ITT: post DOA technology

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>>59463422
This

>>59463422
thunderbolt?

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It was looking pretty good for smart watches but it turned out the only people that bought them were the people who buy every piece of shit that comes out, so that was it.

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AMD shouldn't exist.

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dumb sony

>>59463608
it was great, but normies don't care about quality

>>59463555
Yes, since theyre ditching it for USB-C

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>>59463243

>>59463608
it was very good like 1999-2005

>>59463555
>>59463639
it's lighting brickheads

>>59463243
The UMD was great though. It was always neat as fuck to have a handheld with an optical drive
>tfw they never implemented the sliding cover detailed in the UMD spec

>>59463670
came out in 2004 (3 years after the iPod)
Sony would still own the portable audio market if it wasn't for proprietary bullshit like ATRAC, SonicStage and MagicGate

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Mini Disc was a successful format compared to its rival DCC.

>>59463717
oops i didn't read/check image properly. i meant regular MD of course.

CD-burners became standard stuff during that period. So did MP3 playback from data discs.

PMP's started becoming affordable too. Though CDs had much cheaper $/MB ratio for a long time.

>>59463608
>>59463800

mini disc was fine, Hi-MD was DOA

>>59463608
MD was popular as hell in Japan.

>>59463566
Why the fuck did they refuse to make them look like normal watches?
I think only Motorola and Samsung made ones that didn't look like those shitty toy watches everyone had as kids.

>>59463920
Come on, FireWire saw very extensive use.

>>59463800
IIRC DCC was popular as fuck in parts of Europe. Lasted a hell of a lot longer there than here in the States.

>>59464041
>popular as fuck
hell nah

>>59463800
>>59463670
>>59463608
>>59463717
>Lol I watched the latest techmoan video im such a tech nerd xD im going to buy a trillion minidiscs and rise the price because fuck the people who actually collect and use the format.

>>59463978
as always propietary is what killed it.

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My (fathers) Rotel cd-player plays HDCD. They can be played like normal cds probably, but do even hifi fanatics buy those?

I used to live in china, my pirated discs of pink floyd are hdcd, the little light lights up on the player.

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>>59463597

Neither should you

>>59464157
>projecting

>>59464271
>No mention of MiniDisc on /g/ in months, and the few times it was mentioned it was just for shitting on it
>The databits ripoff posts a video about MiniDisc
>Suddenly MiniDisc gets mentioned and praised by some faggots

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Zip750. Dead on arrival.


I still have both a Zip100 and Zip250 in a couple of my machines, and I do have a soft spot for Zip disks, but by the time the 750 came out CDRW was more than good enough.

>>59464647
Didn't the drive eat disks?

>>59464647
leave zip disk in drawer for more than a couple week, data gone

I used zip disks a lot when they were new, just weren't reliable for anything remotely long term

>>59464351
MiniDisc was excellent--its introduction predated widespread knowledge of mp3 and the compression method was less offensive to the ear at lower bitrates. 128kbps MP3s are unlistenable but ATRAC wasn't awful.

The real trick to MiniDisc was the editing. You could, from the front panel controls, split tracks, delete them, name them, reorder them on the disc, merge them...it was a digital mixtape that required no external software--if you could operate a tape deck you could use a MD Deck.

That's what was so cool about MiniDisc, there just weren't enough people that NEEDED that capability--plus Sony has always been Sony and price gouged the fuck out of it.

>>59464729
I've got a 17 year old USB-powered Zip100 drive that still works, and ~20 year old zip discs with zero bad sectors.

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Definitely this.

Not sure about the tablet, though.

>>59463243

Did you screencap that from Techmoan's latest video on MiniDisc?

If so, mah nigga!

>>59463481

What are you saying is DOA? Passwords, Mac computers, or the touch bar?

Maybe the UMD movies were, but PSP was the most successful non-Nintendo handheld game console. The games were on UMD. So the technology was hardly DOA.

>>59464932

The touchbar auto suggesting your password in plain text.

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MD was pretty great for budget home recording of music, btw. Far better than cassette tapes but the (4 or) 8 track recorders were pretty reasonably obtainable.

>>59463683
Doesn't count if it was a scam never meant to take off in the first place.

>>59463291
HDDVD only died because it was cracked first.

It was head to head with Bluray for a while.

>>59464268
it really pisses me off that the colours of the letters aren't the same as the colours of the fingers.

