Even more so because I believe Sanyo made mini component systems and boomboxes which had built-in audio CD players. Oh my.

"Where can i play this whiney voice autotuned modern music" Me: i think this is the cd player over here "brah".

I can predict what will happen next then (or pretty much everyone tbh)

@@surrodox How would I not predict what happens next?

"hmm i wonder why this cd player has no speakers or line outputs? and why it says 'cd destroyer' on it? ehh let's put a cd in, what could go wrong?"

Another job lost to automation.

NOOO I DONT WANT TO BECOME A CD DESTROYER AAAAAAAAAAAA *gets turned into cd destroyer*

they took my job 😔

Younger siblings are now obsolete

My little brother always loved destroying old CDs. I’d give him a few failed burns and he’d do what ever with them (microwaving them had some really cool results )

9 months really aint free

my brother broke a DVD that goes for hundreds or thousands online :(

@@partitionhlep Is it the Popee the Maniax dvd?

@Corat Yeah me too, soon as i got a Fat model, my discs stopped getting destroyed

Or a Xbox 360

@Corat Wait, which models ? I just bought a PS2 Slim...

I never had my CDs destroyed by my PS2 slim. Is it only on specific models of the slim?

Xbox 360: "Not on my watch!"

RIP in peace

Rolfcopter soisoisoisoisoi

I started laughing when I saw the Visa CD.

@@JonatasAdoM looks like Anthony took his hatred towards Windows Vista on a whole new level.

@@HBC101TVStudios - TRULY _inspiring_ !!

Those are scary

@@serraramayfield9230i have a friend who thinks wolverine sized nails are a fantastic idea and every time she uses a shredder I get PTSD. Now learning hard drive shredders exist I'm getting even more worried 😂

I've worked with and on those machines, genuinely fun i tell you

Well I got handed a drill and a big box of old drives by the IT guy once and was just told to "have fun"

My childhood before internet.

four SOI

Natural Microsoft Sam's voice, actually.

Obviously for copyright reasons. Also used a speech from the 19th century to make sure it's public domain.

My roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi rofl rofl rofl rofl

Sylvester Stallone is... Judge Shredd. "I AM..... THE CLAW!!"

someone should edit those aliens from toystory in lmao

or Jimmy Carrey`s character in Liar, liar

Claw & Order: Shredding Video Unit

Ya, though most used actual shredders.

This was just for fast deleting of evidence :D

It's not up to department of defense standards for destroying media though.

@@fruitezxd Problem is so long as some of the bits survive the process them some of the evidence might still be recoverable by law enforcement. You'd be surprised what they can recover.

Larry! Just been watching you on GamesWorld, you've always been a showman!

I had a CD I wanted to destroy but my shredder didn't have enough power, so I used a screwdriver to scratch it up, then snapped it in half several times.

@@Bobby-cm7vu and disposed of the fragments separately?

@@Bobby-cm7vu Years ago I got one of those tiny but REALLY heavy shredders, designed for cross shredding CD / DVD discs. Floppy Disks and credit cards. I put hundreds through it in recent years.

@@HazewinDog yes

I'd put my old CDs through the microwave... [/sarcasm] jokes aside, I'd sanded the upper surface with sandpaper and kept doing so until the thing was unreadable. There's one time I magaged to get the whole layer off (that was on a old modified Windows XP CD-R I burned ages ago...) made a pretty transparent coaster LOL

It need to be CD rated however, else you will damage it.

@@thephantom1492 Yes... I know...

Or you can just use an Xbox 360

or a foam backed 80-Grit sanding block from the hardware store , $3 and 15 seconds of applied elbow grease 👍😀👍 !

LOL i know, right? It's just as funny as calling "Buzzfeed" news :D

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 g

More like Vinyl Eyezz 🤣🤣🤣

There... are actual experts who happen to use reddit. Chill.

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 "BuzzFeed News" is actually a separate entity from "BuzzFeed" itself, and "BuzzFeed News" actually had won several journalism award, and several times became Pulitzer Prize finalists, thanks to its investigative journalism.

Heh, glad you had a use for them! I do remember being bummed when AOL switched from floppies to CDs. No more free blank disks...

You brought back a long forgotten memory there, AOL CD ROMS!

@@AaronOfMpls for the same reason i miss VHS promo tapes from Nintendo back in 1997 and 1998 around christmas. My best buddy and I took a few and used them as tapes to record our self-recorded shortfilm projects. It was suuuuch a big help because we had no money for blank VHS tapes.

damn they used to push those under our doors in the early 2000s still, I remember seeing some AOL 2.0 to who knows, 5.0? They would push another version CD all the time there.

