Lmao, imagine thinking this giant piece of shit was the future format even in 1990.
>>215393376I still have laserdiscs. Over 600 in fact. It’s a beautiful format with spectacular audio.
it looked much better than VHS and it had cool big ass covers.
>>215393423Sunk cost fallacy
>>215393423based retard
>>215393376how could your limp zoomer wrists even cope with lifting such a gigantic disk?
>Be boomer>Want to watch a movie>First need to rewind the disk to be able to watch it>Can take up to a few minutes
>>215393376> Lmao, imagine thinking this giant piece of shit was the future format even in 1990.It came out in the late 1970s.
No in the 90s people were thinking discs would get smaller (look at Men in Black for an example). Laser discs were more of an 80s thing unless you were in Japan and they were impractical as fuck.
>>215393376Even in 1990 Laserdisc was an outdated niche format. DVD wasn't in anyone's minds yet but it was obvious that something CD-sized was what the next big format was going to be
>>215393376Manly tears, stop showing off your gamecube collection
>>215393376I love my David Lynch laser disk collection
>>215393477Thats VHS dumbass, you dont need to rewind a fucking DVD lol
>>215393423Serious question though, how many of them have had bad disc rot? Heard that was worse with laser discs specifically.
>>215393521You didn't rewind your DVDs? We had a little contraption just for that next to the DVD player
>>215393521>>215393477
>>215393521You had to. We had one of those green rewinder thingies.
>>215393579Yeah this one. We had one too.
>>215393376So kino, pure kino
>>215393579Epic! I wish I had such a fantabulous contraption for my digital video discs. I've been rewinding them by spinning them backwards on a stick.
it's not that far off a record.surprised they never moved on to read-only storage on a chip, like a USB drive or SD card or something.
>>215393376it looks like a record but there's a movie on there
>>215393521at least you could fast forward a VHS.whoever wrote into the DVD specs that some intro videos wouldn't just let you hit the MENU button deserves a special place in Hell.
>>215393730That would have been the next step (a good one imo) but streaming arrived and ended the format wars
>>215393579i had a blue one which removed any electrical infetterence and prevented rotational velocidensity of the discs.
>>215393376Laserdisc was a snobby expensive bulky format for cinephiles who wanted to brag about how many lines of horizontal resolution it had. It was not really a replacement for cletus renting die hard on VHS.
>>215393423
>>215393376Imagine being happy owning no physical media, instead trusting content owners to not change the terms of the sale after they have your money or flat out rug-pulling the content away from you.
>>215393423Lol
>>215393521>you dont need to rewind a fucking DVD lolSo youre one of those bastards you returned his DVDs without rewinding them first? Bastards!
>>215393521You're smart.
>>215393542He can't reply, he's watching kino.
I still have no idea how the fuck you even have data on physical media. Like I understand how a USB would work with transistors and shit, and how that would translate into bits and bytes which then can represent data.But how in the FUCK you "record" music by drilling physical grooves into a vinyl record, or how the fuck data is recorded on tape or burnt into CDs is fucking beyond meand im a millenial not a zoomer so i guess that makes it even more embarrassing i have no idea how this work
>>215393831the Linux nerds were right about DRM and freedumz the whole time. a lot of people said streaming was convenient compared to piracy, and sure.but fucking hell just let someone download an MKV and play it however they want. everything gets ripped, even DVDs got cracked. you can keep the online stream too (ideally let users select different versions if they get 'updated').
>>215393891What does generation have to do with you being dumber than a box of rocks?
>>215393376>manlytears_holding_a_gamecube_disc.png
I remember seeing one of these in school around 1995 and thinking what its so big compared to compact discs
>>215393905>Why would it be a generational thing knowing about technology farther away from your generation
>>215393891i can actually (vaguely) understand any 'up = 1/down = 0' format more directly. punch cards, punch card reader. binary numbers, ez. ASCII in binary numbers, fine. some way more advanced file format, got you.for me i don't understand how the fuck something like an ANALOGUE signal works. what the hell hits a TV or radio over radio waves?
>>215393796But was it effective at reducing sinusoidal repleneration?
>>215393423Ngl that’s pretty based. I’m not quite a boomer of your sort but I still have all my burnt dvd-rs.
>>215393956Now 4K at 30fps from punch cards would be a feat. Someone should do it.
