You can start a car on Ni-Cads, just you try that on your eneloops, it’s just a matter of what your using your batteries for. Bragging that my batteries can do 5A is great, but just what are you using them for that and, more importantly, how long do they last at that drain. I bet the capacity will not be the same at 5A than 5mA or 500mA… If you have an item that only uses a drain current of 50mA, perhaps some of these other batteries will show greater capacity at this rate (this is expected behaviour).
I agree that in high drain devices, like cameras, the batteries you mention are King but these may be an expensive luxury for low drain devices.
I have some of those and with a 150 mah discharge it lasted around 3 hours. Eneloops can do 10 amp discharges with a very good capacity. (Around 1500 mah) Also nicads aren't LSD.
To be fair to eneloop competitors, the batteries tested in this thread are not a comparison to any decent NiMH. This thread is not saying buy eneloops!
Before you think that eneloops are the only cells worth buying you really need to try the following:
I've driven hundreds of other batteries over the last 20+ years ..I was trying to show some old sanyos I bought probably 20 years ago . 1200mah nimh AA dark green rebadged sanyo white tops for a company named bt&t controls I bought about 20 AA's and the next year at this electronics show all that could be had were sort of a lime green 1300mah cell I bought 50 of them AA and AAA's and everyone of those are dead , every energizer / rayovac kodak I've bought since then are all dead time and time again it's been sanyos that are still kicking .Some of these batteries don't last a year .Buying anything but eneloops or rebadged sanyos is just wasting your money . duraloops on sale were less than a buck .Thats not rolls royce prices . They are always on sale and worth stocking up on.