Things that failed to launch

The CHARLIES ANGELS tv series reboot.

Self-driving cars and trucks. By all predictions from the past 10 years, they should be all over the road by now.

QWhip

Betamax

All the FB alternatives

Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099)

Koogle spread. I miss it.

MiniDiscs

You rang.

Libby's Asian Favorites -- a brand of Asian-flavored meal kits from the mid-90s. I miss them. They were good.

Jon Hamm's movie career.

My ex husband.

Kenny Rogers Roasters -- their rotisserie chicken was actually good!

The McDLT

This list is great as I remember some of the products. The 1999 Cosmopolitan yogurt was hilarious.

Google Hangouts

Google Glasses

Microsoft Zune

Galaxy Note 7

I’m just not going to mention his name because I won’t look it up, but there was a special tastemaker who lost out on a lake house.

I follow his career and he’s good at working DOA companies.

LaserDiscs were a niche market. I briefly worked in a laserdisc shop in LA and most of the clientele were Hollywood celebrities and industry people.

Betamax was also the preferred medium in the tv industry because it was higher quality than VHS.

The Apple Newton. Led to a suicide.

Hillary Clinton

Al Gore

John Edwards

Pine Needle Mattresses

Well my big relaunch darling after Carnegie was going to be a real gone thing. You see. Yes. Well, things were just going really spot on dear, you see, when suddenly dear, I simply had to have a pill, and well you know my sweet darling how that ends. Oh my dear. I must say.

The Salton Sea as a resort destination.

What happened to that folding phone that was coming out?

YouTube Red

Salton Sea

Wow! Potato Chips contained olestra which was widely claimed to lead to anal leakage.

Seneca Village

R12, WEHT Kenny Rodgers Roasters? There was one in Vegas, and then it was suddenly gone.

R31, I think they filed bankruptcy and closed up in the US. According to Wikipedia however, it remains popular in Asia.

The reincarnated Ford Thunderbird.

Mercury-Redstone 1

Trumpcare

Microsoft Bob

What was that giant Apple computer that Bill Gates rolled out a few years ago that was basically an ipad the size of a coffee table?

Rupaul's talk show

The EDSEL.

Miss Dunaway's sitcom.

Revisiting Disney's America: The Theme Park That Never Was

The Salton Sea really was a thing for a while.

Then it died.

Katherine Heigl's movie career.

Minidiscs.

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Zetalounge

3D TV

Google+

Ark Encounter

my DL threads

Biosphere 2. Look it up, young-uns

Lindsay Lohan's comeback

Quadrophonic LPs.

Turbografx hand-held video-gaming. Fabulous technology, way ahead of its time. The hardware was very expensive and the game support lame.

And there was a theme park in NYC, somewhere NE of the city way, way back. I forget the name. Nobody went.

MTM'S COMEBACK

VALERIE HARPER'S COMEBACK

LUCY'S COMEBACK

MCCLAIN STEVENSON SITCOMS

DAWSON'S 401 st LOAD

Pallisades Amusement Park? In NJ over looking NYC. I went there. It was not a theme park though. Hmmm. Yes maybe there was a theme park in the Bronx. Yes Freedom Land.

Steven Tyler's country western career

Ethel Merman's disco career.

Yes, R53--that was it. I knew it had some patriotic ref in the name.

For some reason, my dad had free tickets, so we all went, reluctantly. It was a cold, overcast day and few people were there. But then nobody was there even on nice days. I think the rides weren't running. All I remember is there were actors playing cowboys and two of them had a shoot-out.

Doctor Dolittle franchise

Madonna's concerts

Apple TV+

I totally agree with your Apple TV comment. I got it free for one week. It totally sucks. You have to pay extra for the movies? Are you kidding me?

Apple TV+ definitely. They're giving it away for free but no-one is interested.

Dat tapes

Sega Dreamcast

Hopefully the Wuhan coronavirus can be added to the list soon.

SJP's film career.

Inflatable furniture

Y2K.

Michael Avenatti for President.

paper dresses

Duffy the singer. She came out around the same time as Adele. I thought she sounded better.

Apple TV+ is great. Loving "Visible: Out on Television" right now. "The Morning Show" is fun. As is "Servant." I even like "Snoopy In Space." Apple TV+ will stick around.

Also- I've had a 3D TV for like 10 years with the glasses and all and have yet to try it out. The 3D part that is. I even bought Iron Man 3 and Avatar for 3D and just haven't gotten around to it.

r60- you're paying for access to their original programming not for every movie in the world. The material they offer doesn't suck at all. Even got our Jen a Golden Globe.

