That's how these Cartrivision systems worked. Rented tapes could not be rewound in the players, just stopped. Only special machines could rewind them. The casse

That's how these Cartrivision systems worked. Rented tapes could not be rewound in the players, just stopped. Only special machines could rewind them. The cassettes designed for home recording could be rewound in the players though. I'm not aware of any other video cassette tape system that had this.