I was doing some research and literally stumbled upon this PDF document outlining an interactive Laserdisc circa 1999, so quite late in the life of the mighty silver disc?
Does anyone have or perhaps has come across this disc before? How was it interactive? Similar to the Domesday disc maybe, or computer driven like an MSX disc?
Stick the PDF in your archive if you want Julien. Good to have a record of it perhaps?
I was doing some research and literally stumbled upon this PDF document outlining an interactive Laserdisc circa 1999, so quite late in the life of the mighty silver disc?
Yes that is quite late for a disc of that type I would think also.
It says the disc used is called Parenting Adolescents Wisely. It was computer based, system not specified but one would assume DOS/Windows 95 in 1999 USA, developed by the university of Ohio. I’m not sure if it has any use outside of this study but it may. In theory it could have been totally barcode driven, or using the computer to DJ the questions and tracks. I’d imagine it looked somewhat like all the crappy online based work place training videos we have now. The choice of LD over CDROM may have been momentum based but also consider that in 1999 DVD based training wasn’t really taking off yet and CDROM was way inferior to LD in both quality and quantity.
The study being published is what’s 1999. The PAW program may be much older. The point of the paper was to prove that very young, disadvantaged girls could be made better parents by this video so the young mothers are the target but their own parents seem like they are part of it too.
I’d imagine it looked somewhat like all the crappy online based work place training videos we have now.
4mins 46s. Just needs Benny Hill music. And not sure about the child slavery at 8mins.
Someone out there surely has this Parenting Adolescents Wisely disc. Come on silent knave(s). Show yourselves!
Can it at least be added to the LDDB, even with zero information available about the disc at the minute?
EDIT: I've submitted it for inclusion with the the information we have available right now. I think it's at least eligible on the basis of the paper no?
Fingers crossed someone stumbles upon the disc someday. It has to be out there somewhere, probably in a dusty locker under the school assembly hall stage.
EDIT: Looks like it was some sort of computer-based Laserdisc? See page 7 of this other report:
The most recent workplace training videos that I’ve seen, and I think they are relatively current, have no actors on screen, just some CG that looks like intros for Playstation 2 games. The first ones I ever took (8mm at Pizza Hut in 1991) stared the Indian guy from Hey Dude!, I think most would agree this is a downgrade...
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The most recent workplace training videos that I’ve seen, and I think they are relatively current, have no actors on screen, just some CG that looks like intros for Playstation 2 games. The first ones I ever took (8mm at Pizza Hut in 1991) stared the Indian guy from Hey Dude!, I think most would agree this is a downgrade...
he's hispanic if your talking about the other boy not the adults. but then i don't remember any indian adults on hey dude.
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