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Post subject: Re: All the various names laserdiscs were called Posted: 08 Apr 2021, 14:53 |
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signofzeta wrote: Discovision was the MCA era. Laservision is represents Pioneer taking over. Laserdisc represents the Digital Sound era taking over. Wish it was that easy... As described on the Soundtracks Help section: https://www.lddb.com/help/sound/Quote: With the arrival of Philips/SONY Compact Disc, all the rage was around Digital Audio and LaserVision (previously DiscoVision, rebranded when Pioneer took things over) wanted to ride that wave too.
LaserVision + Compact Disc = LaserDisc. Simple.
But that would be too easy. Some Analog/Analog-CX releases are carrying the LaserDisc Logo when they have no Digital tracks and in Europe they went the opposite direction marketing-wise and called them CD Video. Instead of putting the Disc in Laser, they put the Video in CD! To make it even more confusing, some "CD Video" were actually of CD size (5"/12cm) and carrying both CD tracks and LD video. What a mess for consumers. I have seen LD, CD Video, etc. logos mixed on the labels. Some Analog-CX described as LaserDisc. Some Digital Audio described as LaserVision. At some point I stopped caring and was only looking for the "Digital Audio" and "AC3RF" logos! Ex: Julien
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Post subject: Re: All the various names laserdiscs were called Posted: 08 Apr 2021, 19:03 |
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admin wrote: signofzeta wrote: Discovision was the MCA era. Laservision is represents Pioneer taking over. Laserdisc represents the Digital Sound era taking over. Wish it was that easy... As described on the Soundtracks Help section: https://www.lddb.com/help/sound/Quote: With the arrival of Philips/SONY Compact Disc, all the rage was around Digital Audio and LaserVision (previously DiscoVision, rebranded when Pioneer took things over) wanted to ride that wave too.
LaserVision + Compact Disc = LaserDisc. Simple.
But that would be too easy. Some Analog/Analog-CX releases are carrying the LaserDisc Logo when they have no Digital tracks and in Europe they went the opposite direction marketing-wise and called them CD Video. Instead of putting the Disc in Laser, they put the Video in CD! To make it even more confusing, some "CD Video" were actually of CD size (5"/12cm) and carrying both CD tracks and LD video. What a mess for consumers. I have seen LD, CD Video, etc. logos mixed on the labels. Some Analog-CX described as LaserDisc. Some Digital Audio described as LaserVision. At some point I stopped caring and was only looking for the "Digital Audio" and "AC3RF" logos! Ex: Julien Oh, for sure. I have Laservision discs with digital sound and Laserdiscs that are analog only. It was a very slow transition...but by, let’s say 1993, it was by and large Laserdiscs named as such with Digital Sound.
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Post subject: Re: All the various names laserdiscs were called Posted: 08 Apr 2021, 22:03 |
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retrolaservision wrote: Well the recording thing isn't really a problem due to the invention of DVR. Why use a physical format, when you can just record the show onto a box with a hard drive? Plus people who bought DVD players all basically had a VCR as well. (Though so did people who bought LD players)
It was back around 1991-94 when I would go to stores and people wouldn't adopt the format due to not having a recordable ablity. DVD won due to costs, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Cheaper to make, cheaper to made players, cheaper packaging etc. Only reason bluray is out is due to cheaper also, players are even cheaper than DVD players when they first came out and films are only higher priced on secondary market. They are still a buck a piece at thrift stores.
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