip ripping as many of the CDs as I could. I had an MP3 player at this point that I used for daily commutes to school, but it was like 1GB or less so it wasn't practical to store entire albums on, so the CD collection still played a huge role.

This is an example of solving a problem you didn't know you had.

Happy Belated Birthday Clint! Keep up with these videos so that we can experience these oddwares without paying for one! 😆

My dad had not one but three of these in my parent's computer office room from 2003-present. One for CDs, one for DVDs, and one other for either dual layer or some other specialty disc. We went on a lot of family trips with our digital camera and my grandpas and grandmas would always want copies of our photos so we would burn discs as copies for them plus extras for us as archive copies filed away in big storage bins. Very handy and definitely they were well used in their time!

Saw this go uplast night, then dissappear. Glad to actually get to watch it this morning.

Was a tech in a PC repair shop and we used these a lot. Since we burned 5-10 discs per day, or more, made it easy to grab discs while doing other things.

Haha, how funny, the Pez dispenser of optical discs!

Yay got a bit sad that when we clicked on the video it was taken down so glad you put it back up , awesome 😊

Happy Birthday! Mine is on Sunday, have a great one!

Happy birthday and Happy holidays :)

A short little blerb and video is good Clint honestly you are amazing

I love it. You have to unload them first, then load it so you can unload them one at a time. This is peak performance here.

@jrstinkfish

Жыл бұрын

Probably would make more sense to turn the container of CDs upside down, remove the spindle, attach the dispenser to the plastic cover and then turn the whole thing right side up. Still a weird device, but seems an easier way to load it.

Happy Birthday, Clint!

An artefact of the past!

Thank heavens for this. I can't tell you how tired I am of having to lift a blank disc off of a spindle. This will save me second -s- out of every year!

I have never seen or heard of one of these and now I need one.

in the late 00's i had the task of burning a bunch of "demo reel" DVD-Rs for a VFX company. this seems like a cheap but effective tool to simplify the workflow a little bit if you are burning a dozen+ discs one after another.

Happy birthday buddy! 🎉

This device solves a problem no one was having. Brilliant.

Happy early birthday, Clint!

Yes, I bought three of these back on '06 under the original EZ-disc name, used them pretty regularly for storing blank DVDs and CDs till around 2013 or so when I stopped needing to copy audio CDs for work and DVD movies for home use. These were great when you are just bulk copying an audio CD/DVD and popping them into sleeves after burning, saves time picking up the spindle twisting off the top and putting it back down, without the discs getting dusty or dropped/spilled on the floor. And yes it's so simple a mech that they still work and are storing my remaining blank discs to this day for the once a year or so that I need one.

That smacks of the VCR rewinders and other semi-gag like trinkets you could buy for your nerd friend. "Oh you burn lots of CD-Rs, so they'd love this doo-dad!"

We had something similar in our server room back in the late 90’s. The build quality was a little nicer that the one you showed, you would push down on a button to release the disk rather than pull back the lever. We had it mounted above the cd rom burner and so if you opened the cd rom drawer the pushed to get a disc it would land 9/10 times onto the drawer. Very cool. We also had a set of marks to show when the office jr should reorder more disks.

@GmrLeon

Жыл бұрын

This gave me a terrible idea for rapid internal storage ejection, whereby you use a vaguely similar mechanism to disconnect & pop out hard or solid state drives to take them on the run or something(???). Wouldn't _really_ serve a major practical purpose, but would be kinda cool.

If I were still burning discs I would totally want one of these.

Have one of these since early to mid 2000s, and I love it.

I would legit use something like this even now. I imagine if you were to take it apart you could design and 3d print a better one that maybe doesn't potentially damage your blank media before you even use it.

@LarsJacobsenDK

Жыл бұрын

I say put a solenoid in there, and hook it up to a Raspberry PI. Then write some software that can trigger the solenoid, and an app for your phone so you can eject a disc from there. How is that for a New Years project?

Hope you have/had a great birthday!

