ITT: post DOA technology

ITT: post DOA technology

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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.

AMD shouldn't exist.

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dumb sony

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

Yes, since theyre ditching it for USB-C

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it was very good like 1999-2005

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it's lighting brickheads

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

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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

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

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.

mini disc was fine, Hi-MD was DOA

MD was popular as hell in Japan.

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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.

Come on, FireWire saw very extensive use.

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

>popular as fuck
hell nah

>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.

as always propietary is what killed it.

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.

Neither should you

>projecting

>No mention of MiniDisc on Sup Forums 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

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.

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Didn't the drive eat disks?

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

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.

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

Definitely this.

Not sure about the tablet, though.

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

If so, mah nigga!

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.

The touchbar auto suggesting your password in plain text.

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.

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

HDDVD only died because it was cracked first.

It was head to head with Bluray for a while.

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

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

>What is native PS3 support

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

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

what do you mean

>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?

>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.

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cia pls go

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

DELET

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.

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

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.

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.

>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

>I feel like blowing my money on something
whore

>its introduction predated widespread knowledge of mp3


you do know MiniDisc predates mp3 all together, right?

you're that autistic fuck who keeps spamming that ugly bitch on Sup Forums?

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Mmmmmmmmmmaybe...not

You take that back, fucker

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

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

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

>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

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Shit son, :(

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

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

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Best handheld to date

I never said it was 100% perfection

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

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Yes, but it was DOA in USA and Europe.

>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

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

Underrated post

>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

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

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

But they weren't dead on arrival.

DOA?

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

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.

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.

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