Well, VHS only lost to its smaller counterpart. Which was about the same price when they first appeared. (and then there was of course the small period between vhs and dvd where you could watch movies on the Phillips CD-I)
@abergethirty There's still a huge advantage an LD had over VHS back then, even with a standard definition TV. 425 lines of resolution vs 240 lines of resolutio for VHS is noticeable on a standard def TV. So is the increased color resolution, 120 lines of color vs 30 lines color for VHS.
Now if you had a 13" SDTV you might not notice, but 27" or bigger and the difference is apparent!
don't laugh the video Quality was pure shit on the first DVD released in 1996 compare to the awesome quality of existing LD, DVD became acceptable when they relased after the year 2000 with better bitrate.
There were places that rented Laserdiscs, it just depended on where you lived if they were prevalent or not. Where I lived there were 4 places within 15 miles to rent Laserdiscs.
I sure as hell raided those places when they decided to liquidate their LD inventory!
These things are coming back again! Movies like scream on dvd and blu-ray are cut versions of the film. The laser disc version is uncut. Movie companies are hacking new releases of older films
@LiouTao Sorry, i meant more people are wanting them because movies were uncut. movie company's putting out dvd and even blu-ray are editing the original movies for some reason
@junkyturd No, people want it purely for the Analog quality of the LD, however it's just not feasible. More and more movies are becoming digitally rendered, making it less and less sense to make LDs. Also, LDs are limited by its size, 60 minutes per side, added that the discs are bloody expensive, there is little incentive to buy or make the discs.
Wow, it amazing that I had almost all these formats. VHS, Laser Disk, DVD, Blu Ray. Pretty soon it will all be online screaming. R.I.P. physical media! :(…
I have a working laser disc player and like, what, 300 laser discs? They are out of production but they add a lot of charm to my film collection. I just hope my laser disc player doesn't die and makes me just keep 300 movies just laying around lol
VCR's were affordable enough that you could easily get one by 1992 to go with your LD player. My Dad had 2 VCR's back then. One for his bedroom and one for the living room. If you like the movie after renting the tape then you could always go buy the disk. Shit by 1992 if your movie was under 2 hours you would never even have to flip the disk if you got a rotating head reader model.
@tk4227 I remember back in the day there was a blockbuster everywhere and I would always say they will be around forever, now the only video stores you see are the small chain joints at mini-malls and so on. The only reason these stores still thrive is because of the adult section.
@exposed97 actually LaserDisc were well accepted in japan and some other parts of asia. It even outsell VCR at some point. People in Europe and USA did not accept LD. In my country nobody knew LD existed lol.
it took almost 15 years for prices of players drop to $500? its a shame, because in '92 LD was basically already old technology. Something similar happened to DVD (ok, prices dropped a little bit faster and it was actually commonly used in the last few years, but you get my point)
@FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 you think Laserdisc is superior to Blu-Ray? lolol, that made my day :). Laserdisc players were far more prone to glitches and the resolution doesn't even come close to Blu-Ray, not by a mile
i remember back then in mid 80's and 90's how cool it was to have a laserdisc, but when the first digital movie on MPEG 1 and the first DVD in MPEG 2 was released i must agree that the disc was too big and unconvenient to used XD
but after all the first 5.1 surround sound and interactive video and first Karaoke was made with that technologie so respect for that.
One thing I noticed is that the woman in the clip pushes her laserdisc player drawer closed (doesn't she know that wears the tray motor and gears if you push the tray into the player). If that lady can't treat her player right, she shouldn't have a laserdisc player at all. The manuals say not to push the tray into the player, and to press the close buttons on the players front panel or remote.
I have one sitting around my house somewhere. They were good for karaoke back in the day. I just want to smash it because of the money my dad spent on it lol.
I only hated them because you couldn't record your own LD. If you wanted to record your own LD than you needed a factory Pioneer VDR-V1000 laser recorder and you could only get one by stealing one from the studio. And even after you would get one you would still be stuck because no blank laserdiscs were for sale. They would of built one i mean it took a while to create a dvd recorder for home use but the technology was discontinued and i have feeling they knew this wouldn't fit right from start.
yea, these things were horribly expensive. I remember seeing them in Sun TV with the projection big screens -- it was great, but we didn't even have a VCR until probably 1992 -- Whatever year "The Mask" was available for rental, because that was the first movie I watched on the VCR.
In school we had a laserdisc player on a rack with a tv and an Encarta disc. So instead of going down to the library and messing with the card catalogue, we used the laserdisc... boy it was slow though!!!
I only heard of laserdiscs ever because a friend of mine in high school told me about her Star Wars laserdisc. I had never ever seen one, so I watched this because a website I was just on mentioned them.
I only heard of laserdiscs ever because a friend of mine in high school told me about her Star Wars laserdisc. I had never ever seen one, so I watched this because a website I was just on mentioned them.
I wouldn't go so far to say the past decade, but certainly the last couple years. I think it's mainly due to the increase in popularity of MP3s and other portable media rather than the actual sound quality. People still want an actual physical product instead of a CD case or digital file. The only other advantage I can think of is that vinyl helps us escape from the overly loud and compressed mastering since 1995 which has only gotten worse in the era of the iPod/iTunes.
