Rare Pioneer LaserDisc bumpers and side break in stereo...

CX decoding was employed on playback since the disc is mastered with the CX noise reduction system.

These bumpers are quite rare and probably only found on Pioneer LaserDisc titles from the early 1980s.

These bumpers came from a title that was made available in the United States in 1981 ("White Music," catalogue number MS008-U, which is music by a group known as "Talizman" played with snow skiing footage). I suspect this title was merely a straight repressing of the original Japanese disc for American release.

This was transferred from a Pioneer LD-660 top-loading LaserDisc player. The LD-660 uses an He-Ne gas tube laser emitter instead of an IR laser diode emitter.

The LD-660 also does not act on any player control codes, Philips or MCA, so it will play just about any NTSC LaserDisc from the beginning all the way to the physical end instead of stopping at the end-of-side code.

This means that if you have the DiscoVision issue of "Frenzy," you can play side 5 all the way through while on modern players it will stop on every frame because some idiot encoded each frame with a picture stop.

It will also play any MCA-code discs, such as General Motors promotional and instructional LaserDiscs from the late 1970's to the early 1980's, while modern players might or might not play the disc. However, MCA-code discs must be played on the Pioneer PR-7820 in order to use the interactive programming that may be in these discs; the LD-660 will just play the entire side straight through from beginning to end.

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• Pioneer
• philips
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• logo
• jingle
• side
• break

[logostrikebeta2]

How long did it take just to make a digital (.avi or whatever) copy of this video?

[Watcher3223]

@logostrikebeta2

I don't recall.

[justiphi555]

these bumpers are my favorite over the discovision and the laservision bumpers

[Watcher3223]

@justiphi555

Yeah. It's too bad this wasn't used more often.

[CMatomic]

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

[Watcher3223]

@CMatomic

That is, provided optical media isn't displaced by streaming or downloadable content or by solid state media.

However, I'd prefer physical media over downloadable content because there are concrete ownership and fair use rights with physical media that may not exist with downloadable content.

A notable example that indicates my preference: an incident involving Amazon.com and Kindle devices where books purchased as a download were deleted off owner's Kindles due to rights issues.

[shanksmare8]

Looks like Pioneer was influenced by the opening credits from the Superman movies.

[Nicholasc99]

I put this video on full blast on my iPod dock and it sounded AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[Watcher3223]

@treborpoop

It should, though I can't be completely certain.

[Watcher3223]

@jrdavis1992

Yeah, but I can understand why LaserDisc was replaced; DVD is overall a better and, more importantly, a more economical format.

But, that doesn't take away the fun and interest factor that LaserDisc still possesses.

[jrdavis1992]

Nice logos! I wish laserdisc was still available though.