>>59463608
Minidisc was awesome as fuck, but it was a luxury and killed five years later by cheap mp3 players.

>>59465029
>What is native PS3 support

>>59465029
That and Microsoft required an add-on for the 360 but BluRay was native on PS3

>>59464778
I thought the media started to actually fail at this point. How do you store them? What do you use them for?

>>59465025
what do you mean

>>59465029
>HDDVD only died because it was cracked first
Or maybe because it was inferior tech and the people pushing blu-ray had a better game plan?

>>59465029
>head to head
HDDVD was garbage. The players cost around the same as blueray players. Bluerays had more storage and more features. The Xbox360-CD (just like the Sega CD it was dependent on owning the Sega) attachment was stupid from inception.

The reason I bought a ps3 was it supported 1080p screens and was backwards compatible with ps2 game dvd's. Also the quality of ps3 games were amazing for 2006 standards. The original 360 didn't even support full hd while the ps3 out the box had so many features.

The ps3 was underated even with it's $500 price. Unfortunately my ps3 died from overheating 2 years later. I since moved to the pc 1440p master race.

>>59463643
cia pls go

>>59464916
>Did you screencap that from Techmoan's latest video on MiniDisc?
I did

>>59465212
DELET

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>>59465203
awwww good times. I still remember quick scoping noobs in cod4 and eating hot wings on the weekends. Tbh I sorta wish I got a 360 elite to play gears and halo with friends in highschool.

>>59463920
Firewire is still standart in most recording studios. Profesional 12+ channel audio interfaces still use it

>>59464728

the first zip drives to come off the line had an issue called the "click of death". Iomega corrected the issue after widespread reports of it.

>>59464729

A few of my Zip100's were bought back in '98. They're still working just fine. My zip250's were bought around 2002-2003 and I haven't bought any more since then. Again, they're all working fine.

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>>59465212
>go out to get one yesterday because I feel like blowing my money on something
>sold out fucking everywhere
>can only obtain from jew scalpers on the internet
fucking nintendo

>>59465402
>I feel like blowing my money on something
whore

>>59464758
>its introduction predated widespread knowledge of mp3


you do know MiniDisc predates mp3 all together, right?

>>59465313
you're that autistic fuck who keeps spamming that ugly bitch on /pol/?

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>>59463243

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>>59465430
Mmmmmmmmmmaybe...not

>>59465445
You take that back, fucker

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>>59463243

>>59465411
I lost my doggo that morning so I guess I was intending to do something to get my mind off it. I never splurge.

>>59464647
There still being used in many old top-tier hardware samplers, the day Roland/Korg/Yamaha/akai release a good hw sampler then it might become obsolete, but I dont see that happening anytime soon

>>59465022
Damm, I had one of these, was the shit until the md drive died and was unfixable. Sold it years ago but still keep my old tascam 414 bcs chrome tapes are still easy to find

>>59463679
>noisy as fuck
>obscenely long loading times
>devoured your battery
>great
Once I installed CFW on my PSP and could run games from the memory stick I never touched a UMD again except to rip the ISOs off the games I owned in physical format so I could install them on the memory stick

>>59465480
Shit son, :(

>>59465212
Literally one of the fastest selling console ever in my country.

>>59465445
The fuck? Its good faggot. Go back sucking nintendo's dick

>>59465445
Best handheld to date

>>59465504
I never said it was 100% perfection

>>59465655
These were super popular in Asia, they loved these for ages.

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>>59465655

>>59465727
Yes, but it was DOA in USA and Europe.

>>59465698
>I never said it was 100% perfection
Exactly, it was 100% shit

Fuck Sony and their obsession with pushing proprietary bullshit that never goes anywhere

>>59465751
>namefag
>tripfag
>passfag
how have you not killed yourself yet? lmao

>>59465472
Underrated post

>>59465472
>DOA
>slave camp for free labor
workers don't get much done if you kill them. jews dies of starvation and illnesses because the allies bombed the supply routes to stop german weapons and ammo production

>>59463671
>POSReady
Did they really not think through what most people would hear when they read 'POS'

>>59465011
That was the software's fault for not using a proper password input field

>>59465922
But they weren't dead on arrival.

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DOA?

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>>59466071

>>59463243
>>59463608
There's just something inherently aesthetic in small discs in clear plastic cases

>>59465022

I used to sell those back in the 90's. I LOVED the Yamaha MD4 and MD8 as well as Tascam's 4 track joint. Always wanted one for myself but I got a SWEEEEET deal on a Tascam 688 8 track cassette studio w/sync box and went with that instead.