True story I've never owned a bluray player. Went straight to digital.If memory serves the Netherlands was one of the first countries with Netflix thanks to broadband penetration.
it feels like tech as a whole has regressed
>>215393891>I still have no idea how the fuck you even have data on physical media.>how in the FUCK you "record" music by drilling physical grooves into a vinyl recordyou already know, just dont over think it. computer data makes less sense to me imo. you telling me we can capture any sound and translate it into zeros and ones, but theres somehow no way to write out zero’s and ones in its rawest form and play it back? it doesnt add up
>>215394050wouldn't be surprised if someone has done something like this tbqh.anyone remember that Telnet server that'd output ASCII Star Wars?
>>215394115lel
>>215393376It was a movie record. And twice as fragile since a tiny scratch meant the movie will never work again.
>>215394145I would assume at the end of the day it's just representing sound(waves?) mapped to bits and bytes. How it goes beyond those 8-bit tunes I don't really get. Like some smart people all agreed that 1 bit = doot and two bits = boop. Then you can make the nokia ringtone.But how you can represent the sound of a fart in binary is beyond me. But I understand the core concept of it at least
>>215393521WrongDVDs required rewinding after each playthrough.
>>215393423Enjoy!Our average anon can't add 1 to 1.
>>215393376No one had one of these since the player was like $2-3K back in the mid 80s when a good middle class income was like $35K a year. Too damn expensive and the discs were fucking expensive too.
I had a friend whose family owned a Laserdisc player, except they owned no Laserdisc movies. We had to go to the one Blockbuster in the area that rented Laserdiscs, and we rented Problem Child 2. I remember the movie stopping partway through, and my friend explaining that we had to flip the Laserdisc over to finish watching the movie. Even back then, I knew that there had to be a better way to watch movies at home. People forget how much of a revelation DVD was when it reached the home video market.
>>215393376>Ohhhh Deevee, I wish you were my son!>Ohhhh Deevee, I wish you were my son!!!
>>215394115>we need more coders!>flood colleges with dipshits>need to pass x number of students a year>standards decline>now have tons of "coders">they expect money>outsource to india>standards decline further
>>215394145Digital data compression is extremely complicated, jpeg, mpeg , AVC, HEVC its best not to think about it. https://youtu.be/Kv1Hiv3ox8I
>>215394388'vibe coding' cracks me up. and i haven't done any programming since i was a teenager, but at least i learned C. although that was a 'high level' language at one point so fuck it, who cares if people use AI. maybe that's just the next step (and i still find it mind-blowing it can pump out scripts that do what i ask, the fuck.)
>>215394145>theres somehow no way to write out zero’s and ones in its rawest form and play it back?that's what CD and laserdisc did though. and you got a whopping 60 minutes of video per side.
>>215393423>muh laserbroLove my Criterion, CAV's, SE's, Imports, Box Sets, porn and numbered discs.First to have Dolby Digital (AC-3)...good stuff (for a short time)>>215394343your friend was lame and gay. lrn2 sony/yamaha flipper models
>>215394188It still exists actually : towel.blinkenlights.nl
>>215394504>avatarfags as a nigger>writes dumb shit like a niggerpottery
>>215393744That's just stupid. How in the hell are they going to fit a whole 2 hour movie into one of these paper thin shiny records? You can't fit any film in there. I want my money back!
>>215394423think about all the things we take for granted every day extremely smart humans came up with
>>215394556>avatarfagsthat word etc.
>>215393831No one trusts them, we just float from pirate site to pirate site forever and torrent the shit we actually care about.
>>215393730>>215393744Funny enough there was another format that looked even MORE like records and held the disc in a cartridge called the CED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
>>215394495someone recorded then loaded music onto a cd. im more talking about like, writing 010101010101 on notepad and saving it as a .mp3 file and playing it back. i think they sorta did that with 8 bit music but it got played back as chirps on a chip, not actual sound
>>215394059It was mail order before digital.
>>215394556
>>215394495laserdisc was *analog* that is why the discs were so much larger than DVD because of the inefficiency of analog storage of signals.
>>215394787they're both discs man how are they different?
>>215393891They lied to you, they actually captured spirits and enslaved them into the disc with a mixture of incantations and satanic chants using sorcery. Why else do you think they manufactured these things in Japan? The land of heathen gods and devil worship!Those guys at Sony (that's Satanic Order of Nemesis Yogis) are subverting all that is good and Godly by using their dark magics to bing spirits of sight and sound to these devil mirrors.