@@Kalvinjj More like 9.0, and yah, they did keep going for a while. (No sale from my family though. We went from Prodigy to a local dial-up ISP to broadband from our cable co.)

Nice, I just put them in the toaster

video plz

that is how we did it in the military for sensitive material, even had a microwave just for CD's

You could try one of those abrasive CD repair machines that normally polishes the other side but instead you could use it label side to quickly sand away that top layer, label and foil (data).

Microwaves will instantly destroy CDs and DVDs, and even flash media!

@@Shaker626 I think OSHA would probably kill me if I asked my employees to microwave plastic on the regular.

@@timmy530 That is true though, can't have someone microwaving their lunch in there right after. Imagine the OSHA inspector seeing that!

Maybe the company should invest in rewritables and label the box they're in.

without a word, that' the part that got me

Satisfying.

Then cuts disc in half with scissors. Sry had to be certain it was officially done!

Reminds me a friend of mine that had a PS1 game CD, pirate at that of course, that looked like a freaking moon surface shot, if you held it against a light it looked like a starry sky. I have no clue how the PS1 still ran that crap.

@@Kalvinjj PS1 had pretty amazing error correction.

Usually that stuff got stored as bare CDs, no cases, just stacked up on top of each other, treated like dirty socks or something. This is why some people have only bad experiences with things that they buy.

@@Kalvinjj Maybe that is part of the reason why some people, more than other peoples laser quit working too, since it worked overtime reading through those discs.. @Jared Maddox Yeah, that`s absolutely not how to store a disc, I do not understand why people do not care about their stuff at all. I have seen discs soo scratched that I do not understand how it is possible, unless it happened on purpose. And this goes to not just CDs, but cars, apartments, and everything in-between. Some people just destroy stuff, they are like living CLAWS.

What are these flattening devices you speak of?

yup, quickest way to destroy the reflective coating and melting the pits and lands.

2 second full blast microwave

I used to work at Mc Donalds back in 2008. I was a frycook and occasionally they'd have me flipping the burger meats. One day a coworker had a large stack of CDs/DVDs he needed to destroy and he asked around about it. I told him 5 seconds in the mircrowave was the fastest way to do it since they have a metal reflective coading that the microwave will easily destroy. So that's what he did. put the whole stack in the microwave. ... The one we use for things line cinnabuns and hotcakes... Looking back it was probably not the best idea to do that in the same microwave used to cook food. Should have put them in a sealed container first. :P Well it did get the job done at least. I don't recall exactly how long he put them in for. I hope it wasn't more then 6 or so seconds. Especially since it's one of those large windowless industrial microwaves so probably cooked things way faster then the ones you typically have in your house kitchen. Could probably destroy CDs in less then a couple seconds in there. Any longer and would probably start melting the plastic. :P

@@MagnumForce51 Is that not the most suspicious thing on Earth? "Hey man, I *need* to destroy this stack of CD's."

@@MagnumForce51 I believe it can also destroy the microwave if you are not careful. Lucky to not break the microwave, those industrial ones can be really expensive

Wonder why they never used this as a feature to a console

@@Revengilate too expensive and likely to break

@@St_Rizla ah

@@Revengilate it'd be cool, but consoles need to be able to withstand households that may own them... as a former menace to society myself, can already picture multiple ways kids would fiddle with and demolish it LOL

@@sonozaki0000 Lol haha

He already mentioned that in this video

@@JackMcSomeone I K N O W

@@JackMcSomeone TIL means "today I learned" you spedass headass

What are the chances someone learns something new on the same day they watched a video that mentioned that thing they didn't know? All kidding aside I wanted to add there's huge industrial shredders that work on the same concept as paper shredders.

I’ve never shredded a CD but I have shredded a few credit cards through mine

Now THAT would be one EXCELLENT Vid !!

@@chuckintexas ditto needs to be done for sure

is it beware the savage claw?

A stranger. From the outside. Oooooohhhhhhhh!

I had one, and it was so fucking cool. Hahah.

@@Red_Eyedwhere did you get it

@@rocky_1904 Target. Early 2000s. Hahah.

Hahaha. :') But, made by Antifa!

​@@dennisneo1608what

You have obviously never watched any of Techmoan's videos.

Good ole Anthony Cumia during his heyday

My friend kept lettin the same Disc Run, so i threw it in the claw and, the Claw won!

The Clash. In the 1970s they were already in the right direction.

