I've always been fascinated by LaserDisc technology. Long before I'd ever seen video played from a disc, and not long after I'd heard my first album on CD, I had the opportunity to watch movies on LD.
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When you think of the home video format of choice in decades past, what comes to mind first? For many, it's the bulky, plastic VHS tapes that dominated video rental store shelves for years. VHS tapes ...
Leonard Nimoy wasn’t only Spock on Star Trek. He was a celebrated stage actor and director of many successful films like Three Men and a Baby. But he would also willingly cash in on his good name as a ...
Before DVDs and streaming, there was the LaserDisc. We take a trip down memory lane to revisit a format that was supposed to be the future of home movies. To revisit the format that was, I went to the ...
Back before DVDs, before Blu-ray, before MP3s, and before CDs, there were Laserdiscs. First released way back in 1978, the Laserdisc media format offered high-quality video and laid the foundation for ...
In the many years before convincing three-dimensional graphics were possible, video game developers had to get creative to realize their vision. When it came to racing games, that creativity typically ...
They say you can't put a price on happiness, but we bet the Star Wars fan(s) who bought this LaserDisc off eBay didn't mind paying $699 for 30 minutes of bliss. After all, it contains 50 raw and ...
Buyers of a rare LaserDisc used to demonstrate an 80s-vintage film editing system have found it full of raw footage from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, graciously posting clips to a ...
The Magnavox Magnavision Model 8000 DiscoVision Videodisc Player was a “record player that produces beautiful sound and pictures” through your TV. Released in 1978, Magnavision 8000 was the first ...
Sega Released Only Two Games On This Forgotten Arcade Cabinet, And They Were Awesome While these innovations were popular at the time, LaserDisc games faded into obscurity and are now gone. There are ...