>>215394818same way some nerds had to figure out the 'Red Book' standards for audio CDs i guess:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio
>>215393579I stand corrected.
>>215394635The development of the CED is the ultimate example of sunk-cost fallacy.
for me it's Video-CD. squeezing a video into 700 MB so it would play off a CD on SOME DVD players, but whatever video codec they choose made it worse than DivX/aXXo shit.i remember waiting around for the day devices could just play a bunch of formats from USB/storage. even the PlayStation 3 was picky.
hmm
>>215393376damn, that bluray got bitten by a bee!
>>215393768As a current dvd watcher yes this person should be flayed.
BIG
>>215396840DISC
>>215393423I agree. Especially about the audio.
>>215393423Laser discs are one of the cooler things to have collected.
>>215394830Lol
>>215393891My dad once fixed my vhs player for me and as he did, he showed me exactly how it worked. When he was done he said something like "Don't ask me how a DVD works. Black magic."
>>215393376When I was on holiday in Indonesia in the early 00s, they had peddlers hauling up to 200 laserdisks in huge backpacks all over the neighbourhood, like a ghetto Netflix. Dude would walk around his route and get hailed by people who wanted to rent a movie for a day or two. I'd never even heard of giant disks before I went there.
>>215393376For me, it's obscure 80s/90s anime OVA rips taken from Laser Disc.>>215395013I still have a VCD card for my Sega Saturn.
>>215393891sound is just a wave so it makes sense that you could imprint it as a groove onto a material
>>215393376It's the same size as an LP, so it wasn't weird at the time.
>>215394592>think about all the things we take for granted every day extremely smart White people came up withftfy
>>215398862But a lot of this came from Japan as well
>>215398897Philips (Dutch) invented the CD/DVD though.
>>215398917Pioneer did the laser disc, Sony helped with CD
>>215393423Pics or didn't happen
>>215394635There are a lot of different video and especially so many different audio formats, that people have never heard of. Interesting stuff.
I miss the 90's so fucking much bros
I never even heard about laserdisc until James Rofle made a video about it around 2008. I guess it wasn't a think in my country. Everybody just used VHS in the 90s.
>>215393477I remember when DVDs started coming out some stores sold DVD reader cleaner disks, like the VHS tapes that allegedly cleaned up your VHS player. Were those a scam? My parents had one for VHS but I never saw them use it once.
A couple of years ago, I gave my collection of ~80 laserdiscs to a cousin of mine who collects cool tech like that.I loved watching them. Having the disc switch sides mid-film -- having to switch discs mid-film... it was really fun actually. No, I am not being sarcastic.>xbox huge papasan chair>xbox huge bowl of popcorn>xbox huge laserdisc>BBBRRRRTT vvvvvvvvvv>side B, hell yeah
>>215393768kek I forgot all about that, some DVD intros were kino though, I'd milk every drop of entertainment out of those menus as a kid.
>>215394188>Telnet server that'd output ASCII Star WarsI remember our boomer IT teacher showing us that when he taught us the basics, cool moment for 9 year olds.
>>215393423I've been watching some of my VHS collection lately and it's insane how poor the audio quality was. It's probably not worth starting a LD collection thanks to shit like laser/disc rot.
>>215394343A lot of places had VCDs before DVDs for a few years, you'd have to swap to a different disc halfway for most movies, really fucked you over when a single one of the discs got scratched and you were left with half a movie.
>>215393376LASER-DISCThere's a movie on there.
>>215395013>even the PlayStation 3 was pickyisn't even the ps4 this way? I remember putting stuff on a usb to watch a movie at a friends place and we had to first format the HDD right and then convert the file because it wasn't the right format.VCDs were weird, I mostly just used them for monster generation fodder on Monster Rancher.
>>215399827same, last year I was helping my parents move out and re-watched The Fox and the Hound on VHS, crazy how bad it was compared to the shittiest rip you find online today, but I think it gives the movie a bit more mystique somehow.
