In second-world countries like mine, we didn’t skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:
Betamax VHS
MiniDisc USB flash storage, SD cards
iTunes YouTube and pirated MP3s
HD DVD Blu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for most
Game consoles PC because it’s cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)
If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we’re no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.
In second-world countries like mine, we didn’t skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:
BetamaxVHSMiniDiscUSB flash storage, SD cardsiTunesYouTube and pirated MP3sHD DVDBlu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for mostGame consolesPC because it’s cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we’re no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.