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Originally posted by: segaflipWhat is this coming from? Example?
i should've spent a minute looking up a more appropriate word than "tragic."
what i meant was more along the lines of "serious annoyance."
Betamax example: launched with a one-hour-per-tape recording time.
MiniDisc example: proprietary codec, one-way digital connection between MD and PC (you can make a digital copy of MD data onto a PC, but not the other way around. want to compress music to MD's ATRAC from a different format and digitally transfer to MD?... sorry, real-time analog input only)
HiFD example: 1st version recalled due to widespread defects, 2nd version incompatible with 1st version.
Memory Stick example: um... nothin' wrong with this one (and its many variations), i guess. just expensive. and proprietary. as usual. now with copyright protection.
UMD movie example (just for the sake of repeating myself, hehe): it only plays on one portable device, and on nothing else?