>>215393542Disc rot only happens if your house is damp af
>>215393768Some dvd players would override that. Iirc even the Xbox360 let you skip straight to the menu
>>215393423I think I am just over 100 at this pojnt
>>215399955I still pick up VHS tapes from thrift stores, since they're only $1 or less. I can take the audio hit, but it's all for the nostalgic novelty of popping a tape in and hearing the VCR do it's magic. It's still comfy, even if the sound is shitty.
>>215399956Laserdiscs had a different kind of rot that was caused by laser burn-in on the surface of the disc. Most CDs and DVDs don't even experience rot from moisture and the ones that do were recovered from environments like flooded basements.
>>215399956I can't keep laser discs at my place because I get your mom too wet every night
>>215393376It was pre-DVD and records never went away so it makes sense.
>>215393579This is a disc cleaner that strips layer by layer in hopes of taking out scratches.
>>215400048I don't think I could watch another movie on VHS anymore, but it was a nice hit of nostalgia as you say. Next time I touch those tapes will probably be when my parents die.Weird that VHS didn't make a nostalgia comeback like analog mixtapes did though, I still see some record stores hand out actual mixtapes, although I think the important part now is the actual physical object and how it's customized.
>>215394423>branch education>video about a branch
>>215394635I have a few of those. I also have some RCA magazines about the tech from when my dad worked for them. The research sinkhole for it was something that bankrupted the company.
>>215398741I have been watching a few :3 like AD police, Battle Angel Alita, even saw Appleseed just the other day. I have a few laserdiscs but sadly mostly movies no OVAS.
>>215394900Yeah. Even most people working at RCA didn't bother with it with employee store discounts.
>>215393891>or how the fuck data is recorded on tapeYou can record music and sound onto tape.The notes of music can be considered data.Computers are just really good at listening to music, and the "music" that is used to record shit ends up looking like one of those meme midis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tds0qoxWVss
>>215400126Commercial cassette tapes came back for a while but I don't think anyone except r/vinyl bought them
>>215400211>>215398741I have a few Japanese movie and anime LDs, but with out subs. Might be neat to just watch raw or just have it on in the background.
>>215400221my dad worked at RCA making laserdisks back in the 80s. he said everyone had the option to buy the laserdisk machines but would use their bonuses to go by VHS players instead.
>>215400234Compact cassettes are decent for audio, but no cassette player today support high quality metal tapes
>>215400234yeah the only place I ever saw them was record stores and the only people I've seen buy and use them are musician friends with amateur bands
>>215393423YEAH MORE LIKE GAYSERDISCS
>>215400519Chad Wardenn loved Laserdisc as much as the PS Triple
>>215400234>>215400495I got rid of my tapes the day I had a car with a CD player in itCassettes were just inferior to discs in every way
>>215400644Cassettes and VHS are just objectively worse formats. An argument can be made for vinyl, I like the sound a lot and I have hundreds of records from my parents and my own collection but ultimately it's a fucking pain in the ass so I just listen to flac
>>215393376There's a movie on there.
>>215400745Quality cassettes sound leagues better than vinyl. CDs are better than both, however.
>>215400853Explain why people hated Elcaset. It offered the sound quality improvements from vinyl and reel-to-reel in a portable format >>215400285Late into the Laserdisc's life there were some companies considering upping the density and switching to digital transfers so the format could support HD video
>>215393744Don't say that fuck you I said I'm sorry!
>>215393891You could just Google and learn about it you fucking idiot
>>215393423Based fuck zoomers
>>215393376>mogs your puny little disc
>>215393376I like movies with rainbows in them. Look at all the colors. It's pretty.
>>215393423>>215397582 doesn't audio and video quality depend on file type and bitrate rather than what media is used though?
>>215401025Nobody used Elcaset, while Dolby NR with chrome and metal tapes were widespread by the late '80s. Those tapes sounded great.
>>215401327>laserdisc files are often 10+ GBeven mogs DVD, holy shit
>>215393423Enjoy flipping your movie halfway, Loling at your life.
No one thought it was "the future" zoomer. Everyone knew that "some kind of video disc the size of a CD" was the future, but for now this giant disc is the best we can do.
>>215394642nigger cd and laserdisc were literally just binary on a circular disc you utter fucking moron. vinyl was the sound wave
>>215393376It was only newvu upper middle class people that bought these as a flex on thier middle class friends.The kind of people who drove a Toyota Avalon (lmao) but not a BMW or Mercedes
>>215393376I wish hipsters would bring these back like they did for vinyl records. The giant boxes are great for artwork and you can put all kinds of cool goodies in there.
