I haven't seen this posted here and thought it might be interesting to some. It’s a Japanese video guide to all areas of life with very nice covers. The disks themselves vary a bit in terms of presentation, but they generally have an introduction by someone who was famous at the time followed by actors recreating certain scenarios as short videos. These are interspersed by many pages of text and images, in the style of early multimedia encyclopaedias.

All 10 of them are listed here: https://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=lifetec&sort=ref,asc

OK to use your pictures as covers?

Julien

Oh sure of course! I have a whole bunch of discs with covers missing from the DB however, waiting for a rainy afternoon to get photos of them all. If you want to wait till then I can also do the backs and correct perspective etc.

What a terrific time capsule. The case is amazing. I wonder what the market was for this. Did some sort of consultancy loan them out to helpless dorks and international travelers? Reference and retail both seem like a stretch for a box that had to have cost a grand.

People talk about capturing LDs here all the time but this seems like the rare thing actually worth doing.

I wouldn’t rule out retail actually – they come from a time when the country was awash with new rich, many of whom I’m sure were trying to increase their status in society. I can imagine the set being advertised on TV or in a magazine potentially? I’d love to find out more about it.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the content they would be a bit tricky to capture, but I could do the video sections once I get setup.

Fairly related - this just arrived today: Pioneer '91 VIP convention

Documentation of a company holiday. Presumably only for top ranking (50+, male) Pioneer staff, or maybe the staff of companies that worked with Pioneer.

I'll get it digitised as soon as I'm able to do so.

Here's the video for the Pioneer '91 VIP convention: