Consumer products that you are glad you missed

Ush1 · 07-01-2014 10:15am

Dishwasher is always a much cleaner than hand washed. The temperature is generally higher.

iDave · 07-01-2014 10:16am

Akrasia · 07-01-2014 10:17am

JOSman wrote: »

Ran my minidisc last night, still sounded great. Just a flop from Sony.

Minidisks were a good idea but could not compete with MP3 players once the mini hard drives became cheap
It was a right pain in the arse to burn the mini-disks from CDs though but the plastic casing meant they never got scratched and you could fit way more music into your rucksack

shamrock55 · 07-01-2014 10:21am

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Apple products, have a real dislike for iTunes and how tied into apple products people get.

Same, i hate apple products and how taken in and obsessed people are with them

jester77 · 07-01-2014 10:24am

Minidiscs were great at the time and it was so easy to just copy a CD, 1 click and you had a perfect copy. I even had a few players imported from Japan. MP3 players at the time could only hold around 32MB worth of music, usually in really poor quality. Even todays MP3 players are inferior in terms of sound quality.

Not sure how anyone can live without a dishwasher, the only thing more important in the house is a toilet.

D-FENS · 07-01-2014 10:26am

Betamax surely?

Wibbs · 07-01-2014 10:28am

Red Kev wrote: »

Dishwasher. I've never lived in a house that has one, and I still haven't got around to buying one as I'm just as happy doing them by hand. Actually I haven't a clue how to use one, though can't think it's too difficult. I do know how to load them though.

Never owned a VCR either, didn't have one as a kid as they were mad expensive and we didn't have the dosh, now we have 3 DVD players.

Toasted sandwich machine. Never got around to getting one, no cash for it when we were kids. Not mad keen on getting one as I tend to burn the skin off me mouth with them anyway.

Video games/Playstation/PS 3 etc etc. Nope, never had one, played on one a couple of times. (I'm in my early 40's BTW) :-)

We're twins save for the VCR part.

ScumLord wrote: »

You didn't really miss out on those, they're still the best way to take a photo. Smartphone cameras while improving are still pretty terrible.

+1. and unless they change the laws of optics it's gonna be damned difficult to equal a standalone camera with a phone camera. Nerds gush over and manufacturers pimp the megapixels, but it soon gets to a point where it's all about the lens(plus smaller pixels make for less light gathering). They're great for candid shots and the like, but wont replace a standalone camera for enthusiasts or pros anytime soon.

Akrasia · 07-01-2014 10:30am

When I look back at family photos, you can see a really nice progression in the quality of the photos through the generations

Really old pictures in grainy black and white, then colour, then the point and click cameras which were usually washed out or too dark, then as better cameras became more affordable, the photos became crisper and brighter up until about the mid 90s when digital cameras became popular and the quallity started to match that of film cameras so there was a transition where the quality of the photos reduced slightly but they were more convenient so the quantity increased dramatically.
Then 2008 when the quality of pictures takes a massive nose dive as people start to rely on their smart phone cameras more and more and leave the digital cameras at home.

So looking back at my own family photo album. Pictures of my granny - rubbush
pictures of my parents as kids, rubbish
pictures of me as a baby, better but still rubbish
pictures of me in secondary school - quite good actually
pictures of me in College - sharp as a pin
Pictures of my first child - beautiful, high resolution
Pictures of my 3rd child - mostly rubbish again, low res dark and blurry.

07-01-2014 10:33am

Television. Never really liked it growing up. Do not own one now.

I am also in the never had one - dont want one - dishwasher group.

razorblunt · 07-01-2014 10:36am

Daqster wrote: »

I am a complete technophile.

Even had a Mini Disc Walkman.

Yup, I was the guy that bought it.

I had one too, absolutely loved it, only changed over when I was gifted an ipod for my birthday.

razorblunt · 07-01-2014 10:39am

Not really a consumer product but a service for me, lads in work get their shirts laundered for them, 5 shirts in being cleaned will get picked up on Friday and this weeks shirts handed in.

