Comments on: Betamax

By: Masklinn

Masklinn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:37:03 +0000

how do I make sure I don’t buy this Betamax crap any more?

Well start by not buying anything from Sony.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:30:14 +0000

I just had a quick look and sure enough my Sony MD player is still sitting there with about 40 mini disks. It’s in the shoe box with my Sony Walkman, just can’t bear to throw them out!

By: Gill

Gill — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:54:55 +0000

You are not the only one. I bought a Japanese import car which came equipped with a 6 port MD player. Impressed or what! No jumping, no piles of cassettes rattling around.

Then came the downside, I couldn’t actually find anywhere that sold pre-recorded MDs so, undaunted, I rushed out and bought a pile of blanks so I could make up my own.

Of course you then need a way to actually do that, so an Aiwa MD/CD system was duly purchased, various tracks recorded and I happily swanned around listening to good quality, non-jumping sounds.

Trouble is, I’ve now sold the car.

Anyone want to buy a hardly used MD/CD system and a pile of blank MDs?

By: chris foreman

chris foreman — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:23:46 +0000

I have an Aiwa MD player somewhere…bloody loved it at the time. I think I still have a few discs as well.

people always say Star Trek predicted the futute of tech (floppy discs etc) but they forget that it also “invented” a lot of rubbish which fell by the wayside and never happened for real.

The trick is to

Buy everything.
Sell wot is crap before anyone realises
Claim to the world you can predict the tek future
Take the credit and be called a guru.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:31:11 +0000

This reminds me of my first mp3 player; I got it in 2000 as a leaving gift from work and it played mp3 CDs! It was orange and silver and so bleeding edge I never saw anyone else with one. I think the iPod probably came out not too long after and no-one else ever *did* get one. For that briefest of moments I had the coolest bit of tech on the block; now I have to spend time arguing with pub quiz hosts who insist that ‘mp3′ is short for ‘music player 3′, things just aren’t the same…

By: Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:30:37 +0000

Yeah, the Mini Disc was great, but remember the NetMD? Sony’s ‘reply’ to the iPod?

It took hours to encode music in the proprietary ATRAC format (I remember the pain that I had trying to get stuff I’d downloaded the night before onto the thing in time to catch the train to college), the (again, proprietary) software was buggy and memory hogging and I loathed it to death. It’s permanently stained my memories of Mini Disc forever…