I remember reading about them, think they were based on capacitive pick-up by the stylus flying just over the disc.Even Worse, RCA's stylus based SelectaVision Video Discs
Talk about a TRON WRECK!
I remember reading about them, think they were based on capacitive pick-up by the stylus flying just over the disc.Even Worse, RCA's stylus based SelectaVision Video Discs
Talk about a TRON WRECK!
My grandfather gave my father his film editing machine (may have been super 8 or the previous hone format) we used to get all the Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds (puppets, you could see the strings!) short reels we had and play them backwards. So the explosion, then the car/boat/plane all came back together - as kids we loved that!Quite a story. MTV BEFORE MTV. A very progressive Navy Ship. I remember 16mm well......in high school, we were lulled to sleep by those 16mm scratched prints with deplorable audio. When I got my first 8mm Sound Projector, the studios used to put out 10 minute clips of major motion pictures and charge $15 for the privilege. Horrible prints and mono sound......but at the time, I was in heaven. Amazon now blows out UHD4K discs for under $10 with astounding resolution and dolby ATMOS soundtracks so if one wants to quibble how everything was SO cheap in the 'ole days ..... think again.
I remember reading about them, think they were based on capacitive pick-up by the stylus flying just over the disc.
I dunno man - if there was anything edited out of these, I can't imagine what it would've been......I hope they weren't the crudely "edited" versions from the porn theatres...
So the stylus ran in a groove! Can't have been that much bandwidth, must have made VHS look hi-def
Not if the period of the frame rate is less than the duration of persistence of vision.
I remember reading about them, think they were based on capacitive pick-up by the stylus flying just over the disc.
WOW indeed!Selectavision was one of the few wacky formats I did not get involved in, but I would hate to see a total of how many dollars I spent on LaserDiscs. Oh My! I can still remember dropping $125 on certain Criterion's and other collectors sets, rationalizing that I'd be "good to go" when I retired because I'd have this great movie library to watch forever.
Now I have 1000 or so discs I pretty much have to get off my ass and take to the dump!
Selectavision was one of the few wacky formats I did not get involved in, but I would hate to see a total of how many dollars I spent on LaserDiscs. Oh My! I can still remember dropping $125 on certain Criterion's and other collectors sets, rationalizing that I'd be "good to go" when I retired because I'd have this great movie library to watch forever.
Now I have 1000 or so discs I pretty much have to get off my ass and take to the dump!
Ha! as a 57 year old, I remember these records, but I loved the cereal, too. The records really played and were good! I also remember being excited to get yo-yo’s from cereal. All this fun stuff and Sea Monkeys, too! What could be better! Except the clackerSI actually remember getting records like this on the back of a cereal box, but I don't think I had the Monkees one. Strange promotion but they did work. As I recall they didn't sound very good but hey!, they were free. (Except you had to eat the shitty cereal) One of my far back memories of being a real little kid was getting my Mom to buy cereal not because I liked it, but because of what the prize inside was. The late '50s was a time of bizarre marketing. I can remember laundry detergent boxes with drinking glasses in them (real glass! Collect them all!), and even stores that would give you a dish with every visit (again, collect them all) These are VERY way-back memories. Damned if I can't remember last week, but I remember this shit. (I guess it won't be long for me to forget this website's url!)
Beautiful player. Still using it? I always wanted one of the MUSE LD players.DITTO, John. Even invested in Pioneer's Elite model disc player and Theta Digitals behemoth which at a further expense of about $1500 upgraded the model to play Dolby Digital 5.1......a BIG deal at the time. Even have the Japanese Box set of the first three Star War Films.
There was a store in Greenwich, Connecticut called AUD/VID which sold the players and actually rented out Laserdiscs and applied the rental fee should you want to purchase the disc. But the harm was done ..... couldn't actually calculate how many thousands of dollars I lavished on the format. Way over $30K, that's for sure!
And the REAL shame, UHD4K discs represent the pinnacle of home video excellence and the studios, IMO, have lost interest in manufacturing them. They trickle out in short supply and methinks the studios would rather license their films to pay per view/streaming channels than actually be bothered producing them for sale.
Theta's Laserdisc player with 'nifty' separate CD drawer!
Beautiful player. Still using it? I always wanted one of the MUSE LD players.
RE: store rental LD's. I had a store like that locally as well. Saturday mornings it was packed with people & by people I mean just guys, perusing the LD's looking for something to watch that night. Unlike most of them I would rent maybe 6>10 LD's a time & dub to S-VHS & watch later. No copy right protection at all! And the S Video was almost a match for LD. Good times.
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