Obsolete stuff

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Two things, really.

- A video tape player (You know, the one where you have to insert the black boxes.) Seriously, who has a video tape player anymore? I do. I believe mine is a VHS.
- A record player. Again, who owns one? Everyone can get music/videos on CDs now. Thank God I have an HD TV and and Xbox 360.

I have and still buy media for both. I can buy a VHS copy of a movie for $0.50-$1.00 (Half of - all of the cost of a one day DVD rental) and then keep it, not having to worry about late fees or going out and returning the stupid disc, not to mention avoiding the problems with scratched disks those rental kiosks tend to have. Also, my local library system still has a lot more films on VHS than it does on DVD, to say nothing of extra copies. There's something like one copy of the Star Trek movies on DVD in the entire county, but there's so many VHS copies that any given library is likely to have a copy, no waiting or transfer requests required.

As for records, they have quite a few things going for them. For one thing, I can pick up an album for $0.99, the cost of a single track on iTunes. For another, the sound quality on a clean, relatively scratch free album is incredible. It blows any compressed digital formats out of the water, and depending on how it was mastered, is often better sounding than CD as well. I don't know whose idea it was to start throwing out the overtones in music, but there is a special place in hell reserved for them. I'm now off to listen to my copy of Kansas' Point of Know Return in glorious analog vinyl -- you haven't heard Dust in the Wind until you've heard it on that big black disc.

 

[C95J]

I have tons of random crap around my room which I haven't touched in years...

 

[IsraelRocks]

Some people say wrist watches.

Although i can understand why you would think that, and i cant say you are completely wrong, but i LOVE my watch. i cant stand being without one. i use all its functions and for the most part its allot more reliable then a cell phone (battery wise yes?)

 

[IsraelRocks]

Some people say wrist watches.

Although i can understand why you would think that, and i cant say you are completely wrong, but i LOVE my watch. i cant stand being without one. i use all its functions and for the most part its allot more reliable then a cell phone (battery wise yes?)

 

[XMark]

I think it's entirely silly how much we use a fax machine at work. Especially since I work in a company that does web programming. And pretty much everything that we receive by fax was initially a computer document that was printed out.

Extra funny points for when we get a junk fax that's advertising toner.

 

[Gaiseric]

Some people say wrist watches.

Although i can understand why you would think that, and i cant say you are completely wrong, but i LOVE my watch. i cant stand being without one. i use all its functions and for the most part its allot more reliable then a cell phone (battery wise yes?)

I love my watch as well.

I just remember a thread not too long ago where some people were saying that and a conversation I had with my brother and a friend about why I still wear a watch when I have a cell phone.

 

[ElNeroDiablo]

PC's, all we really need are laptops since they're easier to carry around, I think PC's may have a bigger storage but i'm not sure... I don't think we need them anyway, correct me if i'm wrong

You're shitting me right? 99% of technology development is aimed at the Desktop/Tower/Server design first THEN adapted in order to fit inside that tiny space inside the laptop. Laptops are hard to upgrade and repair (unless it's your BUSINESS working with them and you have every last tool required to do so) whilst a Desktop/Tower/Server can be upgraded and repaired by taking the side panel(s) off and swapping the parts around without worrying if you're gonna damage the cable or plug for the keyboard, or the monitor, or the contacts for the battery...

Laptops are fine if you want to carry what's basically a cut-down desktop with you, but you have issues such as battery life (which drains faster the more strain and use you put on the system, this also goes for ANY fucking portable device that runs off batteries, be it iWhatever, 3DS or your TV remote) and upgrade paths, and if it has issues that aren't simply software ones then you're Shit Outta Luck unless you have the technical know-how to fix it yourself (which requires the same skills it takes to build and maintain a Desktop system, but even MORE care lest you fuck it up even worse) or send it in to someone you have to pay to fix the problem.

 

[hotsauceman]

OT: No idea. The appendix maybe?

They found a use for that a few years ago. It replaces bacteria in you stomach if you ever loose it.
Maybe game informer magazines. Or real books

 

[twistedmic]

While moving recently, I found an old 3.5 floppy disk (the hard kind, not the actual floppy kind), a Polaroid camera, a Video cassette and a micro-cassette recorder with a cassette still inside.

 

[annilator666]

manual transmissions. man those things irritate me. we don't freakin' need them. WHY do they keep making them!?

i get better acceleration and more power control and more torque with a manual


as for obsolete items ive got 3 1/2" floppys, cassettes, vinal record (which to me have better sounds quality then anything), wax cylinders, and probably a few other things im forgetting

 

[Wintermoot]

manual transmissions. man those things irritate me. we don't freakin' need them. WHY do they keep making them!?

those are pretty popular in Europe I haven,t seen a AT car here yet.
OT
I keep a old spare phone in case something happens to my iPhone I also have a old CRT TV for my older game systems.

 

[Wintermoot]

manual transmissions. man those things irritate me. we don't freakin' need them. WHY do they keep making them!?

i get better acceleration and more power control and more torque with a manual


as for obsolete items ive got 3 1/2" floppys, cassettes, vinal record (which to me have better sounds quality then anything), wax cylinders, and probably a few other things im forgetting

I don,t think vinyl is obsolete last time I went to a major electronics store they still sold them.

 

[Merkavar]

what about film. film seems to be obselete except for the artist or high quality photographers. but for the general population film seems obselete.

probably mentioned already

 

[annilator666]

manual transmissions. man those things irritate me. we don't freakin' need them. WHY do they keep making them!?

i get better acceleration and more power control and more torque with a manual


as for obsolete items ive got 3 1/2" floppys, cassettes, vinal record (which to me have better sounds quality then anything), wax cylinders, and probably a few other things im forgetting

I don,t think vinyl is obsolete last time I went to a major electronics store they still sold them.

good point there

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

Cassette tapes and cassette players, floppy disks, windows 98, those big brown box tvs, film cameras, newspapers...there's a bunch of stuff that's obsolete

 

[Icehearted]

Newspapers.

Ironically I work for a newspaper publisher.

A solicitor came to my home trying to sell me on a subscription and when I declined he said something like "you probably just get all your news from the internet, huh?". I said yes and he laughed, admitting to the same.

Seasons change. We survived audio cassettes going away, this can fare as well if they play things right (print for the elderly and businesses, market digital to everyone else).

I'm sure you'd know this better than I, but I think having a free 24 hour option beginning with cable news broadcasters are the real problem for this once very prominent business.