>>215393891HereBasically all sounds are vibrations and if you can do Cone of sound>little needle>grooves of needle movement, you can do gooves of needle movement>little needle>cone of soundhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/1IotjpIZvAg
>>2153938911970s Sony engineers were literally the smartest people in the world at the time, that's how.
>>215399956my house is always damp because of all the WET PUSSY i'm getting.
>>215393891Have you ever seen a computer made in Minecraft? The grooves are like the notes of a musical sheet, and when the reader interprets it it can translate into a bit as easily as it can a note.
>>215400125I worked at a video/dvd store that also bought used dvd. They had a giant buffer in the back and we had to buff all the scratched discs that got traded in so they could then sell them. Buffing them was pretty comfy because I just loaded the machine and watched movies.
>>215402614It may have been a similar but different process because I had to cover them in a white goo and I think that's what filled the cracks/scratches, but think it also stripped the layers.
>>215393423600? Very impressive.
>>215398732desu that sounds comfy as fuck. I'd do it out of a van or something though.
>>215393956A carrier wave modulated by the signal wave. I suggest reading up or watching some videos on how AM works as that is probably the simplest to understand. From there it should be easier to understand FM and broadcast television.
>>215393376Laserdisc is the kino Star Wars version.
>>215393376>>215393423>the vinyl record of movie formatsI mean that in a good way, mostly because it's more fun to collect and display them vs CDs/Blu Rays
>>215402355I understand the basic, but I don’t get how they combine multiple sounds, like a drum kit, a singer ad a gititar that all have different wave lengths into a single record grove
>>215393499i was looking for a post like this, cheers anon
>>215402790They were all young guys too as I remember it, I was a postman for a summer in college, really fun job if you're fit.
>>215393376>Lmao, imagine thinking this giant piece of shit was the future format even in 1990.I mean why the fuck would you think otherwise at the time?>16mb of flash memory is a few hundred bucks>700mb on a cheap disc
>>215402995>that all have different wave lengthsStereo is just the whole song split into two, it doesn't have "the drum groove" and "the guitar groove" and doesn't need more and more grooves with more instrumentIt's just 1 song 1 big sound wave length, encoded in a tricky way in the V shaped groove (needle goes side to side in the groove, but also up and down, so you have read as two channels)
>>215403096It was always niche even at the time.VHS had been out for years and filled the need for home video collection or your average for the time tv just fine, and everyone already owned the system.It was kind of like trying to sell flac for $30-$50 pop (average price of laserdisc 1990) verses mp3 for $8-25 a pop (average price of vhs 1990j.Almost everyone is happy with the mp3. Also the non-mp3 system is also much more expensive .
lel, why would you see things getting smaller and think big is the way to go?
Imagine seething over 50 year old technology
>>215403177That didn’t address my question at all
>>215403277That's how 90% of all flashdrives in existance were lost between 2004 and 2015Sometimes being smaller doesn't mean is better, you should know this alreadyBecause of your penisSmall penis
>>215393891Total millennial annihilation.
>>215394115The good news is that everything will just keep getting worse!
>>215403344What a retarded anogogy
>>215403319I didAnd you didIf a a drum kit, a singer ad a gititar that all have different wave lengths, then that means it's all different groove lengthsIf a drum kit groove is 145 and a singer groove is 368, and you hear them together, the sound is not "145 and 368", it's 543It's a different sound with unique groove, you don't have a 147 channel and a 368 channelJust because YOU can single them out in your ear "the drum has been playing steadily" doesn't men the machine has to single them out
>>215393891Go to Technology Connections youtube channel
>>215403277Phone companies did. I miss tiny phones.
>>215394592*that white people came up with
>>215400126I grew up with vhs and cassettes so I still have some interest in them but nobody else in my generation seems to care about actually owning their media. t. zoom zoom
>>215393376Laser Discs were the superior format for movies at the time. In the 90s my dad owned a business for custom home theaters. The thing that sucked was having to flip the disc over because there was only 60mins per side. We got a DVD player in 1997, I would say DVD was a better format. I would say LDs quality was highly dependent on the player, a good LD player would give you picture quality comparable to DVD, and better color. Also using quality cables helped. I still just think they’re cool.