>>59465655

I worked at Best Buy back in '94. We were still selling LD players back then and they were still popular as shit with "upscale" customers.

>>59465485

None of the recent samplers by Akai have a zip drive in them, they're all CF or SD card now. I don't think Roland makes a hardware sampler like they used to (the s760 is the last dedicated sampler they made and the MV series were their MPC competitors) and the last few I saw didn't have Zip drives. Emu and Akai did inclue them in their samplers around the turn of the century but it's been well over a decade since any of them left the factory.

As an aside, I did have pic related briefly and used it with a SCSI Zip100 as an idea scratchpad of sorts. I really liked it, but I wanted the internal hard drive kit and it was retardedly expensive back then (2001). I ended up trading in and added a couple of bucks and got an Alesis NanoSynth.

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>>59466370

dammit... might help if I included "pic related"

>>59465883
Nah

>>59466323
Explain. Were there laptops that had those shitty stickers with Debian?

>>59465972
To be fair, Point of Sales machines have been in use since....shit when did cash machines come out? The fucking 1800s?

>>59466451
I mean, okay, I get that there's something cool about optical media, but in the PSP it was more a nuisance than a good feature

>>59465972
People who POSReady 2009 have POS systems and know what a POS is. It's not that difficult of a concept to wrap your mind around.

>>59466609
Nah, the PSP would be much worse if it didn't have UMDs.

>>59466622
>Nah, the PSP would be much worse if it didn't have UMDs.
How so?

>>59466622
>Nah, the PSP would be much worse if it didn't have UMDs.
you could not have been more wrong even if you tried to

>>59466370
that's the thing, there are no good recent samplers, the new Akais are an insult, as a matter of fact, I'll take an old S3000 over a MPX16 any day.
Roland/Boss used more obsolete tecnologies, my SP-303 uses smartmedia, but it kicks major ass, the SP-808 used zip drives and other used CF cards that are harder to find
The only decent hardware sampler that uses SD media is the SP-404sx right now. The new Electribes are a joke, and the MPC live will use an internal HD (if it ever comes out).
The Octatrack is a decent current sampler but overpriced af and the workflow is hell.
DAWs killed the hardware sampler market a decade ago, hopefully they might come back

>>59466622
>PSP would be much worse if it didn't have UMDs.
Yeah it would run quieter, cooler, load games faster and have more battery life. Truly a terrible thing.

>>59465895
I respond to that question almost every day. You can look up the answers in the archives, I'm tired of answering.

>>59466629
>>59466637
>>59466707
Games would've been more expensive, guaranteed. And it's not like the drive's existence is detrimental to battery life, it's the drive's use, which you're free to avoid.

>>59466637
>>59466629
PSP is a tech from 2005. What else can you propose? Digital downloads? Most people had either ADSL or limited broadband, no 3G, EDGE is a peak of technology. SD cards? Too expensive, even today Switch devs complain they have to raise the price due to the cost. UMD had 1,8 GB (in 2005!), it was just the thing for PSP.

>>59466721
PS Vita has games on flash cards and they're not more expensive.

>>59466752
Vita came out almost a decade later, flash's had time to rise in capacity and drop in price. Still even today it would have been cheaper to manufacture games on optical discs than flash.

>>59465203
I have a launch 360 and it does do 1080p.

It doesnt have an hdmi port but a very early update allowed component cables to go to 1080p, you can also use a vga cable.

That being said the launch ps3 is a great piece of hardware and I'm happy mine still works.

>>59466772
Hmm, point taken.

>>59463679
>>tfw they never implemented the sliding cover detailed in the UMD spec
What? I have distinct memories of slides on at least some of my UMDs. I also remember them falling off and being a general pain.

>>59465480
Rip pupperino

>>59466841
No you don't, the PSP doesn't have the mechanism to open the slide.

>>59466721
>it's the drive's use, which you're free to avoid.
So you buy a device meant for playing videogames and don't play videogames on it?

>>59466877
You don't need the drive to play games, dumbass. Rip them to the Memory Stick.

>>59465628
Funny, almost nobody heard about it in my country and those who have haven't bought it. PlayStation is the only console used here.

