Why did Laserdisc fail?
>>100189820Literally worse lifespan than VHS and the recorder was too expensive.
>>100189820Size
>>100189820>manlytears showing his gamecube disc collection
>>100189892kek
>>100189820VHS were way too popular to allow any competition. Also the discs and the player were much more expensive than a VCR and VHS and it could not record. Only a few cinephiles bought these for the supposedly better quality, but unless you had a very good tv you could not see the difference anyway.
No error correcting code. Was doomed to fail.
>>100189820You can se all the reasons why on the picture.
>>100189820too much soul for the soulless masses
>>100190150
>>100189820LaserDisc was too big to fail
>>100189820> literal bot post >>100189838 >>100189842 >>100189892 >>100190039 >>100190062 >>100190070 >>100190132 >>100190150 >>100190163 >>100190187> /g/'s collective of stupid fucking morons replying to a botlooking forward to the next dangerously low iq thread.
>>100189820VHS was cheaper and able to record hours of footage with 1 tape. Laserdisc had not much impact. Very popular in Japan, not so much in the US and even less in (West)Europe. When Laserdisc court more attention in the 1990s it was to late because DVD superseded it.
>>100190062>>100190354Yes I watched Technology Connection's six part laserdisk series too.
>>100189820giant fragile analog discs that you had to flip over mid movie, or in the worst case scenario multiple discs that you flip over, super expensive players.VCD accomplished nearly the same while being much smaller, and DVD blew everything away.
But I heard laserdisc had much better quality than DVDs
>>100190466You heard this from delusional people who don't know how any of the technology works but have very strong opinions about it
>>100191046But I heard that on reddit.
>>100189820I don't think it really failed, it was quite sucessful.
>>100190287(You) are a full time penis smoker. Drink some water, go outside, reasses your life choices
>>100190455VCD came over a decade later. Also, VCD is complete garbage compared to laser disc.
>>100189820That's a big disc
>>100190466Laserdisc has an edge on fast moving complex scenes. But DVD is better for the most part.
>>100189820In the west? Players were expensive and the media was super expensive with limited stock in the rental supply chain. Everyone knew about it but it wasn’t going to dislodge commodity VHS. Dunno why it took off in Asia more (anime? Wealth?)DVD came out and that was the end of LD and VHS. I had a HD-DVD player at one point which I used maybe seven times kek
>>100192185>Players were expensive and the media was super expensive with limited stock in the rental supply chain.The disc media was supposed to be much cheaper and players too. Video tape recorders are mechanecially relatively complex devices compared to a laser disc player, and effort recording every single tape is enormous compared to pressing discs. It's kinda miracle how cost optimized the VHS machines became especially in their later days.
>>100189820The most important reason by far was that it couldn't be recorded at home. This meant that there was a chicken-and-egg problem: no LaserDisc stores or releases because very few people had LaserDisc players, and very few people buying LaserDisc players because there were no LaserDisc stores or releases. Remember that you couldn't just order obscure shit from Amazon back then.VHS could bootstrap itself as a way for people to shift their favorite TV shows to a more convenient time and avoid missing episodes. Then, once there was a large base of people with VHS players, it became attractive to open VHS video rentals and stores.The second biggest reason was running time. People don't want to get up in the middle of a movie to change disks or cassettes, and they were willing to sacrifice quality for that. Many of them had tiny crap TVs so they wouldn't even notice. This is also why Betamax failed.
Consumers want convenience not quality.
>>100192185>Dunno why it took off in Asia more (anime? Wealth?)These days when a new anime comes to bluray in Japan they usually only have like a few episodes per disk.So there might be something to just how much otaku are willing to spend on anime.
>>100189820Couldn't record, simple as. It might have succeeded if movies were $20 but back then corporations figured they could make more by charging $100/movie and renting as an alternative.
It's way too expensive for a general consoomer. Although it did bring one advantage - bringing digital sound to the home. Dolby Digital and DTS were first utilized in the home on this format then it was ported over to DVD and they became a standard.
