OLDBIEONE (21:4/122) wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

I bought a NetMD by Sony, it was better than the Diamond Rio. Best Buy
tried to promote Windows XP by saying you can buy a Diamond Rio for like 49.99, but they all never came in the store at the time I ordered Windows
XP upgrade for my PC back in 2001.

I think you're right on the NetMD coming out in 2000 or 2001, it was definitely later than the Rio, which I got in '99 as we were preparing
for the good old Y2K and crunching on crusty COBOL systems.

Ah...memories!! :)
There's no doubt the Sony kicked it's a** though!

The big thing I did not like about the format was that, the NetMD discs had issues
like floppies. Some of them did not read well. I was happy to have that NETMD device
when I was traveling 2 hours each way by bus to school back then.

Sadly mini discs are out of prihnt and more expensive.

I ended up getting an ipod 30gb back in 2003 as my graduation present to
yself.


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Re: Re: When everything is di
By: Matthew Munson to Oldbieone on Sat Mar 04 2023 09:28 am

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The big thing I did not like about the format was that, the NetMD discs had issues
like floppies. Some of them did not read well. I was happy to have that NETM device
when I was traveling 2 hours each way by bus to school back then.

The portability and the amount of songs you could throw on one of those wasn't really touched until the iPod

Sadly mini discs are out of prihnt and more expensive.

I looked them up sometime last year on eBay after seeing a Techmoan video on MD and they were going for a pretty penny back then. I seem to recall seeing an album release last year or maybe the year before (in the pandemic, so time sort of runs together) where a band released a limited run of their album on MD. Must have cost a fortune!
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I am not sure it is a problem with modern delivery systems as it is a problem with art benig devaluated in general.

I think you're right and your examples related to general availability (legal/not legal) of various digital media (music, movies, games, books)
are very valid examples of shallowing the value of those.

I find it in myself as well, that's why I've returned to physical media as partial solution to help me handle the burden.

So what I have 1000 of PDFs with rpg books I always wanted to read as having those in a folder makes me unable to choose and read one.

It's easier with movies and audio as they can become background noise and regular fly byes. I find it extremely frustrating that books of various sorts are so broadly available today without that sense of achievement just like you described.

Going back physical and selecting niche medium as storage is somehow helping
to limit availability as a psychological trick or cheat.

That at least helped me personally to start appreciating consumer-focused media more.

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Instead of repeating watching one great movie to remember
it, people watch 100th part of Marvel for the same
reason... not knowing the difference between them anymore,
over time.

I don't understand what you mean by 100th part.

Oh, there has been so many that I stopped reckoning, thus if it's 10 or 100 point is.. more parts come, more they copy the same and create shallow waters for the brand. I'm bored with Marvel to hell.. same with Star Wars

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Hello hollowone!

** On Tuesday 07.03.23 - 05:36, hollowone wrote to Ogg:

I don't understand what you mean by 100th part.

Oh, there has been so many that I stopped reckoning, thus
if it's 10 or 100 point is.. more parts come, more they
copy the same and create shallow waters for the brand.

Ah. Ok.

I'm bored with Marvel to hell.. same with Star Wars

I thought ST - Picard (Season 1, 10 episodes) was pretty good.

Although... I thought that the little on/off switch at the neck
of the androids seemed a bit inconsistent. I mean, when it
came to the point that some "sentient" androids were poised to
trigger a war, no one seemed to consider just turning them
"off".


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Re: When everything is di
By: Ogg to hollowone on Tue Mar 07 2023 07:11 pm

I thought ST - Picard (Season 1, 10 episodes) was pretty good.

Although... I thought that the little on/off switch at the neck
of the androids seemed a bit inconsistent. I mean, when it
came to the point that some "sentient" androids were poised to
trigger a war, no one seemed to consider just turning them
"off".

I'm not sure they were all designed exactly the same way. Those Androids ("synths") in Picard season 1 looked different than Data (they weren't modeled after Dr. Soong), so I figured they could have been designed slightly differently by whoever made them. They might not have had that off switch.

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I thought ST - Picard (Season 1, 10 episodes) was pretty good.

I need to give it another try. I dont have Amazon so I need to source it somehow. But I liked the initial episode that kicked it on, at prime time and I recognized it may be good.

It was just on guest access to Amazon and I haven't managed to have my own since.

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I thought ST - Picard (Season 1, 10 episodes) was pretty good.

I need to give it another try. I dont have Amazon so I need to source it somehow. But I liked the initial episode that kicked it on, at prime
time and I recognized it may be good.

The most recent episode features Picard dropping an f-bomb. I was shook. lol

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Re: Re: When everything is di
By: hollowone to Ogg on Fri Mar 10 2023 12:35 pm

I thought ST - Picard (Season 1, 10 episodes) was pretty good.

I need to give it another try. I dont have Amazon so I need to source it somehow. But I liked the initial episode that kicked it on, at prime time and I recognized it may be good.

It was just on guest access to Amazon and I haven't managed to have my own since.

I didn't know Star Trek: Picard was on Amazon Prime.. I thought it was primarily (or only?) available on Paramount Plus (at least in the US).

Nightfox
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Re: Re: When everything is di
By: esc to hollowone on Fri Mar 10 2023 08:55 pm

The most recent episode features Picard dropping an f-bomb. I was shook. lol

And the "S word" as well.

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Re: Re: When everything is di
And the "S word" as well.

NO! Not the 'S' word?

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