@truefaith00 That's very true. I will admit, while thinking about it I would probably say the past 5 years LP interest has spiked. I myself hate buying digitally, so I always buy CDs, but as you said mastering has gotten worse. Companies working on the CD don't understand there's a difference between mastering, and making a CD loud. LPs deliver a wonderful sound, and I believe the LPs I own sound just as good, if not better than their CD counterparts.
Laser disc is much improvement than VHS just that the disc's are expensive.
The overhand thou blu-rays are much improved over DVD',s with disc's costing not much more than a DVD plus you can get some players quite cheap theese days including under $100 if you look hard enough
Plus Blu-ray is catching on.
Buying/renting blu-ray is much easier than handling all the timeout errors from downloading HD video via ADSL internet conection.
someone could create this idea ,DSDvideo laser disc , record it blu-ray laser, or it the new technology Holographic Versatile Disc "HVD" , Direct Stream Digital Video, uncompress video and audio , original master
someone could create this idea ,DSDvideo laser disc , record it blu-ray laser, or it the new technology Holographic Versatile Disc "HVD" , Direct Stream Digital Video, uncompress video and audio , original master
Aint it great how they did away with vhs . The same with records they tried this but lost . The same with laserdisc last disc made 2002 , in the USA . There going to try the same thing with dvd , like HD-DVD .
Nice video clip from the past . I quess he was right vhs did not replace laserdisc . I was phased out in the end . I guess it will never make a comeback like vinyl did . It would be nice to see new video from hollywood still release there movies on laserdisc . they wont do that its only dollars and cents to them only .
@ducklandwikeno LD Master was made directly from the film. So it was pure analog to analog transfer. LD is as close as watching real film on a projector. Now all movies are digitally recorded, edited and mastered. So there is no reason transferring them back to analog format. They will never be analog. It's the same for LP. If you use digital processing then transferring it back to LP from a computer is a pure onanism. Analog should stay with analog and digital with digital.
And nobody mentioned that the movie is contanied on a collection of a half dozen different discs? Which in my opinion is the biggest drawback, and an overall bullshit. Not to mention how hard i laughed when i first saw that mother fucking big disc.
@AMYuntold So which movie is on "a half dozen different discs"? I have plenty of movies on Laserdisc and the vast majority are on a single disc. Specific titles please.
i just got my sony mdp-440 and it was a disaster, it does not open it does not close, it plays when it will and it will when it will not, never again on LD it just cause me so much stress, and madonna and cyndi lauper are both big bitches, they did not release their blond ambition tour and cyndi lauper live in paris on dvd that is why i came up in such a bullshit situation...i bought it in ebay for 86 Euro. what a waste of money.
I remember when these things were becoming all the rage, especially since my College had quite a few of these, for educational LaserDiscs. Physics labs had plenty of those.
Then I saw something called the "DVD" almost 2 years later.
Apart from the size, how are DVD's any different? They both have lasers, they're both shiny, it just seems to be the size. Now obviously DVD's are much more advanced, but what did these do differently?
@moviesunrated they were different how the players read them i dont know exactly how but i think they got read by something similar to tape heads and floppy disk heads
@charlesskf Dumbnuts? It was an analog format, it's not like some file was stored on it. I still think that If you keep a laserdisc of Spaceballs in its case with out ever playing it or touching it for a thousand years, the video wouldn't be the same quality as it was when it was manufactured, unlike a DVD or a Blu-Ray where the laser reads a file with the video on it in contrast with a laserdisc which is just analog video and analog or digital audio on a disc. Analog doesn't last for ever .
@cinemastupid just because somethings analog doesnt mean its going to deteriorate, laserdisc is read by a laser too, so nothing ever comes in contact with the disks, and those laserdiscs had a layer of protective sealent on them too, just like dvds, so theres no reason to beleive they would ever deteriorate. god, just because its analog doesnt mean its crap, its actually better that way cuz u dont get those damn pixelation glitches
@charlesskf listen, if it's an analog format, if it's damaged it will damage the video or audio. You can break a dvd from being read, but you can never damage the quality or audio stored in that file by just playing it 500 times.
@cinemastupid How do you damage it aside from scratching the disc? Which would also affect a digital DVD?
The reason why people say formats like LPs and tape can be degraded is not because they are an analog medium per se. It's because they are a contact medium. Meaning the readable surface are contacted to be read. Laserdiscs utilize no contact to read the medium.
MiniDV is a digital format, but its on tape and thus degraded when you play it. Unlike a Laserdisc or DVD. Boggling isn't it?
@skye26er An LD is 12 inches, the radius of which would be 6 inches. Are you saying your dick is so much less than six inches that if it was six inches you would be set?
I had one hooked up to my sony tv back in the early 1980's and the picture was awesome with most of the discs I played on it. There were a couple of stores nearby that rented them too. The discs seem to die out and then gradually started to come back. I remember the music videos...the one with "the Cars" was totally awesome, the sound and picture both were unreal. I wish I had that one but it was a rental and I returned it.
