Nice to read this thread. I was an avid reader of this magazine back in the day - a new issue popping through the letterbox would always brighten up my day with thoughts of the wonders of technology and dreams of actually owning some of it... I even had a couple of my letters published 
The picture in the first post was actually from my ebay auction! A few years ago I decided I wanted to get the full set of the magazines (I was missing the early ones), but this meant buying some 'job lots' so I ended up with a lot of duplicates which I needed to sell. Surprisingly there wasn't a lot of interest - people may pay huge sums for a MUSE LD but are not so interested in the actual history of the format...
The magazine ended with issue 52 in 1995, due mostly to lack of profitability. At this point DVD was on the way, although it had not been named- there were two competing systems, "HDCD" (not the later audio format) and "SDD". Reading the article, I can't work out which of these became DVD, or if DVD was a mixture of both...
I wonder what happened to the publisher/author, Philip Parr? Reading his final editorial, it seems he got a little disillusioned with the LD format when he stopped producing the magazine. It would be interesting to know if he's still around reading about this stuff on the internet...
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