And AppleTV+ only costs $5 a month. Totally worth it for the quality of their programming.

Virtual reality never took off the way it was thought it would. Gamers maybe, but not the general population.

Gay blowjobs. Every gay likes giving ‘em but no gays want to get them!

Kris Jenner's talk show . . .

Biden 2020.

Also Biden 2008, Biden 1988.

Chris Hemsworth's career outside of films were he plays Thor. And his brother's 'career' altogether.

R77, what the fuck are you talking about??? Plenty of gay men love getting blow jobs.

Have you ever met another gay man??

The Avenatti/Scaramucci debate show that never materialized

Madame x

Heidi Montag’s album (Actually better than Madame x)

"QWhip"

Muriel must be asleep at the wheel again. There was a time when simply uttering those five letters would get you red tagged as a troll.

Son of Beast roller coaster at King's Island. "New" Coke. Crystal Pepsi. CATS the movie.

The Sobakawa pillo.

Arcosanti city of the future - Hippy utopia society in the desert Circa 1970

It's actually still there decades later, people even live there selling bells to tourist to get money for more constitution.

^Make that "pillow."

Danni Minogue.

The Golden Girls spinoff- THE GOLDEN PALACE.

Units clothing - clothes that you could twist around, pull up, pull down, etc., and make pants, a skirt, a jacket, or whatever.

HD DVD (which lost out to Blu-Ray)

Actually, these things DID launch. They just failed to sustain.

Ultra HD Blu-ray was a total flop too. Actually, you could also say that Blu-Ray in general was some sort of a failure because it never really managed to replace DVD completely the way it was intended. Blu-Ray players and discs were simply too fucking expensive for most people.

R94 That isn't the real story. After Blu-Ray was introduced, people started moving away from discs to streaming. Look at Netflix.

The advantage is that I can watch 4K movies on my TV without buying any new discs or players.

Apple stopped shipping laptops with discs many years ago. They are things of the past.

I have several audio disc formats (DVD-A and SACD) that flopped.

The sad thing is: They sound amazing. 24 bit sound (vs. 16 bit for CDs) with 5-channel separation on many.

Now, music is being streamed and sounds much worst.

R95, I still use DVDs and Blu-Ray but I haven't made the switch to the new 4K discs. I haven't decided yet if I ever will actually. I guess the physical media market can't be all that bad if they have released a new format even after Blu-Ray.

I still like to buy really great movies on Blu-Ray. I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, commentaries and other extras. One of my guilty pleasures is The Greatest Showman. Great Blu-Ray loaded with extras. I do remember laser discs. A friend of mine in high school had a ton of them and I remember being so jealous. I remember them skipping a lot though.

Jennifer Hudson. Although she's much more talented than Beyonce. Maybe she'll make a creep-in now.

Surprised nobody mentioned Sussex Royal

The return of the Middle Class. I wasn't gonna let that shit happen.

whoops - meant djt

The metric system in the USA.

Yep, Carter was going to sign the change over back in the 70s but too many Americans are primitives who claim that things like the metric system and bar codes are the mark of 'The Beast' from Revelations.

"nook" and to a lesser extent "kindle"

Kate Bosworth

My pleasure machine is no gentleman caller. It is always needing recharged, screws tightened, calibrated, scrubbed, and adjusted.

Kathy Griffin’s comeback

R108 She filled Carnegie Hall. She seems to be doing surprisingly well.

Does anyone remember those jars that had the peanut butter and the grape jelly together. They were vertical stripes of peanut butter and grape jelly in one jar. I remember seeing those at the A&P in the 1970's. My mother never bought that. She would buy GIANT glass jars of Ann Page Strawberry Preserves and Ann Page Pineapple Preserves.

"Madame X"-mania

Christa McAuliffe

Flexplay disposable DVD's

Theranos

R112 you're evil, lol.

Have some respect r112

You're not going to list the names of the other six astronauts?

Need Another Seven Astronauts

Palm Pre

R105, the Kindle has been very popular. It hasn't taken over the book market, but it's far past failing to launch.

Madonna's fake ass

Anna Sten

Playgirl's print relaunch with Levi Johnston as its first nude (not-nude) centerfold. All body hair on most models was removed. I'm sure there are plenty of celebrities, reality show contestants and Youtube personalities who would pose full-frontal (and with all of their body hair) as long as Playgirl distributed the images first.