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Dot-com decadence coming through

>>59466977
wtf is that

>>59466982
barcode scanner iirc

Still own two zip 100 drives, one's external usb, other is internal. Both still work. Still got a few zip 100 discs for them. I keep the external drive handy cause I'll never know when I'll need it. Bout 5 yrs ago a client wanted me to transfer bout 20 disc worth of pics to cd (he didn't have the source drive anymore). Afterwards he said I could keep the discs. Two yrs later, gf at the time accidentally threw all the discs away. Man, i was pissed.

>>59464837
It's the only decent Android tablet anymore.

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>>59467050
I generally love formats that involve a floppy disc like case around the actual media, MiniDisc, UMD, old style CD caddies like pic related.

Cartridges and more hard cased media feel so nice to use. Putting them in, ejecting them. Its almost lewd how much I love it.

>>59466982
>>59466994
The idea was there would be special barcodes on certain newspapers, magazines, ads, or products that would take you to relevant websites if you scanned them. They gave tons of these things out for free and nobody really used them as intended.

There's an interview with the co-founder/CEO floating around somewhere. He's quite a character.

>>59467100
Sounds like what QR codes are used for now.

>>59467125
>what QR codes are used for now.
even QR is shit, because Operating Systems don't have NATIVE support for them.

>buy $900000 android phone
>have to search the app store for some shitty free app to fucking use it
>no easy access built in the fucking browser or OS

FUCKING CANCER

>>59467154
Yeah, that surprised me when I got an Android phone.

>>59467154
>>59467181
BB10OS has a built in UPC/QR/NFC tag app

>>59463608
>>59463243
Did you just watch TechMoan?

>>59467213
>BB10OS has a built in UPC/QR/NFC tag app
so? QR codes are not gonna be used like they're supposed to if all major OS' and devices don't support them natively.

BB is a dead meme now

>>59464702
I remember when 3D was being put in quite a few TV's
Glad it died out

>>59465122
Nitrogen filled, humidity controlled darkbox

>>59464717
funny, the N64 had over ~32 million units and ~225 million cartridges sold

even though you are a sony fanboy, you shouldn't deny that nintendo has had some very successful systems

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You now remember Ouya was supposed to replace traditional consoles.

>>59465035
see>>59464268

>>59467234
Jesus! I had a fucking Zune at one point! I totally forgot. It was pretty awesome if I remember correctly.

>>59467237
So it's an OS that supports them natively, exactly what you were fucking talking about. Dumbass.
>BB is a dead meme now
Never was a meme, just another god tier company joining Sun and friends for their untimely deaths

>>59467278
>android
it was dead before it arrived.

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>>59466977
I still have mine! I think I have two!

How do I block trigfags?

>>59467287
>So it's an OS that supports them
>an OS
things don't become the norm if only 1 OS supports them natively, and also BB is niche shit, not a mainstream device with a tiny market share.

>>59467278
kek, all of those who backed this shit up are retarded.

>>59467278
didn't it also take like two years for the first orders to be fulfilled after the funds were raised, and then the price in the very few stores that actually carried it was stupid

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>>59467310
I never said BB10OS support was a game changer, I was merely pointing out that there was at least one OS with native support. You are thinking way too hard about this anon, try not to hurt yourself. Literally all I'm saying is that BB10OS supported it.

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>>59467268
>~32 million units

By console standards that's pretty poor, especially considering how many PS1 were sold.

But at least it wasn't a huge flop like the Saturn.

>>59467331
>I was merely pointing out that there was at least one OS with native support
yeah but so what? in the context of my argument that doesn't mean shit

>>59467334
well yes, obviously the N64 sales are dwarfed by the PS1 sales. but it's funny when Sony cocksuckers try to say the N64 was a failure. It wasn't.

>>59467351
I never said it meant anything, it was merely a relevant tidbit.

>>59467374
Well it did sell less then the SNES and the NES

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>>59467125
This is what the barcodes looked like.

Here's that weird interview with the inventor
http://cuecatinventorphilyaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/wiki-patent-updates-cuecat-inventor.html

>>59465480
Sorry about your dog, anon.

>>59467343
BrownPill#f9:Q9%@5

just in case you thought deleting would do something

>>59467435
nani sore

>>59467507
Is she trying to commit suicide?

>>59467534
why wouldn´t you want to commit suicide if you just bought Connect-A-Cord (tm)

>>59467491
kore

>>59467507
How the fuck is it allowed in a first world country to place a regular plug socket right above a bathtub?

