Man, a family I babysat for as a young teen had a Laserdisc player and a much bigger tv than our home set. I will never forget seeing The Abyss for the first time that way. Also Raising Arizona.
So a laserdisc player is a glorified microscope looking through it.
A Glory Scope. Hot.
Huh. I grew up with laserdiscs and never knew it was an analogue recording and not a digital one.
That explains some things for me.
Later Laserdiscs (and VHSs) had digital audio embedded in the analog audio stream the same way the GameCube and the Wii (and some N64 games) did it with Dolby Pro-Logic. But the video was always analog. IIRC the first widely available digital video format was Video-CD but that never took off in the west.
I never had one but they had them at school. Thought they were the coolest thing ever and also assumed digital because CDs were starting to become popular.
So basically a Laserdisc is kinda a giant non-stereo Viewmaster?
Well, yea, it’s an analog recording no different than an LP, just at a smaller scale.
Why post shitty gizmodo instead of the actual video? You’re just linking to a middleman who is widely known as being shit.
Because video sucks 99% of the time it’s used.
It feels like video is used only to enable illiterates.
I appreciate the copy. Video is so over used and so YouTube / google centric. Text can be more succinct, easier to navigate, and uses less bandwidth. Beneficial use cases for video certainly exist, but the format is severely overused.
Speaking of video, I have great nostalgia for the minds eye series. Great clips and soundtracks.
Yes, I don’t like the trend. “We put a laserdisc under a microscope and you won’t believe what happened”
20 min video
100% chance I’m not clicking.
