Whatever happened to ESDI? The same thing that happened to EISA and MCA?

Or 5¼" Disks or IDE or BETAMAX or Black & White Television or 1,000s of other ideas (Not all bad ones) they were replaced! Not always for the better at that! ANON

EISA was kind of a OOO SOUNDS NEAT splat idea, MCA was just kind of a crash and burn. I was told that ESDI was simply too expensive or something like that, even though performance was higher than any other drives. IDE? Much still in existence. Betamax? Whatever that is.

IDE? Much still in existence! You try and get a new graphics or modem card in IDE Still many second hand cards yes but PCI & AGP very much the norm now for new cards. Betamax was a contender with VHS for the video market, better product but still lost out! I think thats what (No Name) was getting at. Black & White Television or Monitors? Colour won for the best here at least.

Roy, you are a dumbass. IDE is a controller card cable connecter. You don't get graphics cards in ide you get them in PCI or AGP or ISA. CD-Rom you get in IDE or SCSI. Nothing that goes in a slot (except for the controller card) has nothing to do with IDE. And betamax, ah yes, the betamax, it looks like a vhs-c tape. Seriously bad sound and video. It was a BAD idea. If you ask some one from the seventies of where they saw their first porno then you would probably hear "Betamax."

Bad sound and video? I think not. Betamax is much higher quality then VHS and a variance of that format is still being used by TV stations and pro's today. It's called Beta Pro. The reason it didn't become popular is that Sony held the copyrights to it and wouldn't let anyone else use it. VHS was released as an open format so all the electronic companies used that format. It simply won by popularity. So now who is the dumb ass?

anyway esdi died like mchammer - Beta is not used much anymore as digital video has taken over like DV and 8mm as they are much easier to edit - I used one of these new editing machines about 5 months ago and you choose your best take(s) and make scenes then pick the fades between scenes so its all together then you can do voiceovers and stuff.