Sirius

R118 Yeah, but all that talk in the early 10s about how it was gonna revolutionize reading yet printed books are still generating more than 3x the revenue of e-books and their popularity has been stagnant for years.

Kindle is here to stay. It sounds like wishful thinking from old trolls who have spent a lifetime collecting books that cant stand that society has changed and along with that they way books are delivered. It like malls vs online shopping. At first everyone said it could never happen, it's a fad, people want to touch the product, bla, bla, bla. Now most people shop online. It dosent mean all brick and mortar will go out of business or that all books will be sold digitally. Kindle is not dead or failed.

Weird fucking ways to pay with your credit card / debit card. Tap, wave, swirl, pray, whatever. Too esoteric, vague, and most importantly rarely effective. Shove the card in the reader or give it to the clerk to swipe like god intended. The asshole (me) behind you will thank you.

R110, Goober Grape

Penelope Ann Miller's career.

While mine thrived.

Gretchen Mol as an A list headliner.

The Apollo 1 mission.

R110 Smucker's Goober Grape stuff (I think they have strawberry now too) didn't fail. It's still around. You remember it in the 70s but I was eating that heavenly goop way into the 80s. I used to take it out of the pantry and eat it from the jar with a spoon. Good times.

R131- When I was a kid in the 1970's, one day I was so desperate (all the cookies were gone) I took a jar of Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise out of the refrigerator and ate a HEAPING tablespoon of it.

Mike Bloomberg

R132, Denis Leary said that when he was a kid, his mother would give him a stick of butter as a snack.

I remember asking my Mom to buy Goober Grape back in the 60s, and it's still around. Someone's buying it.

My partner, who wants to keep all the electronics he ever collected, had laserdiscs. Thankfully, I got him to get rid of his collection to a buyer via Craigslist

Cd singles

R137-I actually loved those, but quickly ditched them when music went digital.

I don't remember who made them but there was a personal computer, before laptops hit the marker, that was small enough to be carried in a backpack and could be set up anywhere.

R139 I had a portable Compaq back in the day. It ran on a 286 processor and had a whole 50 M of storage.

It was thick, weighed a lot, and had a small, monochrome screen.

But when I flew to LA each week, I would take it out to work and everyone who ooh and aah about how small it was, like I'd brought it back from the future.

Lori Petty

R125 Contactless Tap & Pay is pretty much the norm everywhere other than the USA.

R137 what about the cassette singles? I remember those at the Harmony House stores in metro Detroit in the 80s.

Dessert hummus

Pet rock

No way, R145. Pet Rocks launched hard and high in the 1970s. They were iconic.

Speaking of rocks, remember when department stores were selling pieces of the fallen Berlin Wall? I got mine from Hudson's (an old Detroit department store). They came in a drawstring pouch with a certificate of authenticity. I don't know whatever happened to that thing.

R147-that's too bad. That's pretty cool.

R147 They're like pieces of the True Cross, the Berlin Wall would have had to be 20,000 miles long and 400ft high to account for all of the bits sold.

I have a piece of the Berlin Wall-one I pickaxed out myself. I rented the pickaxe for 10 DM from an enterprising Ossi.

Add Sussex Royal to the list. The brand is dead before it even got off the ground. She may be 93, but HMTQ is a tough old bird.

AMC Gremlin

The Jonas Brothers’ Reboot

The Jonas Brothers’ bumbling foray into heterosex

The Merman-Borgnine marriage.

Tim Tebow's heterosexuality.

r37 Why would Bill Gates have had anything to do with an Apple product?

The Peters-Anderson marriage.

"Cats" - the movie

Olestra

Chris Gaines

Field Emission Displays

Basically, a flat CRT with solid-state electron emitters behind the phosphors instead of a magnetically-aimed electron beam with shadow mask or aperture grille. The rich, bright, saturated color & deep blacks of a CRT, without the burn-in of OLED.

Back in 1996, literally *everyone* thought THEY were going to be CRT's successor. Plasma was too prone to burn-in, and LCDs had a seemingly insurmountable problem with dead/stuck subpixels. FED solved the dead/stuck problem by putting MULTIPLE emitters behind each phosphor block... a "dead" emitter just dimmed a subpixel slightly.

R161 Thanks, professor. Now can you help us repair this hole in the boat and get us off the island?

3D TV.

The Macarena

R164, oh the Macarena launched into orbit a lot higher and longer than it should have.