@legomaniacman There actually was a console that used Laserdiscs--called the Laseractive. It was a Laserdisc player that you could plug in a Sega Genesis unit or Turbo Grafx unit which would not only let you play the CD-ROM games from those companies, but also LD-ROM games made specifically for the Laseractive. It failed miserably of course!
This is the most retarded news report I have ever seen..... What a bunch of rubbish.
Fast forward to 2010, does your average blu-ray player record? How about DVD, does an average home DVD player record? Things really aren't that much different today, with the only difference being the ease of recording the newer formats if you happen to own a PC.
It's also a well known fact that laserdisc can come close to DVD with the proper hardware, and almost always kicks its ass in the audio department.
@otakujhp maybe its me but it just seems you find older stuff on older formats if you know what I mean
Most new movies are not on laserdisc so if you try and find laserdiscs you will instead find many old classic good movies you would never find with dvd because when you look for dvds its mostly the newer movies that pops out everywhere
Same with LP you just find the old good bands you never would think of when you buy cds
The artwork on LD is better and why you should buy and not download
@akumie Personaly I dont care that you need to turn LD many times so long the format discs (cd, ld, video, dvd...) can last 20+ years without buying new ones
LD has the rotting, dvds has scratches that makes the dvd stop all together, video last less then 20 years...
Nothing is perfect but like I said the artwork and better chance to find the old classic good movies is a good enought reason to own laserdisc players
bigasssuperstar, could you please delete MetallicBill's comments, he's threatening the other commenter's with his freakish obsession. Seriously, block him too, I am really freaked out by him...
@bigasssuperstar lol, please don't tell me you took me seriously, I was just get annoyed by every single time I comment on this video he replies, and he also replies to everyone else.
The only REAL flaw outside of cleanroom production being PRIORITY from the instant the first discs were pressed, is that LaserDisc could only really benefit from a proper stereo and display, it's only part of the Home Entertainment system. So, yes, you have to invest in a package of sorts, but at the time LD was made available, the video was VERY lackluster and just not on any available even par with LD capability
thank god they went obsolete. smaller = better. not the other way around. btw they were expensive. i remember Jurassic Park used to cost $100 when it first came out!
@Conduit13C Video tape was MORE expensive, I should know, I was buying and shopping for content before DVD, and even bare bone DVDs were overtly expensive. I don't know how anyone can not see this, the price to renters of tapes was $100 or more. You only paid $100 or more on special edition Laserdiscs, they were $20 to $45 USD range most often
Also, heres another comment that most likely will be thumbed up about this guy being stupid, I'm pretty sure people could be satisfied with both laserdisc and vhs, laserdisc for movies, and vhs for recording, if you could afford both. Most people in these times have something to record with (DVR) and something to watch movies on (DVD/BD player) I'm pretty sure this guy was being paid by JVC, LOL
@cinemastupid What you say seems half right to me, Consider the most important fact, Laserdisc was an actual usable ENTITY since 1973. The date being 1979 of the reintroduction had nothing to do so much with it being a flawed technology then those behind it messing up every possible way of getting it properly to market. Pioneer made it what it needed to be in a very short time frame, and even then, more then a decade without DVD!!
Best media and by far better then VHS, are they kidding!!?? I still use LDs. The report is misleading for Prosumers in the know...Pioneer made a recording LD from what I recall, and the medium could have supported HiDef advances, had the 5 inch failed to do so. Dolby Digital came out first on LD via RF supported AC-3
@MetallicBill Sounds like I was saying that it's NOT better then VHS, I wrote that confusingly I admit. I feel the way THEY said it was not correct. That it is better then the tapes, look at the problem at the beginning of this one for example ^^!
LMAO
TheMichael408 1 week ago
is this surely from 1992? it should be earlier... I mean, LaserDisc were already quite known since some years back
wlacaffetteria 1 week ago
Well, VHS only lost to its smaller counterpart. Which was about the same price when they first appeared. (and then there was of course the small period between vhs and dvd where you could watch movies on the Phillips CD-I)
keniakittykat 3 weeks ago
20 years later "where the hell can I buy a VCR?!!"
C0LL1N 1 month ago
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Cloud1613 1 month ago
wow looks nice, but i think i'll stick to my vcr for now, we'll see how this turns out in the future, looks promising tho!
yocbjone 1 month ago
My family has tons of lasersiscs
lschlachter1 1 month ago
jezzus look at the size of that thing, no wonder they call it a lazily disk, it seriously needs 2 workout:)
88119966 1 month ago
LaserDisc was a piece of crap even if it did have better quality than VHS
deepcovergecko 1 month ago
I'd pay 499$+ for a pocket version.
edcorners 1 month ago
There was no real advantage to owning one, other than better audio, because TV's were still Standard Def.
abergethirty 2 months ago
@abergethirty There's still a huge advantage an LD had over VHS back then, even with a standard definition TV. 425 lines of resolution vs 240 lines of resolutio for VHS is noticeable on a standard def TV. So is the increased color resolution, 120 lines of color vs 30 lines color for VHS.