>>215403663it just became too inconvenient when a cheap, sub-par solution worked that solved all your problems in the short term. I found that when I only had VHS, I would cherish and boast about my collection because a lot of it was stuff I'd recorded on-air, making it way more personal. We'd also trade tapes almost every week, rare tapes or curated collections would have a reputation that went well beyond your friend circle. Once DVDs became common, this kinda faded imo, it became cheap, especially if you lived in an area with counterfeit or trafficked DVD sellers. Then finally with streaming, everything is a click away and thus has no value. I still love my boxsets, but even for stuff I own I will probably just torrent the whole series or movies because it's faster and more convenient, normies do the same with streaming.It's sad to see physical media go away but it makes sense, no one really cares about owning the stuff they are enjoying until they can't access it anywhere anymore.
>>215403344just cuz youre retarded and lose things doesnt mean everyone does y'know
>>215393376>Just sign up for our 50 digital streaming services >We totally haven't altered or removed scenes or entire episodes from your films or tv series>Also we wont force you to watch add even though you paid to not watch ads
>>215404054pay?You get better quality with BD rips anyway
>>215398223It's called a VCR you dolt. No one ever called them "vhs players" before like 2012.
>>215405475Wow look at the rich faggot who could record VHS
>>215393376I remember my parents owned Fantasia on laserdisc when I was a kid and it was absolutely kino
>>215393376my friend had hentai in these fucking things, the cover was literally tentacle rape.
>>215393891You're a retard and I'm embarrassed I'm in the same generation as you.
>>215393891If you know that freehand, then it would help rebuilding the world when it ends.
>>215393477The dual sides of the laserdisc made things tricky; people didn't want to rewind both sides.
>>215393376i didn't know for long time that there was another medium between vhs and dvd,for how long did it exist?
>>215405755A fellow man of culture I see.
>>215393891im an engineer and hopefully wont embarrass my instructors:>binary language = ones and zeroes>they are written on the disc, ie music, images, ie digital signals>the laser "reads" these ones and zeros >the encoder does the rest
>>215393376I had a friend in high school who's parents had a large laserdisc collection. I remember watching Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep and The Fugitive on laserdisc at his house. His mom was super hot too.
>>215405475I remember people calling them vhs players here in the uk
>>215405755I have some, kinda bummed out most of them are censored and the cassette versions of them werent.Expected the opposite desu.
>>215403874>Also using quality cables helped.lol
>>215403874>I would say DVD was a better formatit is a better format. it's not a matter of opinion
>>215401812DVDs are actually on par with VHS if not worse.
laserdiscs were cool for their time, there was no separate mix for theater and home either so you got a pretty crunchy sound mix.
>>215408982were you too poor to buy official ones?
https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUYShame D-VHS didn't have a fair go.
>>215408982simply untrue you zoomer retard
>>215408982>higher quality audio and video>could hold braveheart and titanic on one disc (required 2 VHS tapes)lollmao
>>215402995But just adding the parts of the wave together. Like, this isn't even a thing the recording equipment needs to 'do', since the sound waves are just naturally combined together as they are made and flow through the air. The images here show you what a wave looks like if multiple different frequencies are combined:https://www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section7_4/Sec7_4.htm>>215403431>If a drum kit groove is 145 and a singer groove is 368, and you hear them together, the sound is not "145 and 368", it's 543No, that's bullshit, the combination results in a wave with a different, more complex shape, not something that looks like a simple 543Hz wave.
>>215401962wtf are you on about...LD was for A/V gear heads...
>>215400285Been seeing de ikou on Tubi looked neat ish there a definitive list of stuff on laserdisc? Like there are for emulators an such?
