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Posted: 21 Apr 2021, 01:41 

A few years ago, I was casually strolling down my local flea market when I found a very unusual, very beat-up Imation LaserDisc...
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Besides the fact that it was for Best Buy, the late manufacturing date and the implication it was a back-up for an HD master piqued my interest!

I just recently captured it and put an edited version up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qadXgWjrI

It's a very, very high-quality 4:3 crop of an obvious 16:9 source. With the loss of picture, I'm not sure I understand what the purpose of a back-up like this is. Was it not a back-up and instead a distribution given to stores that didn't yet have a HD infrastructure?

Does anyone have any information on this disc, have information on the purpose of such a disc, or have similar, pressed HD-mastered "back-ups" on LD from the turn of the millennium?
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