Now if you had a 13" SDTV you might not notice, but 27" or bigger and the difference is apparent!
laserdiscphan 2 months ago 2
IThat would give you a thumb strain for sure!
stupidintellect90 3 months ago
i remeber when laserdisc came out and even then I thought the disc was just too big.
hellonpluto 3 months ago
video about LaserDisc on a VHS... what is this
miniminor1 3 months ago
don't laugh the video Quality was pure shit on the first DVD released in 1996 compare to the awesome quality of existing LD, DVD became acceptable when they relased after the year 2000 with better bitrate.
Meteotrance 3 months ago
I lost it when I saw how big that disk was.
InTenSecondsFlat 3 months ago
@0:46
that looks like Aaron Rodgers
7600p36 3 months ago
There were places that rented Laserdiscs, it just depended on where you lived if they were prevalent or not. Where I lived there were 4 places within 15 miles to rent Laserdiscs.
I sure as hell raided those places when they decided to liquidate their LD inventory!
laserdiscphan 3 months ago
@laserdiscphan
Laser-Land was one. I still have two LD players and about 80 disks. (When Media Play folded, they were selling the disks for a song).
Rades48 3 months ago
Laserdisc = analog bluray?
PRODVDi 3 months ago
These things are coming back again! Movies like scream on dvd and blu-ray are cut versions of the film. The laser disc version is uncut. Movie companies are hacking new releases of older films
junkyturd 3 months ago
@junkyturd They're not coming back. The last bastion of LD in Japan stopped producing LDs and making LD players a few years back.
LiouTao 3 months ago
@LiouTao Sorry, i meant more people are wanting them because movies were uncut. movie company's putting out dvd and even blu-ray are editing the original movies for some reason
junkyturd 3 months ago
@junkyturd No, people want it purely for the Analog quality of the LD, however it's just not feasible. More and more movies are becoming digitally rendered, making it less and less sense to make LDs. Also, LDs are limited by its size, 60 minutes per side, added that the discs are bloody expensive, there is little incentive to buy or make the discs.
LiouTao 3 months ago
AND they can be used as Dinner Plates
hardyboyzrko 3 months ago
Wow, it amazing that I had almost all these formats. VHS, Laser Disk, DVD, Blu Ray. Pretty soon it will all be online screaming. R.I.P. physical media! :(…
Villesanti 4 months ago in playlist vcr history
I have a working laser disc player and like, what, 300 laser discs? They are out of production but they add a lot of charm to my film collection. I just hope my laser disc player doesn't die and makes me just keep 300 movies just laying around lol
benpetrofsky 4 months ago
I always wondered as a kid why the video store rented movie soundtracks on vinyl. Now I realize those were laserdisc.
onexero1 4 months ago 3
Nothing like watching video about laserdiscs via VHS.
WebVManReturns 4 months ago
I want to see PS3 BluRay disks that size. Then you can put every Metal Gear Solid game ever made on one disk.
WebVManReturns 4 months ago
Thumbs up if you laughed too when you see the size of the cd xD
MrRambo4 4 months ago 33
King Kongs DVD
WYTwrestling 4 months ago
CAROL VORDERMAN MEMORY LOSS RAPE ESPIONAGE SECRETS & TERROR
whotaughtyou 5 months ago
These people must have very tiny hands, they make those DVD's look huge.
heyyy19 5 months ago
movies on a disc? well that will never fly. VCR's forever!
henkman00 5 months ago
VCR's were affordable enough that you could easily get one by 1992 to go with your LD player. My Dad had 2 VCR's back then. One for his bedroom and one for the living room. If you like the movie after renting the tape then you could always go buy the disk. Shit by 1992 if your movie was under 2 hours you would never even have to flip the disk if you got a rotating head reader model.
Luigi84289 5 months ago
Well, at least I have my Sony Walkman cassette player.
spencereng 5 months ago
vcr?
ZakX33 5 months ago
1:18 good old times :) when it was actually a drawback, when you had to buy a movie, kinda miss that
Guanosoft 5 months ago
Ld perdate CDs
seangx87 6 months ago
laserdiscs were pure analog video. No digital compression bullshit making the picture all pixelated. Pure raw NTSC video.
HirachieOfSociety 6 months ago 19
@HirachieOfSociety damn straight!
NecroHunter93 3 months ago
@HirachieOfSociety Preach!
ghettochildusa 2 months ago
Just watched THE PERFECT WEAPON on LD (still waiting for a DVD release, let alone Blu-Ray)
chevchelios72 6 months ago
I just love the clear picture on that 22" wood paneled classic...doesnt get clearer than that...
mjugler 6 months ago
XXL DVD? XD
DarKF1093 7 months ago
What the fuck, you could use that thing as a shield.
TheHerpderpExpress 7 months ago
Still have my laserdisc player & actually used it the other day. I have stuff on LD that has never been released on DVD yet, never mind Blu-ray.
vozpit 7 months ago
VCRs were able to TiVo.... oh the memories.
thegreatcheesedemon 7 months ago
wow, i remember the days of video stores
tk4227 7 months ago
@tk4227 I remember back in the day there was a blockbuster everywhere and I would always say they will be around forever, now the only video stores you see are the small chain joints at mini-malls and so on. The only reason these stores still thrive is because of the adult section.
