Sep 21, 2025
Remembering the loser in the format war: a stack of HD-DVDs, the disks that were Betamaxed by the Blu-Ray.
Here's what the print at the center of one of the disks looks like:
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Remembering the loser in the format war: a stack of HD-DVDs, the disks that were Betamaxed by the Blu-Ray.
Here's what the print at the center of one of the disks looks like:
Sealed for your protection: a fleet of cordless landline phones. Sure, people still use them today, there’s one at my work since it has a landline number and all, but consider these deprecated from when everyone had a house phone.
For those of we who wondered if the HD-DVD format ever had computer hardware made for it, since Blu-Ray readers/writers are easy to find.
Turns out that yes, Toshiba stepped in for a moment.
Actually, no, Kmart was not forever. This photo is from 2002.
(accurately: Six still exist out of a peak of 2,485... and only 3 are in the USA.)
oldmanyellsatcloud:
#whens the last time any of yall had to buy batteries
Y’all don’t understand. AA’s are cheap and plentiful, but the battery that comes with this MD player is a 9WM (1.2VDC, 1200mAh). Find one on the shelf today? Nahh, discontinued a decade ago. Worth the investment? On some models that use it, sure, it does indeed slightly more than double the battery life of the player (example: 7 hours from AA + 7 hours from 9WM = 15 hours from both) -- but on this one, nahh, it just means you play the disc two more times, maybe.
Aww, SNAP, I found an actual Food Stamp at a yardsale!