What's a technology that you went "all-in" on that didn't last?

Nothing, because I’m always late to update technology.
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MiniDisc. I still have two Sony portables, a Denon deck, and around seventy new discs, plus around forty discs I’ve recorded.

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I usually wait a while before trying new tech stuff - long enough for the problems to be found & fixed, and for the prices to come down. Nothing on the poll was a tech I used.
However…
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Ya gotta love the ka-chunk mid-song!!!

If you know, you know!

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Oh the memories of the Palm pre. I still miss the pebble shape and sliding keyboard. Beautiful phone, awesome OS.

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Funny, because I have a box of em, they still work even without active sims.

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ADAT

In '96 I went to an audio recording school and recorded a few of my band’s songs there on ADAT. Whoah, digital! but… on magnetic tape. Had a few copies made to regular old cassette tapes. Cassette tapes invariably disintegrated to the 4 corners of the world over the years.

Went to have my old ADATs turned to .wav or whatever (the old digital to digital conversion :thinking:) and the tape had degraded too much. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Still have mine, and finally found a way to get the Zune program to work again ( middle finger to MS for killing the software). I use it for my motorcycle trips so I don’t interfere with the cellphones duties.

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Nook Tablet, it seemed like it was the e-reader to have over the Kindle. I should never have bet against Amazon. Still have a bunch of good books on B&N…

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Only one I fell for…

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Never underestimate the power of the porn industry. The rumor was that once Vivid Entertainment went Blu-Ray, the dominoes began to fall for HDDVD.

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Minidisc was an amazing format! Loved that you record on the fly with an external mic, made it really easy to bootleg concerts.

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I didn’t, but my parents went all in on a satellite dish. The kind you had to move that was close to the size of a kiddie pool. The best part was none of the channels could be blocked….

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Seeing as I’m the guy that transfers old video formats to digital for people, nothing has totally died off for me yet.

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WikiReader…

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Reel to reel multitrack. Oops.

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Sony Walkman Cd, then Sony MINIDISC!

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Probably my 35mm Cameras, lenses and assorted accessories for them along with slide projector, screen, etc… Also classes on developing film.

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HD-DVD

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Palm PDA device and a digital camera that used 3.5 floppy :floppy_disk: for storage

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