I got three of these without CompUSA branding from Microcenter many years ago. I still use one at work since I routinely burn security footage for accidents, case files, and law enforcement. Unfortunately, it’s the only one I have left since being at work saved it from one of my sister’s bipolar “I’m bored enough to toss out all my brother’s junk” episodes where she mistook them for empty cake boxes that she didn’t approve of me keeping. The reason each dispenser had an empty cake box attached was that I would often buy a new stack of blank discs that didn’t come with one… or came in one that was incompatible with the disc dispenser. The dispensers obviously required a cake box and it was actually getting difficult or impossible to buy the discs you needed in a compatible one, so you had to save the old one at least until you got more discs to know whether or not you needed it. I originally bought them almost two decades ago and it was almost a decade ago that my sister threw them out. I found more on Amazon but I never ordered them. Those weren’t CompUSA-branded either.

Slightly more useful than the disc rewinder. Just a note; the box does say to dispense discs one at a time, so if they get scratched up, that's on you for getting happy with the dispenser switch.

Hey Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The exact same device can be found under many different names all over the internet in on-line stores. Amazon seller has it listed under the name "EZ Disc". I did a search for 'cd disc dispenser' and all kinds of items appeared... and they all looked like the same thing! BTW.... I have 4 of these on my PC desk. Have had them for many years.... they still work fine!

I don't understand why I love this and feel like I need it.

"But will it blend?" 😁

@guilhermevalentim95

Жыл бұрын

that is the question!

Haha, this is pretty funny! I've never seen one before, and it does seem pretty pointless. Happy New Year!

Clint, the crazier, the better!!! Yes! Keep this stuff up...

I miss my local CompUSA. Also Computer Warehouse. They were wonderous as a kid to me. Almost like Christmas just to visit them.

This is just awesome. The Comp USA branding is like icing on the cake!

Happy early birthday Clint!

Happy birthday dude.

Happy birthday Clint!

Happy Birthmas Clint!

I've never seen one of them before, but now I MUST HAVE ONE!

I would, so much, buy this back in the day.

Good use for this is to make it a games shuffle deck for a day long marathon of gaming. Whatever comes out, is played!

Happy birthday mate, mine was on the 20th.

@LGRBlerbs

Жыл бұрын

Mine as well, happy shared birthday!

Having one of these would have been an epic flex in the early days of CD burners.

There was a time I would have to burn discs like mad from morning to night a couple times a week. This would have been incredibly nice to have back then.

Dude... best relic of the 2000s ever

Clint, what we really need is a Christmas sandwich over on LGR Food.

I have one. I found it on the cheap at a local thrift (sadly, not around anymore) years ago, and since I keep blanks on a shelf out in the hall, I can keep some of them in this thing and not have to walk out and get them. Of course, I rarely use them anymore but when I DO....:)

_Pinhead from Hellraiser:_ "One small modification to this exquisite device's ejection mechanism, and your suffering will be legendary - even at 2x!"

I agree, very oddly appealing. Happy holidays everyone! 🤘

Happy birthday LGR!

It reminds me of an old toy commercial: "Penny for a gum ball, Popeye" "THANKS FOR THE GUM BALL!"

I had something similar in the early 1990s, but for 3.5 Inch diskettes. And all my new ones were in there. It was in the Amiga era, the good old days 🙂

If you still burn CDs or DVDs from time to time you should be on the lookout for a cheap old Primera Disc Publisher or similar duplicator, I picked a working one up for $100 and it's so incredibly satisfying to watch a robot arm pick up a blank disc from a spindle, feed it into the recorder, then move it to a labeling inkjet after the disc is recorded and spitting the finished, printed disc out the front. Best part is that it all works through Remote Desktop so I can control my little bootleg factory from another room entirely!

Happy birthday Clint! Be safe yeeyee

At first I was like "who would need something like that?" Then I saw how the mechanism actually works and now I am like "why don't I have something like that?"

Haha.. when you said " why am I coming this?.. I said the say thing just before only to find I love it and I hate that I do!!.. I think I'll be seeing if can find one in the UK.. 🤣🤣

A great product to scratch and put fingerprints on a brand new blank media just before burning somthing on it! Brilliant.

I could see children and large pet birds having too much fun with that button.

This is so awesome and something I never would have bought even if I saw it, which I didn't. My OCD wouldn't have allowed it. I even threw away discs that seemed to have dust on them and thumbing it before burning is out of the question 😊