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Did you have a laserdisc player during the relatively brief time they were the latest innovation?
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Did you have a laserdisc player during the relatively brief time they were the latest innovation?
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Not personally but knew people who did & at the time I was in AWE lol
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I had a 'bachelor'-type uncle who had a laserdisc player back during the late 80s/early 90s, but we didn't have one. We were still blissfully using VHS. I imagine that a lot of people who had laserdisc didn't use it that much, because not a lot of things were released on that particular format.
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Nope. When were they out? I don't really remember them at all.
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No. I've never even watched one.
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My Uncle had one, I remember the discs were as large as a vinyl LP. He eventually sold it off.
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i remember i think in 8th grade, our school had them, and they show stuff on laserdisc in my science class, other than i dont really remember them at all.
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Tony Marino wrote:My Uncle had one, I remember the discs were as large as a vinyl LP. He eventually sold it off.
They were! Looked like a platinum record. We thought the technology was AWESOME! lol
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CeCe wrote:Tony Marino wrote:My Uncle had one, I remember the discs were as large as a vinyl LP. He eventually sold it off.
They were! Looked like a platinum record. We thought the technology was AWESOME! lol
I guess at the time it was pretty awesome.
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Tony Marino wrote:CeCe wrote:
They were! Looked like a platinum record. We thought the technology was AWESOME! lol
I guess at the time it was pretty awesome.
It was. But so was the VCR
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CeCe wrote:Tony Marino wrote:
I guess at the time it was pretty awesome.
It was. But so was the VCR
Belive it or not I actually liked the VCR more then the DVR its just more flexible.
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Tony Marino wrote:CeCe wrote:
It was. But so was the VCR
Belive it or not I actually liked the VCR more then the DVR its just more flexible.
So do I. You can archive material on VHS and keep it forever (even if the drawback is that the quality is shitty). DVRs fill up so quickly that it's not practical to save things on it for the long haul. You can burn things from it on DVD, but that becomes a hassle.
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Nope.
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Nah we weren't quite suburban enough for them. We didn't even get a VCR until 1989.
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Impact wrote:Tony Marino wrote:
Belive it or not I actually liked the VCR more then the DVR its just more flexible.
So do I. You can archive material on VHS and keep it forever (even if the drawback is that the quality is shitty). DVRs fill up so quickly that it's not practical to save things on it for the long haul. You can burn things from it on DVD, but that becomes a hassle.
Ditto. Quality (and the ability to rewind live TV) is the *only* think DVR has over VHS. Otherwise, VHS was actually a lot more practical.
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Should I be embarrassed to say I just got rid of my laser disc player. It's been away in the closet for years and I just dumped it about 2 months ago, although I still have quite a few movies.
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Before my time. They DO look like gold albums. To everybody that one . . . how was the pic quality? Because of the time period I'm guessing they probably werent that much better than VHS???
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