I find it oddly relaxing ironing my shirts watching whatever game is on tv on the Sunday night, probably helps that I can fly through the ironing whilst getting them done properly.

keano_afc · 07-01-2014 10:39am

Anything with an i in front of it. Dont know how people can justify spending so much on stuff that has cheaper alternatives that are just as good. "But my MacBook Pro is loike, beautiful. Look at the colours!". "What do you use it for?" "Mostly Facebook and email".

Wibbs · 07-01-2014 10:54am

Akrasia wrote: »

So looking back at my own family photo album. Pictures of my granny - rubbush
pictures of my parents as kids, rubbish
pictures of me as a baby, better but still rubbish
pictures of me in secondary school - quite good actually
pictures of me in College - sharp as a pin
Pictures of my first child - beautiful, high resolution
Pictures of my 3rd child - mostly rubbish again, low res dark and blurry.

Pretty much the trajectory alright. Though in my family add in a few male rellies rocking Leica's and Nikon's and the 50/60/70's stuff is often higher quality than the 80's 90's stuff and way higher than standard 50/60/70's stuff. Again all down to the lenses, just like today. The cheap point and click instamatic yoke of the 70's was using the same 35mm film stock as the Pentax SLR, but with very different results.

To be fair though, today the camera phones are much closer in quality to standalone cameras at least for the purpose 90% of people use a camera. Who needs a Hasselblad to take pics of your drunken mates gurning in a pub.

JJJJNR · 07-01-2014 10:59am

BMW.

07-01-2014 11:01am

Yeah, no television is fine. Still need a dishwasher :pac:

MugMugs · 07-01-2014 11:05am

JOSman wrote: »

Ran my minidisc last night, still sounded great. Just a flop from Sony.

Wasn't that their own fault though?

They wouldn't allow any other record companies release on it or something like that?

I found an old Morcheeba Minidisc last week :eek:

I actually paid for it

kunst nugget · 07-01-2014 11:05am

6541 wrote: »

I like you missed this, but it is one not to be proud of as debt forgiveness is on the way. So you could have had many houses and now they are just going to wipe the slate clean !!! Not a good one to have missed out on !

If (and it is a huge if) there's ever debt forgiveness there's not a chance in hell you'll be allowed to hold on to multiple properties. That is total pie in the sky thinking.

jrmb · 07-01-2014 11:11am

Ush1 wrote: »

Dishwasher is always a much cleaner than hand washed. The temperature is generally higher.

Often in my mother's house, the dishes aren't clean. The high temperature just bakes the dirt onto the utensils. Hand washing is much more effective.

Plazaman · 07-01-2014 11:21am

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Analogue mobile phones. 088.
Look it up kids!

Ahhh, Esat Dodgyphone, great craic altogether. And I had one of those brick phones too with the pull up antenna. I remember I could pick up phonecalls from 088 phones on my radio scanner mainly from the Donegal area for some reason. I could write a book with what I heard.

I remember a version of the Google glasses that was brought out in the States about 15 years ago. A small screen was fitted inside a pair of sunglasses and you had to hook a TV receiver to your belt. I think there was about 12 or 13 people killed walking into traffic or falling down steps before they pulled it off the market. Still, I'll give the Googly yolks a miss too.

Eileen Down · 07-01-2014 11:36am

No microwave, no dishwasher, no rampant rabbit, no fun....kill me.

osarusan · 07-01-2014 11:49am

The pet rock.

jester77 · 07-01-2014 11:53am

Plazaman wrote: »

Ahhh, Esat Dodgyphone, great craic altogether. And I had one of those brick phones too with the pull up antenna. I remember I could pick up phonecalls from 088 phones on my radio scanner mainly from the Donegal area for some reason. I could write a book with what I heard.

I thought eircell was the old 088 analog before going digital on 087 and that esat was 086. Or is my brain fried by all these wireless signals.

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