PIONEER LASERDISC COMMERCIAL 1989 - Gives your VHS a kick in the balls !! - Flip the side

[TheEgg185]

preview picture = "Son I am disappoint"

[TheYoNate]

OMG! I found this giant disk in my grandparents' basement and wondered "What is this thing!? It looks like a DVD but bigger!" Until I saw this! Thanks for posting this! :)

[mahdogzbite]

I remember wanting to buy a Sony MD player back in the late 90s... glad I didn't. But then again, I spent a fortune on an HD-DVD player just 8 months before the format war ended.

[milograamans]

I'm amused that they advertise superior quality image, but... since they use a tape to advertise the disc, they can't really show that the quality is superior because it's a tape.

[McmullenEJ]

its laser vinyl!

[posthumanfetus]

Holy shit look at the size of that disc

[iplikator]

They got it all wrong! Blu-ray has Amazing sharp picture and Incredible sound and Blu-ray makes Movies,Music and concerts truly come to life!

[EmpireLS56KW]

@iplikator Umm let me see with plastic DNR images yeah bluray really does look waxy and sound lol yeah even some if not most no telling how much has had dynamic range compressed even Greg P. Russell admitted to this with Transformers 3 so I guess we can call it lossless and half.

LASERDSIC RULES!

[EmpireLS56KW]

@iplikator Go and look at a first edition of STAR TREK IV on DVD and compare it with the bluray which is the same version they used from the special edition DVD. The colour is ghastly looking on SE DVD and bluray the first edition DVD will be the closets you’ll ever see to the 70mm blow-up release print with 6track DOLBY STEREO.

You'll then notice not only it was me that got ripped off but you was well! Go and look and see if you can spot the colour errors!

[iplikator]

@EmpireLS56KW No, I meant the advertising! Thay advertise everything like that! Surround sound, 3D ,Blu-ray, HD Etc.

[EmpireLS56KW]

@iplikator I’ve seen Sensurround in 1975 Earthquake but didn’t see the over the top trailer advertising sensurround itself, thou I have seen it today here. As for Bluray I see where your coming from now and yes its over the top its all been one lie I haven’t seen or have only seen a few bluray that is the same as DVD looking near or close to the release print, the rest is just well you know.

[EmpireLS56KW]

@iplikator Oh and what about S-VHS which came out about a year earlier and wasn’t that a 100 lines or more greater than laserdisc thou not many S-VHS films showed up on S-VHS and most common was VHS and laserdisc having the edge only a few years later Hi-Def Laserdisc MUSE would have even a greater edge but the cost I think killed the format and the timing was wrong around the same time as DVD.

[pfleeger2010]

These days Pioneer dealer = Wal * Mart

[BandidoTheVillain]

lol @ pioneer dealer

[dykeritz9]

morricone?

[RingSight91]

"Back Home" (abroad) and back in the day, near a gated community, there was an LD rental place near our house which would deliver LDs to customers, like you would pizza. Its name? Dial-a-Disc.

You could also go to the shop and flip through the bit limited selection yourself. Sorry, no separate pr0n collection. Just major movies and not-so-minor B movies.

[Hell1fire1]

Funny fact. If you flip in a standard dvd (640p) and watch it with your friends. (not telling them its a dvd). You instead tell them its a full HD (1080p) Blu-ray disc. They would acctually belive you. Saying something like... WOOOW, amazing, OMG, that feels soooo real!... Yes.. most of us wont see the difrence unless we have learned it and "felt" the difrence. I have been used to blu rays. so now dvds feel crapy. (sad) but in the begining, I could'nt see the difrence.. no joke...

[iplikator]

@Hell1fire1 lol your technical info is all wrong!

[mikeismad61]

I have to agree - I download and buy Blu Ray (as well as the odd DVD)

I know that given time (and it will only be a few years) Blu Ray will hit the dust bin

But like Beta, Laserdisc and DVD its the best right now.

Which is why I buy them

[mikeismad61]

LOL!

Long live LD (and Beta and MD and DAT and cassette and - well you get the picture)

[Luigi84289]

@mikeismad61 Laser disk was ahead of it's time and always stood on top of video tapes. VHS especially was the redneck of the home video market. Cheap as crap and only lasted about 20 years.

[ZombieDawg]

@BlueNeonLights21 Laserdisc was also the CD (without the "C") before the CD

[mikeismad61]

Still have my Pioneer LD and all of my 120+ discs - and it loads far far faster than my state of the art Pana Blu Ray! Of cause the picture is poor compared to Blu - but just wait a few years and super high speed down loads will kill Blu off.. Ah well - I loved my Betamax once as well....

[Clay3613]

@mikeismad61 Downloads can't do Dolby or special features, fuck em!

[iplikator]

@Clay3613 Tey can do both. I don't know where do you get such stupid information from!

[Luigi84289]

@mikeismad61 All physical mediums will only be owned by collectors and video enthusiasts in a short while. With Netflix and sites like Megaupload owning video stored on a physical medium will become a thing of the past.

[SongsJerome]

We had a laserdisc player from 1990 to 2003

[nrdesign1991]

ZAP!

[murdlok]

Too much digital noise!! D:

lol

[cessnaace]

Cool upload. Saved to 'All About LaserDiscs' playlist. :)

STAY AWESOME! :)

[lasercult]

I CAN SEE FOREVER.

[MetallicBill]

The Ferrari AND Lamborghini of Video, I started with Sony Betamax, too! I adopted LD with a $100 Panasonic dual side player, lacked AC-3, so my first AC-3 was the Elite CLD-59, which is my workhorse. Instead of the CLD-99, I got myself a CLD-HF9G, the Japanese version with LD+G, which CLD-99 doesn't have on it. Lacks the gold plated remote though, which is tacky, but needed actually!

[MetallicBill]

@MetallicBill The Super System would be one of the MUSE players, ultra-hi end!