718JLP 7 months ago 3
@718JLP all thanx to netflix.
Evin0688 6 months ago
Yep, Carol doesn't give a fuck either way.
Dustbin1149 7 months ago
Holy shit, those discs are huge.
ChinpokoMaster7 7 months ago
i rememba these back in the 90's .. whoever made them probably croaked when the dvd came out
dunngar 7 months ago 2
@exposed97 actually LaserDisc were well accepted in japan and some other parts of asia. It even outsell VCR at some point. People in Europe and USA did not accept LD. In my country nobody knew LD existed lol.
EddieTheBigMonster 8 months ago
it took almost 15 years for prices of players drop to $500? its a shame, because in '92 LD was basically already old technology. Something similar happened to DVD (ok, prices dropped a little bit faster and it was actually commonly used in the last few years, but you get my point)
EddieTheBigMonster 8 months ago
Holy mother of fuck, those things are huge.
CartoonNetworkIsGay 9 months ago
because like the hybrid blu ray player enthusiasts were buying
them in blind panic and the great thing about them is that the players
still play badly marked discs without gliching and still preserved
the picture and sound quality by a special laser beam light source
thats why laserdiscs are so vastly superior than dvd and blu rays
together
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 9 months ago
@FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 you think Laserdisc is superior to Blu-Ray? lolol, that made my day :). Laserdisc players were far more prone to glitches and the resolution doesn't even come close to Blu-Ray, not by a mile
1wibble2 8 months ago
Wow what a huge ass dvd!
kay486 9 months ago
What a dousche...
KaxiLaxi 9 months ago
lmao
deathtotheism 9 months ago
Whoa, that was a big ass CD! I was born in 86', but I've never seen a laser disc. That shit was huge.
LogicLyfe 9 months ago
@LogicLyfe
actually the first digitalised disc was the ced video disc
was made in the 70's but in the earlier 80's the laserdisc were
born and then in the earlier 90's followed by the viedo cd where you
got the film on two cds upto the mid 90's the dvd followed and in 2007
the bluray and hd dvds came out also the umd where you can get an entire film
on to one tiny disc .
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 9 months ago
@FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0
the CED Video Disk wasn't "digitalised" -- it was basically a phonograph system -- it used a needle and 'grooves' for playback.
trippyay 8 months ago
i remember back then in mid 80's and 90's how cool it was to have a laserdisc, but when the first digital movie on MPEG 1 and the first DVD in MPEG 2 was released i must agree that the disc was too big and unconvenient to used XD
but after all the first 5.1 surround sound and interactive video and first Karaoke was made with that technologie so respect for that.
Meteotrance 10 months ago
LOL when he said "But there's one obvious drawback..." and I thought "DUH, THE SIZE?!" hahahaha but no.
iamchris1990yall 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
lol, could you imagine...
92BMW318is 10 months ago
One thing I noticed is that the woman in the clip pushes her laserdisc player drawer closed (doesn't she know that wears the tray motor and gears if you push the tray into the player). If that lady can't treat her player right, she shouldn't have a laserdisc player at all. The manuals say not to push the tray into the player, and to press the close buttons on the players front panel or remote.
MultiKagemusha 10 months ago
I have one sitting around my house somewhere. They were good for karaoke back in the day. I just want to smash it because of the money my dad spent on it lol.
thearaban 10 months ago
Big Disc, Small Memory Space!
captfalcon7 10 months ago
Are those discs or midget shields?
z3pp3lin15 10 months ago 3
Give it 10 or 20 years, they'll be laughing at what we thought was really cool in 2011.
videotimesss1 10 months ago
HOLY SHIT! LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE DISKS!
puppymolly123 11 months ago
dumb asses
kingfanboi 11 months ago
0:38 Zach Braff!
johnsson58 11 months ago
I only hated them because you couldn't record your own LD. If you wanted to record your own LD than you needed a factory Pioneer VDR-V1000 laser recorder and you could only get one by stealing one from the studio. And even after you would get one you would still be stuck because no blank laserdiscs were for sale. They would of built one i mean it took a while to create a dvd recorder for home use but the technology was discontinued and i have feeling they knew this wouldn't fit right from start.
FooNado 11 months ago
yea, these things were horribly expensive. I remember seeing them in Sun TV with the projection big screens -- it was great, but we didn't even have a VCR until probably 1992 -- Whatever year "The Mask" was available for rental, because that was the first movie I watched on the VCR.
In school we had a laserdisc player on a rack with a tv and an Encarta disc. So instead of going down to the library and messing with the card catalogue, we used the laserdisc... boy it was slow though!!!
japierce15 11 months ago
ive never heard of laserdisc before even though i was already born at that time
TheGsGClan 11 months ago
could you shift in chapters as with dvd and blu-ray
navylaks2 11 months ago
@navylaks2 yes
lethianrock 11 months ago
to chcu ,dvd jsou na hovno není nad to mit filmy pěkně poskladany jako gramodesky
luxusni technologie už před 30roky s tím přišli
martin4lyn 11 months ago
saw one of these at the thrift store
had no effin idea what it was...
stardustpixel1 11 months ago
A sharper picture... on your low-res TV
laserstun 11 months ago 3
I can't believe I was alive when this was actually on TV
IainDonnell 11 months ago
I only heard of laserdiscs ever because a friend of mine in high school told me about her Star Wars laserdisc. I had never ever seen one, so I watched this because a website I was just on mentioned them.
