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Posted on 7/23/14 at 9:51 am to BamaHater
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Back in 01-02 right around the time I graduated from high school bought a Sony Mini Disc player. Thought I was hot shite. The MD player was cool for a time till it crapped out. Mini Disc never caught on and soon after the Ipod came out.
This was going to be my answer. Still have my player and some blank discs.
The Mini Disc was superior to the CD-RW but everyone and their grandmaw already had a CD player and CD-Rs became so cheap that they became throwaway media.
Minidisc never had a chance.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 9:56 am to BamaHater
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Sony Mini Disc player
FIL bought these for me and the wife and I used mine a good bit.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:07 am to EveryonesACoach
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I too thought I had the much better device than the iPod with it's stupid click-wheel...
The Creative Zen Vision M is the best MP3 ever made. I got mine in 2004. 60GB storage. Good battery life. Radio. Recorder. All the works. Wheel or not.
It still works like a champ today and I travel frequently so its seen some bumps and bruises. 10 year old MP3 player. I've taken it apart to fix the screen once on my own (only this past year). Still has great battery life. Still has fast download. I bought it at the time because I didn't want to be handcuffed to iTunes as that program was horrible on Windows machines early.
Probably one of my single best tech purchases ever as it works well enough that I have only now started to use my phone as a compliment mp3 player/podcast organizer.
I plan to use it until it dies completely.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:13 am to Freauxzen
I had this bad boy around 2003 or so, Rio Karma MP3 Player:
It was way ahead of its time, and that's probably why it(and the company) ended up failing. It's 20GB of storage was among the highest you could get at the time, and was engineered to have great sound quality and playback options. It also had built in audio vizualizers, line in recording options, and wireless transfer. It was also the only MP3 player for a long time to offer gapless playback and automatic playlist building. It was a audiophile machine. This was before the iPod really took off so everyone thought I was a badass for having one
Write up on a website called "Anything but iPod" https://anythingbutipod.com/2008/03/10th-anniversay-of-the-mp3-player/
It was way ahead of its time, and that's probably why it(and the company) ended up failing. It's 20GB of storage was among the highest you could get at the time, and was engineered to have great sound quality and playback options. It also had built in audio vizualizers, line in recording options, and wireless transfer. It was also the only MP3 player for a long time to offer gapless playback and automatic playlist building. It was a audiophile machine. This was before the iPod really took off so everyone thought I was a badass for having one
Write up on a website called "Anything but iPod" https://anythingbutipod.com/2008/03/10th-anniversay-of-the-mp3-player/
This post was edited on 7/23/14 at 10:15 am
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:14 am to UltimaParadox
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HD-DVD player...
Same here.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:26 am to BamaHater
Sony Betamax...anyone old enough to remember?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:33 am to BamaHater
DivX DVD player
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:33 am to BamaHater
Dreamcast, Mini Disk, are two that come to mind
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:50 am to UltimaParadox
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HD-DVD player... Sony won this time with their deep pockets
Papa DGD made this same mistake. Still have a shite ton of HD DVDs around the house
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:50 am to BamaHater
didn't have one but a couple friends did.
massive failure.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 11:14 am to CBandits82
Sega Dreamcast Was the bomb!
Posted on 7/23/14 at 11:20 am to McKinneyttu97
Zune
Posted on 7/23/14 at 11:40 am to BamaHater
My pops bought a CDi when I was a kid.
Some games were actually good, but overall it was a terrible machine.
Some games were actually good, but overall it was a terrible machine.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 11:58 am to BamaHater
First thing to come to mind was the Atari Lynx. It was bigger than the Gameboy, but it had a lot better specs, and a color screen.
I also picked up an open box RCA DVD player with DIVX at Circuit City. At least DIVX was nice enough to send a rebate when they shut down. I still have a bunch of those discs. Is there any way to play them now?
I also picked up an open box RCA DVD player with DIVX at Circuit City. At least DIVX was nice enough to send a rebate when they shut down. I still have a bunch of those discs. Is there any way to play them now?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 5:55 pm to CubsFanBudMan
Checking in with Atari Jaguar. Could never beat Alien vs Predator.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:17 pm to BamaHater
I bought the original iPhone. It couldn't even copy/paste! Thank god it never caught on.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:08 am to VanRIch
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Zune
I owned the original Zune 30, the 8 GB flash player, and the HD. The only fail I didn't engage in was buying the brown Zune. 
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:11 am to BamaHater
Wii U
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:24 am to BamaHater
I just thought of a good one. Anyone remember Video Guide from the late 90s? It was an STB that provided a modern program guide for cable before it was available from the cable companies, and I think it could even control a VCR through an IR blaster. Somehow it downloaded the listings over radio frequencies. It was actually pretty slick.
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