"A retrospective on the forgotten tech of LaserDisc and its role in the 1970s DVD era. ColdFusion offers captivating, well-researched videos that delve into technology, innovation, history, and ...

Laserdisc seems to get a lot of retro cred these days. It gets featured as a technical oddity, but from today’s perspective, it might seem strange that it didn’t become the de-facto standard.

The original technology for the LaserDisc was established in a series of patents filed between the late 1950s and early 1970s, as explained by the Computer History Museum.

Before DVDs and streaming, there was the LaserDisc. We take a trip down memory lane to revisit a format that was supposed to be the future of home movies. To revisit the format that was, I went to ...

But nearly two decades on, Portland still has a LaserDisc scene—albeit a “scene” by the very low standards of a small community based around an old-school video format that few people ever had.

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Actual comparison of Laserdisc vs. DVD. Thanks, Wikipedia. Pioneer says that it kept selling the players due to the vast libraries of Laserdisc movies that Japanese customers had built up.