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2ndclasscitizen
Jan 2, 2009

by Y Kant Ozma Post
Chalk up another MiniDisc-er. I got in when they first came out with the USB ones, so you didn't have to dub stuff to them. nthing how absolutely loving horrible Sony's software was.

SimplyCosmic posted:

Obsolete technology can lead to obsolete furniture.



The changeover from heavy, 4:3 SD TVs to light, widescreen, HDTVs
meant a lot of cheap TV cabinets ending up in the front lawns here over time.

Sure, you could put a smaller HDTV in there, but due to the aspect ratio, you ended up with a wide gap above that just never looked right.

I'm pretty sure my family had that exact cabinet. It got pushed out of the loungeroom when we got our first widescreen TV, although for a slightly different, and quite stupid, reason. My dad was at the store getting a new TV, haggled the guy down to a good discount, then called me at home to measure the width of the gap to make sure it would fit in.

Me: "Sure, where's the tape measure?"
Dad: "Don't worry about that, just measure it with your hand"

....without considering that I might have smaller hands than him.

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2ndclasscitizen
Jan 2, 2009

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Nerdrock posted:

This motherfucker right here was AMAZING. Those corners are a real bouncy rubber too. You could install RockBox and do all sorts of snazzy poo poo with it.

Edit : Also, it ran on AA batteries.

Rockbox owns, I put it on my iRiver H320 and could then play Doom on it :smug:

2ndclasscitizen
Jan 2, 2009

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Nerdrock posted:

or, you could drop the cash for the sweet Panasonic Q Gamecube.

That is totally made using the frame of a broadcast preview monitor.

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