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>>59467534
no, he's trying to make a perfect-lenth cord.

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>>59467560
Buy why would I want to pretend to be a stupid tripfag everyone hates?

>>59467586
Good point, you already are one.

>>59467534
>>59467570
hello newfriends

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>>59467609
Hi!

>>59465895

only newfags do this, that tripfag has been on this board longer than you

>>59465313
Who is this

tripfags love attention. even negative attention. rule number 1 is never reply to them or acknowledge them. if the temptation to reply is too powerful, then filter them out.

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>>59467688
Too bad no one knows because everyone blocks tripfags

>>59467268
that statistic is glaringly incorrect
>225 mil cartridges sold
>32 mil units

how can more people buy more game if there are less console to play them?

>>59467688
>he has been autistic for a long time
also I've been here since forever but I don't have autism so I don't namefag/tripfag

>>59467906
The whole point of cartridges is that you can use more than one with one console. Basically what those numbers are saying is that the average N64 owner had 7 games.

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>>59467906
BAKA

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>>59463608
>he didnt have a huge collection of MD to listen to music at shcool

>>59468076
I did.
But Hi-MD was launched the same year as Sony's own 20GB Network Walkman and Apples 60GB iPod Photo.

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>>59468076
Dirty Communist Bird!

>>59463615
>>59463877
>>59465046

Minidisc was awesome. At the time you could pay upwards of $300+ for a 64mb mp3 player, some used sdcard which were tiny and very expensive.

Discmans still skipped, mp3 discmans were rare and skipped along with other issues, discmans had shit battery life for the most part during that time.

Minidiscs had godlike battery life, days on a single aa, (I literally never hit stop, I just left music playing all day) the rechargeable AA lasted at least a day.

Each minidisc could hold about 4 albums compressed (less if you care about quality) minidiscs were like $5 a piece, so you could travel and have a huge music collection and also not worry about scratching discs like CDs.

The main drawback was the fuckin software which was horrible (if you were ripping CDs or not using compression it was irrelevant). The hardware - well my device - had serious issues, went in for repair 5+ times (I think Sony blew over 3k+ on parts / labour especially as time went on and it wasn't being manufacturered anymore, one time the bill was more than the device new - Sony store warranties were fuckin legit back then they really stood by their products and ate the cost when hardware had issues)

It was awesome. iPods came out, mp3 players got to budget prices, and the himd was kinda late and folks had already moved on.

The original md was great I used it until i got a creative Zen.

>>59465360

Nah they are all moving to usb3 these days. Anything new will be usb

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>>59468228
Finally.

>>59468192
I had first-gen MiniDisc hardware. I loved it but never saw a good reason to switch to the newer MD stuff. NetMD I would've gone for if it didn't force some shitty Sony software at a time where cheap mp3 players acting as a mass storage device were already common place.

>>59468319

USB used to have alot of issues for audio/video stuff firewire was the right choice at the time.

>>59463449
here that fresh (you) that you wanted anon

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Am I the only one who thinks the UMDs were cute and aesthetically pleasing?

>>59465203
>nvidia powered console died from overheating
AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH

>>59468394
no you aren't

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>>59468367
I-i need one too! It's one of those days...

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>>59465203
>>59465029
But anons what about HDDVDs faster write speeds?

>>59468394
seemed liked a completely pointless change from the classic MDs
why did Sony introduce a completely incompatible new version of a format that was already dying?

>>59463566
I wouldn't mind smart watches if they fucking did anything for less than 200$. I'm not spending 200$ for a gimped version of my phone I already carry anyway.

>>59467374
Heres your (you) :^)

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>>59466086
fucking louis gg my dude

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>>59468408

>>59468394
>aesthetically pleasing
I miss old Sony. The Sony that actually cared about industrial design.

>>59468565
You just had to buy their shit to keep old Sony alive, Anon.

>>59468593
but their products lasted a lifetime.... I didn't need to buy stuff

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>>59468565
I still get that feeling, all except Playstation. They turned Playstation 4 into a Walmart quality thing, evidently in their hardware design and interface design.

>>59468593
Sony fucked themselves, especially with MiniDiscs

>>59463566
>>59468455
The only smartwatch I thought was any good was the Pebble series

Cheap, week long battery, no touchscreen or gimmicky sim slots
it did what it did well, and had a decent amount of customization with useful apps

then they fucking sold out to fitfuckingbit

touchscreen on a watch IS FUCKING STUPID
if the watch doesn't have an always on screen also, its USELESS

>>59468629
>especially with MiniDiscs
WRONG.

