We Bought a Giant Movie CD Player and it’s AMAZING - Pioneer LaserActive CLD-A100
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Before Blu-ray and Streaming, DVDs, and even CDs, one gigantic platter not only ruled over home cinema, but helped create the entire concept: LaserDisc. But what happened with LaserDisc? Why was it so infrequently used in its time?
For a much deeper dive into LD, check out Technology Connection’s videos on the topic:
Sources:
- TheDroidWorks Brochure:
- Lost ‘Return of the Jedi’ footage discovered on $699 LaserDisc (Verge):
- David Paul Greg (Alchetron):
- Electron beam recording and reproducing system (Google Patents):
- Record World Dec 2, 1972 (World Radio History):
- LaserDisc Database:
:-Passion-Tour-2001
:-Judgment-Day:-Teaser-amp;-Trailer
- Pioneer halts production of Laserdisc players… finally (Ars Technica):
- BBC Master AIV (WikiMedia): :BBC_Master_AIV_(Domesday_System)_(1).jpg
- Pioneer CLD-1010 (LaserWiki):
- Bilbo’s Japan CDV (Batini):
- LaserActive and Taito Super D3BOS – Unlikely Origins (LaserActive Preservation Project):
- RadioShack 1991 Catalog (RadioShackCatalogs):
- Low pricing of ‘Ghost’ on laserdisc shows a key to the current market (Chicago Tribune):
- LaserDisc Europe: A Miss (So Far) (Billboard Magazine Feb 8, 1992):
- LaserDisc Japan: A Massive Hit (Billboard Magazine Feb 8, 1992):
- The Ed Sullivan Show stats (US TVDB):
- HDTV Sets Now in Over 80% of US Households (Leichtman Research): ://
- Electronic Games 1993-12:
- Pioneer’s multiformat Laseractive System (Video Magazine Dec 1993):
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
2:33 Electron Beam Data Storage
3:06 Did it “fail“?
3:45 LET’S WATCH A LASERDISC
5:08 Resolution
6:00 Audio
6:15 How it evolved
8:50 Problems
11:40 Side by Sided with VHS
13:50 Durability
14:28 Big in Japan
17:50 Enter PlayStation
18:55 Playing SEGA on LaserDisc
20:15 Storage Density
22:22 Gaming with Cartridges
23:30 SEGA Pricing
25:00 Outro