BologneyT 11 months ago
I only heard of laserdiscs ever because a friend of mine in high school told me about her Star Wars laserdisc. I had never ever seen one, so I watched this because a website I was just on mentioned them.
BologneyT 11 months ago
Still holding out that Betamax will make a comeback.
CoonDawgity 1 year ago
I've got the same LD-player as the one at 0:13, jawusume :3
Agroulinggrwaler1999 1 year ago
Strong Bad is right, everything is better on LaserDisc.
JimmySand9 1 year ago
if you want to watch a movie, you have to buy it ! i really didnt understand that shit,
crps3ESA 1 year ago
at a local memorabilia store had a laserdisc preview room
that i went there to watch ghostbusters laserdisc it was awsome
too bad laserdisc died a short death.
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 1 year ago
I don't think they made it big enough
MCPOCHRIS021 1 year ago 2
dude, I thought the laserdisc was an urban legend
giupieri 1 year ago 21
@giupieri No, lots of people have them, the 5.1 dolby digital was awesome watching movies like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
freespeachrulez 4 months ago
I miss audio cassettes, beta/vhs tapes, atari, and girls on 80's outfits.
elpiratadeflorida 1 year ago 2
CLICK TO1:53 carol dosn't give a sh*t lol!
atomicnortherner 1 year ago 11
What the CD did to the LP? The LP has been making a comeback for the past decade, lmao.
MrMario2011 1 year ago
@MrMario2011
I wouldn't go so far to say the past decade, but certainly the last couple years. I think it's mainly due to the increase in popularity of MP3s and other portable media rather than the actual sound quality. People still want an actual physical product instead of a CD case or digital file. The only other advantage I can think of is that vinyl helps us escape from the overly loud and compressed mastering since 1995 which has only gotten worse in the era of the iPod/iTunes.
truefaith00 1 year ago
@truefaith00 That's very true. I will admit, while thinking about it I would probably say the past 5 years LP interest has spiked. I myself hate buying digitally, so I always buy CDs, but as you said mastering has gotten worse. Companies working on the CD don't understand there's a difference between mastering, and making a CD loud. LPs deliver a wonderful sound, and I believe the LPs I own sound just as good, if not better than their CD counterparts.
MrMario2011 1 year ago
@MrMario2011
dude the lp never went away because hmv has being
stocking them for years now according to my knowledge
anyway .
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 1 year ago
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The fuk! You have to BUY the movie if you want to see it!? That makes no sense! 0.0
ZombieHorror666 1 year ago
the only things DVDs have on these (not talkin about blue rays) is they can hold more. laserdiscs are badass.
thatonetacobellguy 1 year ago
This is ridiculous, the thought of discs replacing VHS tapes is absolutely ridiculous
TheEmoticonMaster 1 year ago
pfff beta all the way!!!
rbmsig04 1 year ago
Reminds me of Blu-Ray.
baggedyman 1 year ago
@baggedyman yeah but blu-ray doesnt fail , laserdiscs did.
druha10304 1 year ago
@baggedyman How can it reminds you of Blu-ray.
Laser disc is much improvement than VHS just that the disc's are expensive.
The overhand thou blu-rays are much improved over DVD',s with disc's costing not much more than a DVD plus you can get some players quite cheap theese days including under $100 if you look hard enough
Plus Blu-ray is catching on.
Buying/renting blu-ray is much easier than handling all the timeout errors from downloading HD video via ADSL internet conection.
richkawaiipikachu 1 year ago
That. Thing. Is. Monstrous.
baggedyman 1 year ago
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someone could create this idea ,DSDvideo laser disc , record it blu-ray laser, or it the new technology Holographic Versatile Disc "HVD" , Direct Stream Digital Video, uncompress video and audio , original master
CMatomic 1 year ago
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someone could create this idea ,DSDvideo laser disc , record it blu-ray laser, or it the new technology Holographic Versatile Disc "HVD" , Direct Stream Digital Video, uncompress video and audio , original master
CMatomic 1 year ago
Aint it great how they did away with vhs . The same with records they tried this but lost . The same with laserdisc last disc made 2002 , in the USA . There going to try the same thing with dvd , like HD-DVD .
ducklandwikeno 1 year ago
At 0:18, YAY! Terminator 2!!!
gravygwundud 1 year ago
@Poulsbo1975 lol
megga0 1 year ago
Nice video clip from the past . I quess he was right vhs did not replace laserdisc . I was phased out in the end . I guess it will never make a comeback like vinyl did . It would be nice to see new video from hollywood still release there movies on laserdisc . they wont do that its only dollars and cents to them only .
ducklandwikeno 1 year ago
@ducklandwikeno LD Master was made directly from the film. So it was pure analog to analog transfer. LD is as close as watching real film on a projector. Now all movies are digitally recorded, edited and mastered. So there is no reason transferring them back to analog format. They will never be analog. It's the same for LP. If you use digital processing then transferring it back to LP from a computer is a pure onanism. Analog should stay with analog and digital with digital.