>>59467234
This was a good alternative to ipods at the time iirc

>>59466786
>launch ps3 is a great piece of hardware
Yeah until it dies from heat you-
>I'm happy mine still works
Lucky bastard

>>59468663
>introduce new storage format
>ensure it will never be a real standard by discouraging third-party support and pushing own proprietary formats

UMDs were even bigger bullshit than Memory Sticks

>>59468749
>by discouraging third-party support
wrong. many other manufacturers made minidisc devices.

the only problem was that record labels were sperging out that you could make high quality copies of music, so there weren't many pre-recorded albums.

>UMDs were even bigger bullshit than Memory Sticks
neither of those two are comparable to minidisc in any way

>>59468411
>using optical disks for storage

what year is this, 2002?

>>59468411
What are you talking about? The speeds are literally the same.

>>59468629

> Things underage people from America think

Md was a massive success. HiMD wasn't

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>>59465029
When the fuck is UHD getting cracked

>>59467715
some /r9k/ cumdumpster.

made a bunch of robots fall in love with her and in the end she was a heroin and aids infested slut with a deep love for the BBC.

hearts were broken, reeees were had, and shes currently on rehab afaik.

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>>59468614
hey, i own that, and its bretty gud.

i never used any of the meme formats on it, but as a player its great.

>>59468783
>wrong. many other manufacturers made minidisc devices.
While requiring high licensing fees

>>59468872
>implying I'm American
And I loved MiniDiscs but Sony simply failed to deliver any serious competition to mp3 players and CD/DVD-based non-portables.

>>59468934
>in the end she was a heroin and aids infested slut with a deep love for the BBC.
you mean she claimed to be and all the autistic retards there fell for it

>>59468987
>While requiring high licensing fees
>moving the goalpost
also it could not have been too high since they made so many

>>59463291
>Microsoft supports HDDVD's because they would work natively on PC unlike Blurays
>HDDVD dies
>Bluray drives don't take off on PC
>optical media dies completely for computers

>>59469029
>Bluray drives don't take off on PC

If they weren't insanely expensive compared to DVD drives 15 years after launch maybe someone would use them.

>>59469006
Are you kidding me? You had a few expensive MD devices compared to a staggering mass of cheap cd devices that weren't limited to ATRAC.

>>59466570
>>59466622
I'm talking about the layperson, or someone not working with POS

>>59469063
>a few
http://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html

>>59469081
It's not an OS for laymen, why would Microsoft care what they thought of it?

>>59464717
Think about how badass modern cartridges would be.
Instant load times and as much space as you'll ever need.
Also you can have a secondary processor/gpu if you need it.

>>59468408
RIP Fuxor

>>59469085
>so few you can actually make a list of every single device in existence
It is indeed very little.
Try making such a list for every CD device in existence. Even a relatively unpopular area like VCDs would make for a much much bigger list.

>>59464729
I've got my plenty of disks written to in '97-'98 that read just fine.

>>59469172
>moving the goalpost
they're not a few, and they did well in europe

>>59469109
Calling it POS ready is like saying 'it's not good for anything but cash registers', and anyone not familiar with what POS stands for will think it's a joke

>>59469048
I got lucky and Microcenter had loads on clearance for twenty bucks. Only read capability for Bluray, but RW for DVD. That's fine for me, but it's bizarre they expect people to pay $50 to write to a 50-100GB when flash drives are so cheap.

Why are people so zealously defending Sony's overpriced proprietary tech?

>>59467507
>daisy chaining power cords
>FIFTY TIMES
Yeah because we all have endless time to connect/disconnect those fire hazards

>>59469226
>Calling it POS ready is like saying 'it's not good for anything but cash registers'
It's like saying it's ready for use on cash registers, which is its exact fucking purpose.
>and anyone not familiar with what POS stands for will think it's a joke
Again, why would that matter? Anybody who would be buying this knows what a POS is.

>>59469189
But they are.
And I'm German and I was very much an exception as the owner of an MD Walkman, stereo and car deck,

>>59469316
>muh anecdotal opinion

>>59469413
beats your completely baseless opinion

>>59469432
>completely baseless
I posted source

>>59469452
you didn't
you posted a list that's about as big a list of all betmax devices would be and take it as a sign of success.