Anyone else extremely impressed that ld-decode and vhs-decode exist? When I think about it, I still find it hard to believe that technology is so advanced now that we can just capture the raw radio-frequency signal from LD or VHS and decode it with a Python script. It feels like a distant science fiction scenario.
>>100193430jesus christ imagine bringing a woman home and having that blanket on the chair. pussy probably dries up in record time and then calls the police
>>100190287literal bait
>>100194235At least it's a soijak and not some /pol/ shit...
>>100193901It wasn't more expensive than VHS initially.
>>100194219Personally I don't really care for vhs-decode / ld-decode. There seems to be a disturbing amount of focus on the decoding part. It seems that a standard thing to do would be to decode it and then dispose of the raw RF.
>>100193284its this. they only really 'took off' in places like hong kong where copyright didnt exist at the time and everyone bought pirated media at least the only people i knew who had them sourced the players and discs from there other wise they were out of the reach of regular folk and just a toy of people with too much money
>>100190150No one wants your big stupid frisbee
>>100189820It didn't fail. Its time came and went naturally.
Scratches shit on the experience real quick with stutters and skips. Love watching it when I was kid though.
>>100190287when making a post constructed like this, does the poster hit backspace and then space in between clicking each post it is replying to? I hate vertically stacked mass replies as much as anyone, but somehow these are worse.
>>100195075Why disturbing? I consider it the biggest advantage that you can keep the RF capture and decode it multiple times. You can wait for better decoding algos to come out without suffering the degradation that would happen if you kept the signal on the cassette.
>>100189820The gooner market makes or breaks any format. Go to any adult shop in the 80s and it was nothing but VHS nudievids, no laserdisk.
>>100195495gooner?
>>100189820They players are bad. You have to change the crystal out ever 40 hours of play time baka
>>100189820It was too beautiful for this sick, twisted world.
>>100195495There were some laserdisc releases for the upmarket gooner. As I said the last time this gay thread was posted with the exact same wording and picture as it existed in the US market it was a niche format for people with money. It didn't sell like VHS but it got all kinds of widescreen special edition releases. It was the best you could get in it's time. Of course even DVD coming out made analog composite video encoded on a big ass disc developed in the late 70s look like an absolute joke.
>>100195075As it stands the raw captures aren't really fit for distribution. Maybe if you could get a few people who are into that together in a group you could make it happen. I think it's less likely that the raw RF captures are getting disposed and more likely the people making them simply keep them to themselves, as distributing a huge flac file that can only be decoded with autistic software isn't really going to be popular.
>>100193430The difference was pretty striking even on normal shitty TVs. I always thought watching something on VHS looked like shit compared to watching on cable or satellite TV. It was my boomer grandparents house where I got to see what C-Band analog satellite looks like and obviously it beat the shit out of any shitty VHS tape. But as boomers who spent a lot of money on something most normal people didn't have access to unless they were hicks in the sticks desperate to get access to cable channels, they weren't that, their house was able to be serviced by cable, they still didn't care about the difference between it and VHS tapes. They still rented movies on VHS instead of ordering them on pay per view and watching with their expensive C-Band setup.
>>100189820Laserdisc players were manufactured for 30 years so it wasn't a failure in the traditional sense.
>>100189820The format wars.
>>100190150Explain what emotion I felt when viewing this, and why.
>>100189820It allowed people to backup and archive data, movies, and music. The media industry couldn't have that foil their streaming, rent, and cloud plans.
>>100194993Yeah and then supposedly costs of manufacturing came into play and the prices start blowing up.
>>100200375No. VHS players and especially the tapes were extremely expensive until like the mid 80's
>>100190150Holy based
>>100189820It was analog.
>>100190354>>100190430Great for you. Until now I never heard of Technology Connection, had to look it up. I'm not a fking zoomer like you that need to consumes YT videos in order to get informations. You probably need 2 minutes video on how to you wipe your own ass.
