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What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?

I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.

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[โ€“] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, true, maybe not HD, haha, but I was just referring to how to continue breathing life into a DVD player. But yeah, I didn't even know HD DVDs existed, given Blu-Ray...

[โ€“] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Haha yeah, I think HD-DVDs were a bit more budget friendly compared to Blurays, but they were the extremely short-lived "team red" in the format war, and ultimately they weren't a huge improvement to upgrade to, unlike Blu-rays when everybody was jumping to 1080p.

But yeah! Absolutely! Hit up the library and enjoy those DVDs (and Blu-rays)!

I was just having a discussion with a coworker who was wondering why one would keep a DVD player around, and I basically explained how not owning your media gets it ripped away from you sooner or later.

Libraries sometimes even get DVD versions of streamed TV shows and movies that don't get a retail disc release.