Mary Kay Place; Allison Moyet; Pink Lady; Julie Brown; Liszha's clothing line; Jimmy Osmond; that Sylvester documentary; Lee Radziwell (sp?); Justine Bateman...

Sesnseo coffee makers

3D TV is a good one.

I can't stand 3D movies. The technology is so gimmicky.

WebTV

Apple's eWorld

The California GOP in the 21st century.

R166 Pink Lady! LOL! I remember their horrible show with Jeff Altman.

Apple's Newton

Curved TV's

Be Best

The topless bathing suit.

Jennifer Grey's career post-plastic surgery

3-D movies and television

The biggest problems with 3D TV:

1. You need a BIG screen that totally fills your field of view... 52" just won't cut it.

2. The ability to DO alternating images at 240hz was basically a DLP trick. Until recently, LCD just couldn't quite pull it off... and STILL has a problem with ghost-crosstalk.

3. The Blu-Ray people took so long to get their shit together, 3D-ready DLP TVs were basically gone from the market by the time 3d blu-ray arrived.

4. The Blu-Ray people took advantage of 3d as an excuse to force HDCP 2.2, which rendered all existing AVRs obsolete... and most NEW ones were dysfunctional in some major way for another 2-3 product years after that.

#4 was what killed it for me. I had a 3D-ready TV, and would have spent a hundred bucks for shutter glasses. I would have even spent another $250 on a 3D-capable Blu-Ray player. But there was no way in FUCKING HELL I was going to go toss a 2 year old $400 AVR whose only "deficiency" was that it only supported HDCP 2.0, which ended up deprecated before products implementing it even hit store shelves & buy a new one that STILL had flakiness & random compatibility problems.

Oh, I forgot the grand prize: 3D Blu-Ray's insistence upon HDCP 2.2 *also* made it incompatible with EVERY GODDAMN FUCKING "3D-ready" TV IN EXISTENCE.

3D TV was a nice idea that was ultimately ruined by overbearing copy protection, just like SACD, D-VHS, and DAT.

Spaceforce

The LG Chocolate (was actually a great little phone/device)

Zip disks launched and flopped

The Polaroid Captiva

The Chevy Nova

Grease 3

Amy Klobuchar

President Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Mankini

The Challenger.

What?? Too soon?

Me lmao

Jucero

R185, See R5 &R112

[quote]I even like "Snoopy In Space." Apple TV+ will stick around.

Nah, that’s some booshit. They fuckin with ya. I ain’t never been to space, bro!

R105, how the fuck can you say the Kindle failed to launch?

R156 has a short memory.

R180- The Chevrolet Nova sold quite well in the 1970's.

Sussex Fail

R191 It sold, in America, the same cant be said for Spanish speaking countries.

Bill Gates and the tablet R37 is probably thinking of. It was years ahead of its time, but didn't have anything to do with Apple. I think R37 meant it was an "IPad".

R193, that’s a myth.

Rewarding teachers with trips to space.

This. As well as most As-Seen-On-TV crap.

....

I love you, r198!

Crying with laughter.

Sussex Royals Salad Dressing

R37 was thinking of the Microsoft Surface

That would be a bad example then. The Surface line is way past failed-to-launch. It brings in billions for MS.

Apple TV. I'm sorry I'm not paying five bucks for 6 shows. I don't care if it there is Snoopy in space. And two old hags on a morning show.

No matter WHAT R37 was thinking of, it was clearly NOT an Apple product, so my comment at r156 stands. Care to explain, R190? What's this "short memory" thing?

Your Millennial Friend

Though god knows that tedious gasbag tried.

R204, Bill Gates was instrumental in Apple avoiding declaring bankruptcy.

To save Apple, then known as Apple Computer, from bankruptcy, Bill Gates bought $150 million of non-voting shares in Apple Computer and offered Apple free access to use Microsoft Office, which at the time was the primary software computer users demanded, on Mac PCs. This historic move saved Apple from bankruptcy.

And what does that have to do with a (non-existent) picture of Bill Gates and an Apple product?

It was countering r156’s contention that Gates would have nothing to do with Apple.

An Apple PRODUCT, not Apple.

r206, Gates also made the decision to make Windows NT for PowerPC deliberately non-compatible (without major, major hacking & effort) with Macintosh hardware to prevent Mac owners from ditching MacOS & switching to NT, and made it so expensive to buy a copy of the PPC version, it would have literally been cheaper for a disillusioned Mac owner to just toss it in the trash & buy a PC with Windows installed.

