Rewind King

[Guest guest]

Trina,

This is a huge issue for my son also. We solved it with

plexiglass....my husband rigged up a door that we put on the

entertainment center that " locks " up the VCR and Tanner's DVD

player. We have a lock on the door and it can't be opened without a

key. That means you have to change the movie when necessary, but

there is no stimming on movies and we don't have to buy a new VCR

every 4 months or worry about the DVD player getting broken! It

took a while (a couple of hours) for my husband to design the whole

thing.

I can take a picture and email it if you'd like.

Beth

Mom to Tanner

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> Does anyone have any idea how I can either disable the VCR tapes

or the VCR

> itself so that it cannot be rewound? Unless I use a remote. I was

thinking

> of a TV/VCR combo with no buttons on the front (cannot find one) or

> something I can do to the tapes that prevent them from being

rewound? This

> has become a major stim and it's time to phase this kind of

inappropriate

> behavior out! Thanks for the help. Trina

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[Guest guest]

We purchased online a metal box with a cover that has a plexiglass window

and lock. I don't recall the website now, but the box is designed for use

in convenience stores, etc., I think, to protect the videotapes on camera

surveillance, so it was probably a security or media site. (I think it came

from Atlanta.) It wasn't cheap - in the $200 range. It solved our problems

for quite a while until the advent of DVD players on the boys' computers.

Now I have the DVDs locked in a cupboard, but that doesn't always stop them

from rewinding if they obtain a DVD to watch on the computer.

LHS