Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.
Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .
Have you ever owned a My (answers)
-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe
-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn’t last long… 😖
-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. 🙂
-3D Television? No
-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.
-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner
Let’s see
PDA: I mostly dodged this one. I did have a blackberry phone before I got my first Android.
DVD Recorder: Nope. I had a reader and a burner in my PC and I occasionally copied like that. My buddy had a 6 drive dvd duplicator though and that thing was amazing. Source disc I. The top, 5 blanks in their burners.
WebTV: No also. My mom almost bought a Philips 3DO but bailed at the last second crushing my hopes and dreams.
3D TV: I had a set of active shutter glasses from MSI that worked with a pair of 32mb Voodoo2 video cards in SLI. Each card rendered the image for an eye. I remember playing TONS of Quake 2.
RaspPi: Yes and it’s still in use running my 3d printer.
Internet Radio: I streamed a ton of internet radio on iTunes. Worked as a graphic designer for a newspaper and that was the only way to not hear my bosses breath whistle through her teeth.
Any TiVo veterans?
I loved my Tivo… could never get anyone at the time to understand the concept of recording without tapes. But it could have succeeded.
Then Tivo decided to force push a recording at peak time of an absolute garbage comedy program… and as these things only had a single tuner, hilarity ensued. The tabloids loved it. Tivo left the UK shortly afterwards.
VM licensed the tech many years later but it wasn’t the same… gone was the hackable powerpc board running luascript, replaced by a fully locked down vendor specific cable box.
A buddy of mine was so proud that he had the entirety of The Simpsons on his TiVo (at the time). He was soooooo pissed when lightning hit a utility pole and fried a bunch of his electronics. The tivo was wrecked.
Yes, TiVo lifetime but it has a s-video cable on it. 😥 Series II I believe