DoctLaser 1 year ago
Can't stop laughing at 0:14
Lol.
superearthbender 1 year ago
at 00:53 is the film running man, but at 1:05 what is the song?
thomas49th 1 year ago
@thomas49th No it's Blade Runner @ :53
DoctLaser 1 year ago
And nobody mentioned that the movie is contanied on a collection of a half dozen different discs? Which in my opinion is the biggest drawback, and an overall bullshit. Not to mention how hard i laughed when i first saw that mother fucking big disc.
AMYuntold 1 year ago
@AMYuntold So which movie is on "a half dozen different discs"? I have plenty of movies on Laserdisc and the vast majority are on a single disc. Specific titles please.
laserdiscphan 6 days ago
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i just got my sony mdp-440 and it was a disaster, it does not open it does not close, it plays when it will and it will when it will not, never again on LD it just cause me so much stress, and madonna and cyndi lauper are both big bitches, they did not release their blond ambition tour and cyndi lauper live in paris on dvd that is why i came up in such a bullshit situation...i bought it in ebay for 86 Euro. what a waste of money.
jockeyhanes 1 year ago
Oh my God, they killed Laserdisc! You bastards!
Bylga 1 year ago
I remember when these things were becoming all the rage, especially since my College had quite a few of these, for educational LaserDiscs. Physics labs had plenty of those.
Then I saw something called the "DVD" almost 2 years later.
The rest, is history.
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akumie 1 year ago
wheres my blu ray lol
errod88 1 year ago
Apart from the size, how are DVD's any different? They both have lasers, they're both shiny, it just seems to be the size. Now obviously DVD's are much more advanced, but what did these do differently?
moviesunrated 1 year ago
@moviesunrated they were different how the players read them i dont know exactly how but i think they got read by something similar to tape heads and floppy disk heads
danielcrawford1991 1 year ago
@moviesunrated It's the formatting that's different. LaserDiscs are recorded in analog format, DVD and Bluerays are digital.
LiouTao 10 months ago
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cinemastupid 8 months ago
@cinemastupid Or it could get scratched and rendered useless.
moviesunrated 8 months ago
@cinemastupid laserdiscs never deteriorated and never came into contact with anything just like dvd dumbnuts
charlesskf 8 months ago
@charlesskf Dumbnuts? It was an analog format, it's not like some file was stored on it. I still think that If you keep a laserdisc of Spaceballs in its case with out ever playing it or touching it for a thousand years, the video wouldn't be the same quality as it was when it was manufactured, unlike a DVD or a Blu-Ray where the laser reads a file with the video on it in contrast with a laserdisc which is just analog video and analog or digital audio on a disc. Analog doesn't last for ever .
cinemastupid 8 months ago
@cinemastupid just because somethings analog doesnt mean its going to deteriorate, laserdisc is read by a laser too, so nothing ever comes in contact with the disks, and those laserdiscs had a layer of protective sealent on them too, just like dvds, so theres no reason to beleive they would ever deteriorate. god, just because its analog doesnt mean its crap, its actually better that way cuz u dont get those damn pixelation glitches
charlesskf 6 months ago
@charlesskf listen, if it's an analog format, if it's damaged it will damage the video or audio. You can break a dvd from being read, but you can never damage the quality or audio stored in that file by just playing it 500 times.
cinemastupid 8 months ago
@cinemastupid How do you damage it aside from scratching the disc? Which would also affect a digital DVD?
The reason why people say formats like LPs and tape can be degraded is not because they are an analog medium per se. It's because they are a contact medium. Meaning the readable surface are contacted to be read. Laserdiscs utilize no contact to read the medium.
MiniDV is a digital format, but its on tape and thus degraded when you play it. Unlike a Laserdisc or DVD. Boggling isn't it?
laserdiscphan 3 months ago
I really wanna get a Laserdisc player, even my favorite movies on Laserdisc such as The Lion King.
bhchilton100 1 year ago
WOW! Those things are huge, if my dick was only the radius of that thing I'd be set.
skye26er 1 year ago
@skye26er An LD is 12 inches, the radius of which would be 6 inches. Are you saying your dick is so much less than six inches that if it was six inches you would be set?
dandanthetaximan 8 months ago
I had one hooked up to my sony tv back in the early 1980's and the picture was awesome with most of the discs I played on it. There were a couple of stores nearby that rented them too. The discs seem to die out and then gradually started to come back. I remember the music videos...the one with "the Cars" was totally awesome, the sound and picture both were unreal. I wish I had that one but it was a rental and I returned it.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
sweet jesus, it was huge
0428733 1 year ago
That's what she said
Ibhenriksen 1 year ago
imagine your nephew trying to handling that disc!! gt a billion finger prints lol
digitalproofgraphics 1 year ago
"If you wanna watch a movie youll have to buy it"
No shit you still have to buy VHS tapes to watch it
Tylerd172 1 year ago 3
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Imagine if todays game discs were that size, and then the consoles lol :D
Thankfully there is advancement in technology
legomaniacman 1 year ago
@legomaniacman There actually was a console that used Laserdiscs--called the Laseractive. It was a Laserdisc player that you could plug in a Sega Genesis unit or Turbo Grafx unit which would not only let you play the CD-ROM games from those companies, but also LD-ROM games made specifically for the Laseractive. It failed miserably of course!
laserdiscphan 3 months ago
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legomaniacman 1 year ago
We all know Beta is the format of the future!
