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[tomswift]

Due to popular demand the complete list:

1. HD DVD
2. Apple Newton
3. The Amiga
4. Tube Amps
5. CRT's
6. DVD-Audio
7. MiniDisc
8. Rambus
9. Keyboards with real switches
10. Knobs

Sorry about not including the complete list but now I'm sure everyone will want the whole article so they can better understand the magazines reasoning.

[weirdami]

That's a stupid list.

[nBit7]

Rambus??? When did the PS3 loose the console war?

[persia]

Knobs? WTF (crosses legs nervously)....

[persia]

No wonder no one has heard of the magazine, it's a random list of unrelated things.

[Nlandas]

MaximumPC is the only PC magazine I'll read. It's my one last bastion of flair in the boring world of PC compatibles. It reminds me a tiny bit of the original Amiga magazines I used to be able to read.

For all of you that want to read the article for free - maximumpc.com will have the full issue as a PDF in a few months on their site.

http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/PDF%2BArchive

I wish we could have the remaining Amiga magazine sell us a PDF online. I can't afford shipping overseas plus the subscription but I likely could afford a PDF version. I won't even ask for it to be free like MaximumPC is after a few months.

:-D

[alexatkin]

Indeed, how can you say CRT is a failed technology? Tube amps too. They are both things which were really popular at the time but have been phased out purely for cost/practicality reasons.

You can only call a technology failed if it was still a valid technology but died for silly reasons. Like company mismanagement, poor advertising, bad reception from the customers, etc.

Also I have to agree that HD DVD while being much more organised (all its features work on ALL HD DVD players, something Blu ray cannot claim) is/was in the inferior format.

Blu ray made big claims and it seems will (eventually) deliver on those. The problem was always cost and the fact Blu ray being more ambicious was missing most of its promised features when HD DVD was already finalised. But once the players actually WORK, Blu-ray will be an excellent format.

I already love the fact that its REALLY hard to scratch the disks because of the hard coating they had to put on due to the data being so close to the surface. Sure it makes them more expensive to manufacture but it also forces them to manufacture them well, because a shoddy disk will not work at all whereas on DVD I have a ton of DVDs that were not glued together properly and I am sure will start to separate and fail in years to come.
HD DVD on the other hand stuck the layers together the same way as DVD so still left it wide open for poor mass production.

Blu ray disks just feel so solid compared to DVD/HD DVD due to the thicker back layer. Its good to be able to accidentally drop a disk and them brush the dust off with an easy wipe from your clothing, without leaving a single spec of dust or scratch on the surface because its so glossy.

[AeroMan]

Is Rambus a Stallone movie in latin ? :-D :-D :-D

Rambus XVIII - The revenge of Cesar...

[persia]

New list.

1) a ball of string
2) true
3) Random
4) fortune cookies
5) my damn mobile, it doesn't even have one bar right here...
6) There is no item #6
7) lists of things
8) The Beginning
9)The Middle
10) The End

[koaftder]

@weirdami

You got that right. This is indeed a stupid list.

[joblow]

hi,had the amiga continued as it should have,then bill gates today would be a broken man.