Every now and then I see something and I think, “Wow! That would be really cool/helpful/handy”. The thing is I know it won’t, I know it’s going to disappoint me but I still buy it (perhaps I like being disappointed?!). At the end of the day if you want to be an early adopter you’re going to get shafted, either the product won’t work, will break quickly or be almost instantaneously superseded by a newer model or rival brand/format.

My examples would include the Archos JBMM20; a few weeks after I bought it a newer version with a better chip and higher res support was released for the same price. A few months after that a new model was released with a bigger screen and better interface by which time mine was royally screwed by the ever more bug-ridden firmware “upgrades”. And more recently the Action Replay Max Evo For PS2 that was supposed to play DivX and mp3 on the PS2. Which of course it didn’t.

One day I’ll learn…

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