Literally have had a 25 year sustained hate-boner for Sony.

@Moon It seems like the only things they will ever be known for are the Walkman and the PlayStation brand. Everything else is just useless junk that has better alternatives.

@Moon Oh yeah, they also made Blu-Ray but I think Sony fucked it up by making it an even more proprietary and DRM filled format than DVD and it was just a few years before digital downloads and eventually streaming took off. Now, it will have the legacy as a niche format like LaserDisc.

@xianc78 Wait a minute are you talking shit about laserdisc
@Moon @xianc78 I wouldn't exactly call them "niche", considering they were basically mainstream in Japan all the way up to when DVDs really started taking off there.
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@allison @Moon I think VCDs were also popular there. I heard that VHS didn't take off in many parts of Asia because the humidity levels would deteriorate them faster.

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@xianc78 @allison VCDs were popular in poor Asia, I don't recall seeing many in Japan but I could be wrong. I saw commercial movies on 8mm tape though lol

@Moon @allison The Japanese Saturn supported them through an add-on.

@xianc78 @allison I think almost every CD-ROM attachment had an addon for it, I even saw them in the USA where there were zero VCDs
@Moon @xianc78 @allison I don't think I ever saw an actual, physical VCD; just torrents for them.
@djsumdog @xianc78 @allison the quality is dog shit, significantly worse than VHS.

I have a VCD bootleg of Star Wars: Phantom Menace, from Turkey. It looks almost-official, the only things that tip you off are the Mortal Kombat logo next to the VCD logo, and when the intro crawl starts you can hear the theater audience cheer.
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