Rather than hijack the Flash Gordon thread I though I would start one on Laserdisc. My only experience of it was through Karaoke. I reckon Pioneer must have sold a complete package as that was what everyone seemed to use. This was in a bar in Tenerife in the early 1990s. Showing how easy people have it these days, hostess Myelle had to keep people entertained while finding the right disc, putting it the right way up in the player (they were two sided) then waiting for it to spin up, which took about 30 seconds
Almost ten year old Techmoan Of course Laserdisc led to the development of both CD and CD-ROM. Look at this as a showcase of its abilities, although I would imagine covering the entire U.K. would have taken several thousands of discs.
I just saw a Pioneer CD-Video Player for sale, I wonder how close the technology was? I think the LD actually has film stills imbedded in the matrix while CDV is digital. I've watched several YT Videos on the machines, it's pretty interesting but I think it was a player for rich people when it was out, the movies and players were expensive and then you'd probably want an early home theatre set up to really enjoy it.
Yes CD-Video was digital so far closer to DVD than Laserdisc which recorded an analogue signal without using any compression. I have had a couple of CDi players and video CDs and was pleasantly surprised by the quality which was similar to VHS. Fun fact. When U.K. TV started switching to digital they changed their Logo as they reckoned the old one, which presented no problems to analogue equipment, wouldn't look good when compressed digitally. https://www.logodesignlove.com/bbc-logo-design Read "There were various reproduction issues with the diagonals in the logo" as there were various reproduction issues with the diagonals when sending it as compressed video. p.s. I just found a great video explaining the problems with compressed video which Laserdisc never used