Tryzon 1 year ago 43
@Tryzon ha!
cinemastupid 1 year ago
@cinemastupid Yep. We'll all be sitting there watching Total Recall on Beta and enjoying heaping piles of solent green.
Tryzon 1 year ago
This is the most retarded news report I have ever seen..... What a bunch of rubbish.
Fast forward to 2010, does your average blu-ray player record? How about DVD, does an average home DVD player record? Things really aren't that much different today, with the only difference being the ease of recording the newer formats if you happen to own a PC.
It's also a well known fact that laserdisc can come close to DVD with the proper hardware, and almost always kicks its ass in the audio department.
otakujhp 1 year ago
@otakujhp maybe its me but it just seems you find older stuff on older formats if you know what I mean
Most new movies are not on laserdisc so if you try and find laserdiscs you will instead find many old classic good movies you would never find with dvd because when you look for dvds its mostly the newer movies that pops out everywhere
Same with LP you just find the old good bands you never would think of when you buy cds
The artwork on LD is better and why you should buy and not download
akumie 1 year ago
@akumie Personaly I dont care that you need to turn LD many times so long the format discs (cd, ld, video, dvd...) can last 20+ years without buying new ones
LD has the rotting, dvds has scratches that makes the dvd stop all together, video last less then 20 years...
Nothing is perfect but like I said the artwork and better chance to find the old classic good movies is a good enought reason to own laserdisc players
akumie 1 year ago
bigasssuperstar, could you please delete MetallicBill's comments, he's threatening the other commenter's with his freakish obsession. Seriously, block him too, I am really freaked out by him...
cinemastupid 1 year ago 4
@cinemastupid I haven't seen him write anything that would intimidate even a paranoid person.
bigasssuperstar 1 year ago 3
@bigasssuperstar lol, please don't tell me you took me seriously, I was just get annoyed by every single time I comment on this video he replies, and he also replies to everyone else.
cinemastupid 1 year ago
@bigasssuperstar
Yeah seriously all he is doing is correcting people on their facts...
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marjis3 1 year ago
The only REAL flaw outside of cleanroom production being PRIORITY from the instant the first discs were pressed, is that LaserDisc could only really benefit from a proper stereo and display, it's only part of the Home Entertainment system. So, yes, you have to invest in a package of sorts, but at the time LD was made available, the video was VERY lackluster and just not on any available even par with LD capability
MetallicBill 1 year ago
thank god they went obsolete. smaller = better. not the other way around. btw they were expensive. i remember Jurassic Park used to cost $100 when it first came out!
Conduit13C 1 year ago
@Conduit13C Video tape was MORE expensive, I should know, I was buying and shopping for content before DVD, and even bare bone DVDs were overtly expensive. I don't know how anyone can not see this, the price to renters of tapes was $100 or more. You only paid $100 or more on special edition Laserdiscs, they were $20 to $45 USD range most often
MetallicBill 1 year ago
Also, heres another comment that most likely will be thumbed up about this guy being stupid, I'm pretty sure people could be satisfied with both laserdisc and vhs, laserdisc for movies, and vhs for recording, if you could afford both. Most people in these times have something to record with (DVR) and something to watch movies on (DVD/BD player) I'm pretty sure this guy was being paid by JVC, LOL
cinemastupid 1 year ago 4
@cinemastupid What you say seems half right to me, Consider the most important fact, Laserdisc was an actual usable ENTITY since 1973. The date being 1979 of the reintroduction had nothing to do so much with it being a flawed technology then those behind it messing up every possible way of getting it properly to market. Pioneer made it what it needed to be in a very short time frame, and even then, more then a decade without DVD!!
MetallicBill 1 year ago
You know, why would people buy a laserdisc player just for the cd player? God this guy is dumb.
cinemastupid 1 year ago 10
@cinemastupid They do for better audio, and for better tracking of the disc itself. This is not dumb, it's fact
MetallicBill 1 year ago
@cinemastupid Because CD players prices back then were in the hundreds.
jugglingembalmer 9 months ago
Best media and by far better then VHS, are they kidding!!?? I still use LDs. The report is misleading for Prosumers in the know...Pioneer made a recording LD from what I recall, and the medium could have supported HiDef advances, had the 5 inch failed to do so. Dolby Digital came out first on LD via RF supported AC-3
MetallicBill 1 year ago
@MetallicBill Sounds like I was saying that it's NOT better then VHS, I wrote that confusingly I admit. I feel the way THEY said it was not correct. That it is better then the tapes, look at the problem at the beginning of this one for example ^^!
MetallicBill 1 year ago