LaserDisc Players: wave of the future?

1992 clip from a WGRZ-TV Buffalo newscast asking if it's a good idea to buy a laser disc player.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• laserdisc
• laser disc
• ld
• wgrz
• buffalo
• tv
• hd-dvd
• dvd
• betamax
• format war

[MrRambo4]

Thumbs up if you laughed too when you see the size of the cd xD

[HirachieOfSociety]

laserdiscs were pure analog video. No digital compression bullshit making the picture all pixelated. Pure raw NTSC video.

[laserdiscphan]

@MetallicBill LD did support Hi-Definition at one time, albeit short lived (and only in Japan.)

Look up "Hi Vision Laserdisc" or "MUSE Laserdisc" for more on that.

Plus, anamorphic video that we all enjoy on DVD on our widescreen TVs were also used on LD first (again, only for a short time though and only in Japan.)

Look up "Squeeze Laserdisc" for more on that.

[Annihillatorque]

Funny how these thing STILL! didn't go out of fashion and people still buy them on ebay garage sales flea markets and everywhere. Boomboxes, VCR's, Laserdisc - Betamax, 90's Nintendo's Sega Atari 3DO and other console's, 80's walkman's, Reel to reel recorders and more technology that is considered to be outdated is still bought like as if it was made yesterday and thus people tend to spend good cash on it too. By now i realized that there is no obsolete technology as long as people buy it.

[TheAORster]

Still use my players once in a while:

[laserdiscphan]

@MrAlfa1600 I have several 3 disc CAV movies as well (Criterion CAV "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and John Woo's "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" for example.) I still want to know what movies the above poster is talking about with "half a dozen different discs"!

[MrAlfa1600]

@laserdiscphan well, I have north By Northwest on CAV laser disc- three discs for the one movie...

[DasIstMeinKampyCouch]

This will be the BlueRay player in two decades.

[laserdiscphan]

@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.

[TheMichael408]

LMAO

[wlacaffetteria]

is this surely from 1992? it should be earlier... I mean, LaserDisc were already quite known since some years back

[keniakittykat]

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)