@@leonzantvoort6201 that actually wasn't a Clash song if I remember correctly, but their cover was the most awesome version

Oh my god! That would've been funny if that was used in the video. xD

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh..."

You menace

It was CD-R or pressd cd ?

@@Baoslaw Doesn't matter. The metal layer get destroyed.

I used to do that with broken CDs. It made lots of “lightning”!

You should go out and buy your sister those CDs that you messed up back then lol.

Yes indeed, it should be labelled "Disc scratcher"

Those disk repair machines didn’t work on decent CDs, let alone shredded ones like this. Lol

@@PickupsAreNotTrucks As someone who has actually operated such a machine hundreds of times, I can say that they most definitely do work, to an extent.

Why when the DVD-RAM is a multi recording device. 🤣

@@RJDA.Dakota have you seen one? They're pre-sectored, so they're all covered in dots in a pattern. In fact, I now wonder if Matsushita or whoever else used "The Claw" to make them in the first place.

@@igorszamaszow171 I still have a couple of them. They came with my Panasonic DVD Recorder. They are very unique in their own way. I don’t think that they are manufactured anymore.

@@RJDA.Dakota yes, I think they stopped production a couple of years ago. My family owned a DVD recorder as well in the early 2000s, and we used them for timeshifting on a pretty much daily basis. I think we had three DVD RAMs, maybe four, one came bundled with our recorder as well. They were never all that widespread even back in the day: I didn't know anyone else personally who used one of those. I always thought that cartridge was a neat idea.

@@igorszamaszow171 We had them for the HMCs (Hardware Management Console) that controlled our IBM pSeries systems. Of course, being a development group, we usually didn't keep a configuration active long enough to use one.

Not really. Hard drives can be overwritten during a data wipe, completely destroying all data (not just the table of contents, which is what happens when you usually delete a file). SSDs are likely the same way, so are flash drives. It's really only the non rewritable mediums like CDs that need to be destroyed.

​@@richardmillhousenixon This is far quicker to just destroy it though, and while it's good enough for home use some information can still remain on the disk due to bad sectors and such.

@@Yemto It really can't, not on modern drives. This was potentially true on the really old drives that could only store a couple kilobytes or so, because the data was spread out enough that overwriting a sector may still leave ghost images "between the lines" so to speak. With modern drives being as data-dense as they are, recovering data after even one single overwrite is nigh on impossible, simply due to the fact that you can't recover data from the negative space when there is no negative space. One overwrite is enough, two if you're extremely paranoid. This is straight from Peter Gutmann himself, the very person who initially put forward the theoretical attack to recover data from a once-overwritten drive back in 1996.

@@volundrfrey896 I deleted my last comment because I forgot we were talking about hard drives. The problem of a bad sector holding on to data is really only true for a solid state drive, where the drive itself will "block off" that sector to prevent corruption. Any good disk utility will ignore the presence of bad sectors on a hard disk. That is to say they will still write over them as if they aren't there.

Nope, zero fill a disk and data is gone forever.

I forgot I ever commented that or watched this video. It just popped back up on my feed and I came to the comments to type the same thing I wrote 2 years ago.

YIKES !!

Probably aimed at IT departments that needed to destroy backup discs? Although you'd think any company producing that volume of data on a regular basis would be using tapes.

You could hurt yourself trying to destroy a cd. Once I broke a dvd with my hands and it cut my finger pretty deep.

@@n3gi_ Only if you're using your hands. Use a screwdriver, or a pair of scissors. That's the point. You don't need a fancy device to destroy a CD. This device is only useful if you're destroying a LOT of disks in a short amount of time, and doing it often.

I think it’s only useful if you’re planning on destroying a LOT of disks in a relatively short amount of time.

i have roughly 40000 discs that i have to destroy or im going to jail

Beats the neighbors I had who would never use DVD cases for their PS2 games... All scratched up, stored bare on fireplace tiles.... I was amazed at how their PS2 was able to read the discs!

@@Poodleinacan Their PS2 could probably read hieroglyphics.

​@@Ckoz2829The PS2 could probably read cave paintings to be fair, that thing was insane in how well it could read damaged disks. Meanwhile you get the OG Xbox that would spit a disk out if you even looked at it wrong

_B r u t a l i t y ._

nice try NSA. Redundancy check and checksum of various files can bring back data. a square centimetre contains about 2Mb of data that will be retrieved. just burn your data discs.

You sound like the type of man who knows a thing or two about luxury CD players.... I like that.

True, but still looks so freaking awesome. 80s to early 2000s definitely had the coolest gear.