I have a wonderful 55' Samsung 3D TV. It still has an amazing picture going on 7 or so years. I'll admit I fell out of love of the 3D gimmick several years ago. I bought a couple extra glasses in case friends/family came over. The batteries would die from the glasses sitting in a drawer for so long. It was fun watching certain movies in 3D but it was a pain. The TV is still awesome though.

[quote] I have a wonderful 55' Samsung 3D TV.

You must have a HUGE living room. I don’t think even the Dallas Cowboys’ famed field TV is 55 feet!

Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s when woman went to the hairdresser once a week there was always talk about perms failing to set. What was that all about?

Ask the woman, r213.

R213, Did your mother ever give herself a TonI permanent at home? The strong smell would linger for hours.

^Toni

R215 I remember a sharp smell like vinegar, but it was always like the fear of the soufflé falling, that the perm wouldn’t set and the chances of something going horrible wrong always seemed imminent.

I love that Sussex Royal owns this thread. The money those two jokers threw at their branding, website and swag!

The Fyre Festival

Fyre Festival gave new meaning to the term epic fail.

Windows 8.

I remember the Black Friday after Windows 8's launch. CompUSA had a literal BIN of Win8 "upgrade" discs + certificates, and it was an open secret that you could use them to do a virgin installation ANYWAY without "upgrading" anything by just doing the install, turning off the computer when it asked for the previous Windows' disc key, and doing the install again.

Nobody wanted them. By Saturday night, every other doorbuster special was GONE. The bin of Windows 8 discs was still at least 2/3 full.

Windows 8 actively harmed the market for new computers until Lenovo, Dell, and HP teamed up to force Microsoft to allow computers shipped with Windows 8 to be "downgraded" to Windows 7.

The main reason Microsoft finally backed down on Metro(sexual) Explorer was the existential risk presented by KDE... it had been ported to Windows (from Linux) as an Explorer-replacement that worked more like "Windows" than Windows 8 did. If someone major like Adobe had embraced it, Microsoft would have "won" the OS war only to lose control over its desktop environment... no Cortana, no background ads, and no Microsoft branding. Windows would have been reduced to a mere Kernel, like Linux (most of what's associated with "Linux" is actually beyond Torvalds' control).

Think about it. If the only difference between $80-250 "Windows" and free "Linux" were the kernel running behind a KDE desktop environment, Microsoft would have had to practically give away the OS to avoid eventually losing most of its consumer market share to ambivalence.

This is why today, in the ENTERPRISE realm, Microsoft's goal is to make Windows the kernel of choice for nominally "Linux" servers. For consumers, the desktop environment IS the OS. For enterprises, the DE is merely *A* public face of the *REAL* OS. It's also why Microsoft will do anything necessary to keep the Xbox competitive... it's the one Windows-based platform still under Microsoft's total control. Frankly, I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't ported Office (or at least, Outlook & Word) to Xbox (with kekboard & mouse) yet.

THe biggest problem with 3D TVs and movies is I just don't like watching shows in 3D

Funny story about Betamax - you know where it ended up? TV studios - they had big robotic changers that could grab a tape and shove it in drive. This was in the early 1990's.

I have no idea what r221 said. Not a clue.

Yet I still found it a fascinating read.

The problem with Windows 8 was that it forced a tablet interface onto the desktop. People hated that. I'd actually prefer that interface on my Surface Pro instead of Windows 10.

Evel Knievel, multiple times.

This kid sure didn't fail to launch...

Weather Balloon Boy

Is there a diminution of picture quality on 3D TVs when you are not watching 3D content?

r223, Betamax ALSO lived on in "VHS drag". Or more precisely, the patented technologies that MADE Betamax superior to VHS became available *IN* VHS after Sony threw in the towel & made them available for licensing by others.

* Pre-1986, VHS couldn't seamlessly jump into FF or REW from Play... the tape would pause, you'd hear it reconfiguring itself internally for a second or two, THEN it started... and did the same in reverse when you hit play. This is the #1 reason WHY a lot of us BOUGHT Beta VCRs to begin with. VHS was nicknamed "klunk-o-vision" by Beta owners for this exact flaw.