>>215393376It was "proof of concept" for the ability to record and save data on a disc format instead of tape. And it's a key part of the birth of the "digital age." The part that'll blow your mind is the earliest concept version for it was invented in 1928, and optical recording/playback was invented in 1963
>>215411388forgot image
>>215393460we care more about quality and technology than sentimental retarded muttlennials
>>215393905because on 4chan you are accused of being a zoomer if you have a single personality or knowledge deficiency
>>215393423zoomers eternally BTFO
>>215399036same. laserdisc was pretty mainly consumed by muttmericans and southeast asians, i believe. we used vhs for a very long time and its common to keep them and pass them to the next generation here. my gen alpha cousins are grown up on VHS films. for instance, recently me, my friend and his alpha son watched this on vhs at his house when i was over visiting. its very nice because this film is not on streaming and its something me and my friend grew up on and now the next generation get to watch it too.t. norwegian
>>215393423i have them too, anime too,
>>215403874DVDs are overall a better format. Digital over analog means no analog noise or dropouts from imperfections on the disc. By that time mastering standards were better. Also, DVD made anamorphic widescreen more widespread, making higher resolution pictures for letterboxed movies. Otherwise you have big black bars on the top and bottom of the movie.Still, I like watching laserdiscs for content that's not even on DVD. And the huge discs made for some beautiful cover art.I wish China would create a new player, they're making new cassette players now.
Laser disc with a fuck huge rear projection TV is a more cinematic experience than 4K blu ray on a OLED TV
>>215411629>not on streaming>https://archive.org/details/jakten-pa-nyresteinenliteral one second search
>>215401791Elcaset has better bass response and stereo spread than normal cassettes even with enhancements. The hurdle back then was price, they were priced above both normal and metal cassette systems, priced closer to reel-to-reel than regular tapes
>>215411629>his alpha sonwhat about his beta and sigma sons?
>>215411968oh cool, thanks for showing me. it wasnt anywhere years ago so its cool someone added it there. the point was just that for younger generations, they are used to consuming media through streaming services so we watched this on VHS since we thought it wasnt on streaming since barely anyone knows of this film except millennials and old gen z
>>215394284I'd guess it's all essentially about being able to map digital libraries (e.g. values that represent the signals that are sent to a speaker to produce a sound wave or whatever) onto values on a digital medium according to agreed upon standards. I don't get how you store 1s and 0s on a disc, but I've also never really looked into it. I guess the development of this stuff is all a matter of autism and time (duh).
>>215403446he got exposed as a midwit
>>215393376Lol fucking braindead zoomers think they're literally prophetic because they were born a little later in time.
>>215412083no problemi'd still keep the tape, it's a different experience
>>215393423Have you had any start to decay?
>>215400231NTA, but...the soundwaves "hit" components in a microphone that resonate with them and that is translated to electricity/electric signals, which are then mapped onto 1s and 0s, which are then, according to a library of interpretations of those 1s and 0s, translated back to electrical signals which are sent to a speaker to reproduce the desired soundwave...?
>>215402487But how the fuck did they figure out the vibration/needle etc. stuff? How did they record music on records in the 1920s?
>>215412634Alien
>>215411629Yep, I'm Norwegian too. That movie is kino.
>>215399717>the VHS tapes that allegedly cleaned up your VHS player. Were those a scam?They worked, but honestly VCRs and DVD players are robust enough that the wear and tear on them from regular use isn't that big a deal. They're probably more useful to places that ran their VHS players 24/7.
>>215401859Actually at times you would see discs even smaller in future fiction such as Demolition Man.
>>215414285I thought the Minidisc was going to replace CDs for a year or so, but then it just never caught on. Glad I didn't get into it, that stuff was expensive (at least at first) and very hard to find. Looked really cool though, and the promise of being able to record onto them was ahead of its time.
>>215414378Yeah, seems like in America it didn't but it had some decent success in other countries like Japan. Shame.
>>215414378How do you play minidisk?
>>215414488A minidisc player
>>215393376>the future format even in 1990nobody thought that, asshole zoomieit was way too expensive, constantlyDVD was the killer tech that should've lived on,but everybody got collectively retarded once streaming became viable
>>215412634if you're genuinely curious about the history,the keyword to search for is >gramophone
picrel is still the king of cold, longterm storage/backups/archiving
>>215414443I forgot that one of its big selling points was that its anti-skipping technology was much better than a normal CD player's was, which back then was an annoyance.I think I saw Minidisc albums for sale maybe twice in my life. And that was well before even early online sales, so if you couldn't find them yourself and didn't want to subscribe to a catalogue service you were shit out of luck.
>>215393376didn't they make a recent breakthrough on quantum computing or something making it possible to store crazy amounts on a CD?
>>215414813>but everybody got collectively retarded once streaming became viableyou'll own nothing and you'll be happy
>>215416181even if they did, it will never be implemented again as they don't want you to have permanent censor proof media
>>215416786well there's nothing they can do about that short of turning the internet off
