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Oh HELL YES, there are; especially the products that are no longer made.

For but one example....DVRS, where you are able to record a show or movie and then make a disc out it. These are no longer made; which stinks! Sure you can buy discs ( though not everything that is shown on T.V. [movies], or they cost a HUGE/OUTRAGEOUS amount of money !) and so we just keep getting these machines repaired.

There are MANY such things, some of which ( cooking implements especially ), MANY OF WHICH ARE 50 YEARS OLD, that you can't get anymore, or what you can get are completely inadequate/useless.

Then there are clothes.....

So much new furniture, even very expensive furniture, is now made in China and is utter CRAP!

Pens....one of my favorite pens, that I got 40+ years ago, used a felt tip refill, but was was made of a Bakelite substance, overlaid with filagree sterling silver. They stopped making the refills, rendering the pen case useless.

China.....about 42 years ago, I bought a lovely set of chins, from England. The company is still in business, bit the product is a cheaper quality and the pattern is also done badly.

Another set of china, also from England is still made, but is now made in China and Indonesia and is LOUSY and more expensive.

Now...do you wanna talk about washing machines and toilets? Nether of the ones made today, holds a candle to what I bought 27 years ago! And all of MY products are still working as though they were new; whereas people I know ( especially re washing machines and I'm talking about the TOP OF THE LINE, BY THE BEST MANUFACTURERS! ) STINK in comparison.

I can go on, but since you are so enamored of today's CRAPPY STUFF, that you find right up your alley, I'll say it again....EACH TO HIS OWN! ;^)

I'll say it again....EACH TO HIS OWN!

Thank you for the permission.

For but one example....DVRS, where you are able to record a show or movie and then make a disc out it.

From any iPhone or iPad or Computer, but I won't burn a DVD I will save it as a file on a hard drive and if I need a copy I will put it on an SD card or thumb drive. Or just share it on my private network.

DVRS, where you are able to record a show or movie and then make a disc out it.

I have a Tivo that records 6 channels at once, which lets me do that, but I also have an item called EyeTV that lets me record from the cable box and has the best editing software for amateurs on the market. Beside I don't know anyone that owns a Video Tape recorder or DVD player. Some have Blue Rays but only because they have other software built in. I actually do Have a DVD drive in one of my computers.
I can see you have a fondness for the old stuff of the past but the only reason you think most of it is superior is you don't know what the new stuff does.

Now...do you wanna talk about washing machines and toilets? Nether of the ones made today, holds a candle to what I bought 27 years ago!

Washing machines I can agree with but toilets are a 100 times better than the ones we had when I was kid, they were technology that hadn't changed in over a 100 years, well I changed about 7 years ago and can tell you that my toilet flushes first time every time and almost silently, try one and you may agree.
When is the last time you had a TV or radio break well modern one anyway. I haven't had one break for years, but every 711 of Get and Go used to have tube testers to check out your OZ 4 on Saturday night because your TV went of during wrestling.

I remember when stainless razor blade came out, one of my uncles that stropped his old Gillette blades claimed his was better, one of his friends walked back home and brought him his razor with a used Stainless blade to try. Well the rest is history.

I am trying to keep this calm and informative but I am 78 years old and have seen a lot of stuff come and go, almost all of what went was replaced by some thing better. In some cases some thing were replaced by cheaper but not better products but they were good enough.

Betamax was a superior product to VSH tape but VHS tape was good enough and cheaper. Do you remember when you could rent movie on a large record and play it on a rented player? By the way you get a better quality picture over the air than you do cable unless your cable company is providing 4k broadcast and you have a 4k TV.

The reason you have to have higher resolution is that 720x480 DVD video doesn't look so good blown up to 70 inch which is beginning to be a minimum TV in most homes. Some of us remember 6 inch screens, I prefer 70 over that.

Not trying to make enemies here just new friends to share opinions with.