* Hi-Fi stereo. Beta modulated hi-fi stereo into the luminance carrier as FM. VHS (originally) recorded it in a linear strip along the edge of the tape, and split THAT in half for stereo. VHS had a lower linear speed than audiotape, so original stereo VHS was REALLY lo-fi compared to Beta. With Beta, you could even get Dolby Surround to work if you spent a thousand dollars on an external decoder. Original (Star Wars era/late-70s) surround encoded the rear channel into the left & right channels as a 6dB phase matrix & derived the center & low-frequency channels. It was never really promoted as a feature, but "just worked" anyway because it ended up passively encoded into the theater print soundtracks used to master home video tapes.

* "HQ" was a Sony-manufactured chipset that improved color fidelity & sharpened the luminance channel. Once again, always a part of Beta, later available in VHS post-1986.

The point being, there was more to Beta than mere tape size... Beta WAS overwhelmingly superior to VHS until its formerly-exclusive technologies became AVAILABLE in VHS too.

r229, No there isn't.

To support 3D, a LCD TV needs three things:

1. A panel that can be updated at 240fps or better. Maybe, MAYBE 120fps, but it'll look like shit.

2. A video processor that can take frame-sequential, stacked, side-by-side, and diagonal-encoded 3D & unpack it into 240hz frame-sequential form for output to the panel.

2. Some way to signal the 240hz vblank to the glasses so they know when to flip the eye-blocking view.

In theory, ANY TV capable of being directly-driven over HDMI at 120fds could potentially do passable 30fps or 60fps 3D by simply moving all the logic to the Blu-Ray player (including glasses-signaling) & directly feeding the TV 120fps. However, lots of things could go wrong, especially if the TV itself lacks "videogame" mode to disable all TV-side processing.

The big snare is 24fps film-source content. It gets encoded to Blu-Ray as 60fps, but it really repeats alternating frames 2 or 3 times. Better TVs detect this, and repeat each frame 5 times (120hz total). This wouldn't work with frame-sequential 3D, because every frame is different, so the video would lurch & look weird, the way telecined film USED to look on CRTs.

But yeah, if you rip 3D and rig up a RasPi 4 with glasses controller, you can pull off 3d with ANY 120hz-capable TV.

Note that not all TVs advertised as "120hz" or "240hz" can actually TAKE 1080p120 or 720p120 via HDMI, and most of the few that can aren't advertised as such, so it's hit or miss.

Visit blurbusters.com if this intrigues you :-)

Btw, I do believe that 3D *will* make a comeback, though it's return will be kind of like the arrival of Skype vs AT&T Picturephone in the 1970s.

AT&T unveiled it at the World's Fair. It needed a T-1 line, and cost thousands of dollars. Nobody used it. Then Skype quietly added the feature (it wasn't the first, but it was the first to make it painless and easy), and suddenly... videochat was everywhere before anyone even realized it.

Ditto, for 3D TV. Once TVs capable of 1080p120 over HDMI become common, it'll only be a matter of time until someone like Samsung builds glasses-control directly into their player, then EVERYONE will do it within a product cycle or two. Ditto, for Roku/FireTV/AppleTV.

Once 1080p120 support is as common as 1080p60 today, 3D will rapidly become common.

Hillary’s fireworks.

Yeah, 3D is like herpes. It keeps coming back.

I loved Wow potato chips. I used to eat the with a sandwich for lunch every day. The secret was not to be a fat fucking pig & don’t eat a whole bag of them at once.

Quadrophonic records.

All this talk about BetaMax vs. VHS reminds me that I bought a Sony S-VHS machine in the '90s. It had a resolution closer to the upcoming DVD players.

I used it to record LaserDiscs that I rented.

The picture was noticeably better than VHS. But it was $1,000 to buy. And broke several times. I finally threw it out, leaving me with a stack of S-VHS tapes that I could no longer play.

First Lady Melania Trump. Earthbound. Now and forever.

Burger King's "Satisfries". I didn't really get the backlash over these. They just made them thicker (less surface area exposed to the oil), and put a lighter coating on the fries to also absorb less oil. It was nothing gimmicky really. I question the sodium content claims though as I believe they still salt them per batch after they come out of the fryer - and that's totally arbitrary.

However I could also see it as a pain in the ass for workers to have to keep two separate batches of fries, and the longer cooking times of the Satisfries.

All the fireworks at this fireworks factory explosion in China. Seriously, this shit is like apocalyptic.

Grilled chicken at KFC. Remember Oprah gave one away to everyone in the country or something? It tasted ok but the sodium content was through the roof.

[quote]LaserDisc players

They were successful in Japan.

Quibi

Trumpcare, because it never existed.

R221 Every other Windows sucks. I went straight from 7 to 10.

Trump having Covid.