Steve
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Why have I never heard of these?
Apparently they were pretty big in Japan, and even in North America, but were pretty obscure in Europe.
They were about in the mid to late 80's
Wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisk
They were basically a 12" CD that were sold with films etc on them
Heres a player
and the disc in size comparison to a CD
Imagine having to store a load of them in your film collection 
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Ojc
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AVGN
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adiohead
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interesting vid about them from the James Rolfe (AVGN):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtP5QrzuPSY
CED came out after Laserdisc:
vid about them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFcrhWEwEq0
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oceansoul
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Ex girlfriends dad had a laser disk player. Draw loading though.not like that photo. The tray that came out was huge lol pic quality was ok. Nothing special, but better than vhs. He said it was the best thing ever.....then dvd came along! He was a bit pissed off LOL.
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adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
AVGN
beat me to it 
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Steve
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AVGN was what i was just watching that showed me them
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Marc
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Are you joking Stcheven? 
Laserdiscs used to be huge! Because of the price it never took off.
I remember being in hi-fi store in Leeds and they had the Laser Disc room, Star Wars was playing 
If I win the lottery, I'm having a laser disc player in my cinema room
Shame you had to flip them over 
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Marc]
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John
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Noob Steve, a teacher used to have one in primary school.
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Ojc
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What one did he say had special features on it that the DVD or VHS didn't have?
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adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
What one did he say had special features on it that the DVD or VHS didn't have?
ET
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Nath
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They were about as successful over here as mini-disc.
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Marc
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I was going to dig mine out, but just seen the mess it could be under
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adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by Nath
They were about as successful over here as mini-disc.
I had a Kenwood minidisc player in my old Punto
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Marc
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I've got a Sony portable one, bought it to tinker with. Sat on a shelf on top of my Donkey Kong Game & Watch now
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Paul_J
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I worked somewhere once that sold these
- they went bust... unsurprisingly.
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Brett
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There's stacks of laser discs in the alley when they land the Delorean in BTTF2 
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Marc
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3CorsaMeal
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i now want one to fix to the car
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Pablo
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Yes I have a pioneer laser disc at home, I have around 100 Lasers - films and music same as DVD. Americans used to have AC3 (dolby digital) but english only had solby surround 
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Pablo
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Dav
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I remember seeing laser disc karaoke machines in pubs.
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Brett
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Why do I really want one now?
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Marc
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Can get big job lots of laserdiscs and players on eBay now. I was looking a couple of years ago
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oceansoul
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quote:
Originally posted by Pablo
What the Ex's dad had. I thought it was
I also had a sony portable minidisc, and a hifi seperate minidisc  I thought it was the bollox, my songs had names
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by oceansoul]
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