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>>59469564
>about as big a list of all betmax devices

>>59467278
What a pathetic and underpowered piece of shit it was. It was already shit by the time it came out and since most people also had to wait horrendous amounts of time on that garbage, it was even more outdated when it arrived.

Also
>enclosed fan

>>59469681
>underpowered
irrelevant when it runs android.

>>59469710
Fucking how?

>>59469722
you can't have a proper game which requirs beefy hardware to run properly on such a shitty OS

>>59468519
wtf have you done to your font rendering

>>59469741
You can have a better game on better hardware though, even if that hardware is running Android. Go be dumb somewhere else.

>>59469758
you'd be doomed to fail.
>too dumb to get it

>>59469587
hard to find a comprehensive list

this one is NTSC only and no related formats
http://www.mrbetamax.com/ModelByFeaturesList.html
but it's already more than every MD player

>>59469313
There are embedded devices that are not cash registers. People developing for them might not know what POS stands for or might assume it's only for POS. It'd be like marketing regular Windows as "Windows 10: LaptopReady edition"

>>59469783
You don't have an argument besides
>android is dum dum
Not even the guy you're responding to btw.

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>>59469851
>There are embedded devices that are not cash registers
Just like how there are operating systems that aren't called POSReady

>>59467555
I kekked audibly

>>59467934
>on /g/
>not having autism
Pic one

>>59468411
the speed is identical, the hd-dvd only takes less time because it stores less data

>>59465313
who is this sweater puppy?

>>59463243
>the white thing is not a protective case that you have to take the disc out of before putting it into its player

Fucking bullshit.

>>59464702
I remember.... lol 3d glasses tv's..

>>59470322
I pick being on /g/

>>59463717
>Sony would still own the portable audio market if it wasn't for.....
A metric fuckton of horrible decisions that they still continue to make

>>59467259
Oh so their essentially useless

>>59469048
Fun fact... $65 of the price of a Blu-Ray drive goes to licensing.

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>>59467154
My Samsung 4G supported it natively, as have every Samsung phone since.

What pleb shit did you use, an IPhone?

>>59467286
>>59468670
The Zune was fucking great, but locked down as fuck by Microsoft. By the time there were ways to get around their drm and ms sync bullshit, iphones and androids were available.

>>59466941
Are you from the land of pole?

>>59463481
This, definitely

>>59463487
Really stupid if someone thinks direct X was a failure....

>>59472798
>it's okay when Sony does it
literally no one claims that ever. which is proven by the fact that they all flopped.

>>59472798
>it's okay when Sony does it
Compared to whom? I've never heard any complaints over fullsize, mini, and microSD cards, which is what I assume you're referencing.
Also, Soy got some shit when the PSP Go came out with the micro Memory Stick or whatever they call it.

>>59464157
Hi-MD, as his image is demonstrating, was DOA though... stop projecting you autistic fuck.

>>59463608
fucking loved these. I wouldn't say they were doa. But leave it to sony to strangle themselves with their own product.

It was nice having a small protected disk that i didn't have to worry too much about. Unlike cd that scratched when you looked at it and the shitty cases broke easily because of their size. I loved being able to throw MDs into my backpack with out a single care.

>>59472991
They were also so simple to record shit on - pretty much like smarter tapes. Recording on CDs was such a hassle in comparison.

>>59473030
Ive been wanting to get back into it for some time now and still have a vista machine that has the software to im/export netmds but looks like i wont be able to now. That yt vid pop up in my suggested viewing and i know its too late now. should of overpaid for a netmd player while i had the chance

>>59469066
You need to be over 18 to browse this board

>tfw downloading movies from Megaupload burn 4-5 on a dvd to watch them on a 32" Sony Trinitron TV
I still have mine and a box full of dvd's with stuff downloaded on those glory days of the intenternet, half of it must be porn

>>59463597
agreed
I wish i3's were $3000

>>59468565
yea, I loved them rootkits in cd drives

>>59473165
Are you thinking of the music CDs with viruses or something else?

>>59473165
wtf does that have to do with industrial design of products?

>>59465628
>>59465402
I feel like it's the tradition now for scalpers to buy out all new Nintendo consoles on launch day and resell to the rabid fanboys for massive profit.

>>59463683
Side talking will never die!!

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>>59464702
3D tvs and virtual reality is the future

>>59473186
>>59473193
Sony put rootkits on their music CDs.