I recently bought a Sanyo 8 Track Deck on ebay. This thing was made well. Sayno RD-8020A - check at the pictures on Google. Sounds great for an 8 track player.

I bought a sanyo 24 inch crt tv in 2005, it broke in 3 years. What a pos.

@@bookshelffury That could have happened with any One unit of any one brand.

I definitely wasn't expecting to see Anthony Groomia's face in this video

The same here- I always thought it was the shiny side that shouldn't be scratched. People used to write on painted side.

The first thing I saw from Anthony Cumia before being introduced to the Opie and Anthony show later on.

I wish Windows 10 had those beautiful aesthetics though. Instead of aero theme, it's gray and grainy theme.

But CDs are digital.

.. and then stand back and watch _HILARITY ENSUE_ 👍🤪😝🤪👍!!

@@fadate7292 This is what happens when I write these on my phone.🙂 Sadly my kid is an English teacher. 🙄

You'd probably need some filler in addition to polishing, otherwise you'd need to remove practically all the material. But besides that, I was thinking the same thing. It really depends on how deep the scratches are. But I suppose if the data section actually gets penetrated the impacted area will be small, possibly enough for the ECC to handle.

I feel certain that the FBI and the CIA has a way to retrieve a CLAWed disc.

^ Yeah. The disc substrate has to be at least a certain thickness for the laser to focus properly, so you would probably need to fill as well as polish. I've never actually heard of filling a plastic disc, at least to a high enough degree that it is still optically transparent. Is that a thing?

@@nickwallette6201 I think Vaseline or Petroleum Jelly could make it readable once at least

Don't you mean curse?

Much smart.

@@bryanstevens5901 i think there might be machines that can do partial data retrivals or something, at least with that you know damn well nowhere for them to extract from and it only takes seconds

Keys and the like (and even cutting a CD in two) created these tiny flakes of the writable layer of material that got into everything. (DVD's were better about it, but still created a mess.) If you were going to destroy hundreds of discs, a machine likes this was the way to go.

Someone knows what's ups

Fire will do the trick

The NSA or CIA could easily ready the intact data layer on these discs. Do not trust this machine to "destroy" your discs.

That’s why you put it back in about 5 more times.

Thing is, this unit actually physically damages both the laser viewing layer (bottom) and the data layer (top) including the reflective material. It doesn't scratch the CD as much as it actually makes impressions into the plastic from both sides using the sharp gear teeth. This renders any sort of polishing useless as that does not fix the data layer that was also damaged. Not to mention distorting the plastic shape of the disc. (as was demonstrated) As long as the tension of the gearing and the sharpness of the gears the disc was put through remained constant, this thing would ruin your disk permanently every time. Obviously running the disk multiple times through it makes it even more certain. Anytime I wanted to destroy a CD, it was always the label side that I would damage, often a few hard gouging scratches across the reflective layer is all it takes. Make a big X then follow that up with a # with the hole of the CD in the center of it. Cheap CDs the reflective coating would flake off even when doing it.

@@DTMAce I would think that with a few buffs, a DVD would be entirely readable. Where a CD has that top layer which is easily damaged, a DVD's info is sandwiched between 2 plastic layers. If the disc was warped like it was in the video after a few shreds then it might be unreadable, but just the scratches can be buffed.

@@samd7293 I don't think you get what I mean. These have "teeth". The marks you see aren't scratches. They are impressions INTO the plastic. And yes, into the data layer. This unit was built to destroy these types of discs. I'm not even sure DVDs were around yet when this came out, but depending on the type of DVD you can bet they would be destroyed as well. (dual-sided and dual-layer MIGHT have a more resistant data layer) And it would take a hell of a lot of material removal to polish out teeth dents. Again, this is all entirely dependent on the tension of the wheels and the sharpness of their edges as to how much actual damage they could do. The reason the disc warps after going through these is because the plastic gets deformed by the dents from the teeth. The more times you stick it through, the more the disc is deformed and the more it warps out of shape as its literally being stretched out like being rolled with a rolling pin. But with teeth.

No kidding! Have you seen how Dream’s been (perhaps rightfully) treated lately? KZfaq has more credibility than Hollywood!

BigD Wizzzzzz

@@TechGorilla1987 what's up Tech G?

@@wal Nada, man. Fancy meeting you over here. Hows the McIntosh coming along?

Clout ✅

✔️☑️👌

Sounds like a nice way to wind up a work day ! Wait for the mail, cross your fingers and on THOSE _SPECIAL_ DAYS you get a treat in the mail, its off to the MICROWAVE !! Fun for _ALL_ !!