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What are your worst tech purchases?
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A Sony Minidisc recorder / player in the early 2000s. So much DRM. So many bugs. I'll never buy Sony again.
I am still very fond of MiniDisc and have all my old discs and equipment, which still works and plays just fine. But yeah, the 2000s were the decade of DRM and Sony’s tech side was constantly at odds with its media side. Limitations on optical recording & dubbing from MD to MD, using their horrible SonicStage software for NetMD, and horrible marketing overseas handicapped them constantly.
They finally got it right with their very last flagship NetMD portable (apart from its OLED screens dying after a few years) but by then Apple had made the iPod the default portable listening experience and Sony had very obviously lost.
They did make some excellent MP3 players, but once again: proprietary data connectors, restrictive media transfers, poor CODEC support, and freaking SonicStage made using those a nightmare as well. They never did learn.
MiniDisc as a format seemed to make huge sense at the time - mp3's were a thing, but writable CDs were clunky and iPods hadn't arrived yet. But yes - it was unusable - literally - I don't remember actually being able to listen to anything I really wanted to listen to on it.
Your mention of NetMD awoke memories of absolute rage for me! Just trying to install it was flakey. Then trying to get MP3's onto disc - it was never clear where the bugs stopped and where the DRM started. It simply didn't work. I was left feeling Sony were actively hostile to their customers. Never again!