Things which really died a death.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Coca-Cola Tab Clear.
Segway
Tivo

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Tuesday 15th May 19:38

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Wednesday 16th May 20:28

[phil1979]

Blackberry. Except me, as I am typing this on the Passport, simply the best smartphone ever made.

Also, Alcopops.

And to a large extent, unless it's your hobby or profession, cameras.

[Willy Nilly]

popegregory said:

The Darkness

Saw them just before Christmas and they were on top form. There are currently on tour in the USA

[eldar]

Friends Reunited.

Hard wired home phones.

[phil1979]

Oh, and printed Grumble material.

[Gameface]

Travel Fox
British Knights
LA Gear

[adam85]

Willy Nilly said:

Saw them just before Christmas and they were on top form. There are currently on tour in the USA

Surely if anything The Darkness have had somewhat of a career revival of late

[jmorgan]

Palm handheld computers.
Psion?
Today newspaper
Laker airlines

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 15th May 19:55

[anonymous-user]

quite a lot of sweets and bubble gum. fked if I can remember their names but there were many more around in the 80s-90s than there are now.

Can you still buy CRT TVs?

Trike bikes. Died a death due to killing people easily if memory serves.

[jmorgan]

98elise said:

IIRC Betamax home systems were derived from a commercial/pro system so we're actually better than VHS, however better does not mean it will dominate.

Some irony, a PAL off VHS tape was terrible. Chuck it through a digital encode/decode back to PAL and it looked a lot better on a scope. Unintended consequences.

On that note, PAL?

[stemll]

Ayahuasca said:

tuffer said:

Cable & Wireless. A global network, incumbent Telco in many Countries, fleet of cable laying ships........Boom.

I wish. My cellphone, landline and internet is run by Cable and Wireless and I have a loathe / hate relationship with them.

Was going to say, not quite gone yet.

Still big in the Caribbean and Central America. Believe they are owned by Liberty Global who own Virgin Media and are owned by the same people as Liberty Media (who own F1)

[motco]

jmorgan said:

Palm handheld computers.
Psion?
Today newspaper
Laker airlines

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 15th May 19:55

'The Independent' newspaper. From noble beginnings to a red rag with green spots.

[shirt]

jmorgan said:

underwhelmist said:

Most formats that Sony have tried to impose on the market - Betamax, Minidisk, memory sticks (proprietary Sony ones, not standard usb), Super Audio CD, there are probably others. Was DAT a Sony format?

It’s not that they were necessarily bad formats, but other manufacturers either never bothered or weren’t allowed to support them. Maybe the licensing costs were prohibitive.

Edited for grammar which hasn’t yet died of death!

Edited by underwhelmist on Tuesday 15th May 19:23

Sort of a relative of Betamax went on to dominate the the news gathering etc. for sometime, betacam and it’s derivitives.

Thing is now, it’s mpeg and other compression types etc. And a digital record and transport.

Edit. I think that means most physical storage will go digital rather than manufacture specific holding sway.

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 15th May 19:46

Didnt Sony stop developing software and formats due to the failures of the above? Seem to remember a big shift towards hardware in the 90s.

[SCEtoAUX]

cloggy said:

Those electronic photo frames.

Winner.

[br d]

[Kermit power]

dci said:

Bluetooth headsets..

Their days became numbered as soon as the car manufacturers twigged that they could charge for Bluetooth preparation as an optional extra.

I don't think they died so much as they evolved into decent quality headphones which also have a microphone built in.

I've got a set that I use to listen to podcasts and music on a pretty much daily basis. It still tends to make me jump when the phone rings whilst I'm wearing them! I also use them fairly frequently for video-conferencing when I'm on a desk in an open plan office, and I'm far from alone in that.

[SCEtoAUX]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Coca-Cola Tab Clear.
Tivo

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Tuesday 15th May 19:38

We had a Tivo and it was utterly brilliant. Way ahead of its time but terribly marketed. They talked about it as being a tapeless video recorder but people didn't like the fact that it didn't play their existing tapes. Who wants two video recorders?

What it was is the forerunner to Sky+ and it was doing it at least 10 years before that system came along.

So as a box, it never really sold (though it did a lot better in America) but as a concept it was bang on the money.

[jmorgan]

BSB

[overunder12g]

Sure this must have been done, but, "Died of Death" What a strange concept.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

motco said:

jmorgan said:

Palm handheld computers.
Psion?
Today newspaper
Laker airlines

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 15th May 19:55

'The Independent' newspaper. From noble beginnings to a red rag with green spots.

I still like the Independent, except for the fact it's not really independent any more. It's well written.