You're obviously too young to remember the anti piracy insanity of the early 2000s.

>>59473276
>literally referenced that specific event
>lol you're too young
Fuck off, dumbass.

>>59473276
I'm aware of that irrelevant shit, but:
wtf does that have to do with industrial design of products?

>>59465480
i feel you, lost mine two years ago. keep the memory.

>>59465655
Whatever happened to the laser disk?

>>59464647
We saved broadcasts on Zip100s when I was working at a public access station.

Or, that was the plan. Nobody could get the goddamn thing to work so we just installed a cd burner.

>>59467507
The point of these things is to plug those gigantic fucking power bricks into these and have these run the the powerstrip. This way you don't lose have of your plugs due to X Company not understanding power bricks with the prongs on them are fucking retarded.

>>59468453
Because they figured people would figure out how to burn games if the PSP was just hi-md.

Also capacity, a dual layer UMD could hold 1.8GB.

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>>59468565
>the days of sony es stereos tying a room together are gone

makes me so sad.

>>59465203
Lolno. Ps3 was a massive disappointment at launch and continued to be for years. Sony lied about absolutely everything the machine could do.

Does no one else remember how many multiplat games looked WORSE on the ps3? Within ~2 years most games were more or less the same on both, but there really weren't any great reasons to choose ps3 over xbox. I had both but i usually picked the 360 version every time to avoid long ass install and load times. Also don't forget a lot of games were way buggier on ps3. I got skyrim on ps3 and quickly ran into the issue of constant game crashes and saves being deleted at random at around 70 hours. It was apparently very common. Bethesda released a patch after a while, but it had a habit of wiping all save files so i just gave up on it.

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>>59474102

Don't know if you remember it, but Iomega used to ship an audio converter with their Zip drives that created MP2 files to store on your Zip disks to play music from. Just googled it, it was called Iomega Recordit.

I used it once. I converted a few Detroit Techno and Chicago House tunes to mp2 and stashed it on a Zip disk, played it a few times, then erased all of it.

>>59469129
It'd be cool, sure, but not very practical. Digital distribution is the way of the future. It's assumed (not agreeing here, just stating) that all people have super fast internet and plenty of storage to just download games. Plus you can just redownload whenever and don't have to keep track of physical media. Or so they claim anyway.

And add in processors of yore were not only uncommon, but added to the price of the cart. And they functioned more like accelerators. Modern systems cant really accommodate that. You cant really just slap in a single purpose component. These days it would likely add too much latency to be worth a damn.

>>59474524
I think this is because they decided to go with the unfamiliar Cell architecture instead of the more familiar PowerPC architecture like the 360 did. Apparently Cell is a bitch to code for. Kaz claimed it was used in supercomputers, but I dunno.

>>59474550
The station was staffed mostly with 14 year old volunteers (including myself at the time), a teacher coordinator, and like two old dudes that were actually in charge of the equipment but the equipment itself was government owned so good luck upgrading.

>>59474599
I hate when people use terms like, "digital," or, "physical," in this context. Games on an optical disc or cartridge? The data is still digital. Game downloaded to a hard drive? The game is still stored on a physical piece of hardware, the hard drive.

I prefer using the terms, "download," and, "retail," honestly.

>>59463243
Just look at the label to find out why it failed.
>region lock
>copy protection
>"universal" in the name, just like "democratic" in "people's democratic republic"

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>>59474077
I bought them all.

>>59474672

Digital and physical are more accurate, especially since you could buy a download from a retail store.

>>59473107
Not DivX, DIVX. Learn your history.

>>59474735
idiot

>>59467100
Don't forget that each one came with a unique serial number, so it actually reported barcode + unique serial number. And when you got it from Radioshack they would ask for your phone #, which they would then tie to the serial number.

>>59474743
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

DVD that expires, not a codec.

i just put a minidisc player, what should i expect?

>>59474844
do you have prerecorded discs?

>>59474347
Well, tell the graphic designer who made that box because they didn't get the memo.

>>59475107
They often don't.

>>59469129
The Switch uses cartridges..

>>59474723
Fuck you Sony for making Patapon 2 download only.

>>59475225
Its internal nand is faster too

>>59463487
>geometry after the pixel shader
okay

>>59464837
NV Shield tv was for a long time the only 4K tv box.

>>59463243
>UDM
>sold millions of copies of games over several years
>DOA

I don't think you know what DOA means