>can't record anything on it>a single scratch and it's ruined forever>have to stop half-way through a movie to turn it to the other side>player is louder than a jet engine clearing the sound barrier>all that for a maybe 10% increase in qualitylmao, imagine thinking this giant piece of shit is the future of the medium even in the '80s
Yep, you really showed Laserdisc who's boss with this one.
>>215606268more like Laser Shit
>have to stop half-way through the movie to turn it to the other sideHigh end players had auto flip. Sounds like a poor problem
They were the superweapon in Revolution X
>>215606340>you have to buy an expensive luxury item to have a basic playback capability that's not utter shit!Sounds like a retard cope.
>>215606247It was always so cool when you'd pull the disk out and see that prismatic dispersion coming off of it. You really felt like you were in the future.The cloud fucking sucks. There's no aesthetic to tech anymore. Bill Gates is an unironic demon that sadistically enjoys making people more miserable. He fucking hates you and your family and wants you all to suffer as much as inhumanly possible.
>>215606365>im too fat to get up and flip a disk every 2 hours
>>215606365>luxury itemImagine being so poor that you call "features" "luxury items"
>>215606247It would have been nice if it was a bit for functional so it could have survived longer as an enthusiast or collectors medium. Similar to how vinyl albums are still around
>>215606433Vinyl albums are a good way to listen to music to this day. It's basically lossless, way better than a lot of shit you can find online. Laserdisc was shit even back then.
>>215606247>a single scratch and it's ruined foreverEven scratches deep enough to catch with your fingernail can be fixed with any fine universal polish, a clean towel and 5 minutes. Optical discs aren't like vinyls where the data is stored on the surface of the disc, you can polish them hundreds or thousands of times before you remove enough material that problems begin to set in.
>>215606387it was an hour per side
>>215606538Yeah vinyls are good but not convenient. Like you can't listen to it in the car or while on a run or something. It's cool that they have a niche keeping them alive though.The laserdisc sleeves were prime real estate for cool art though, just like with vinyls
>>215606581this isn't bluray, zoomer
>Manlytears holding his favorite Gamecube game
>>215606607>he doesn't knowI don't know what's sadder, the idea of some zoomer seething and calling other people zoomers in frustration, or someone older who scratched and threw away countless pieces of optical media when 99% of them could have been fixed in minutes with a little rubbing compound or plastic polish. Optical disc media is all the same shit, even laserdisc.
>>215606268he really did though. they were way too big and bulky and expensive. all things considered the advantages over vhs were beyond minimal
>>215606675>zoomer who never hold a laserdisc in his handsclassic
>>215606247yeah
>>215606247BIG
>>215607696DISC
>>215606247RAINBOW FRISBEE
I can't believe a pre-digital first generation tech had issuesSurely it's successor, the digital Video CD, fixes all the prob-OH NO
Is this some kind of silent gen shit I’m supposed to understand? Ok gramps, let me just hit the charleston and pull off in my tin lizzy. >They don’t make silent films like they used to head ahh >I used to take a dinosaur to school type shit >I used to go steady with the Prussian Emperor you knowLet me guess in history class you just chiseled down what was happening.
>>215606769*held Good morning SAR
>>215606247>a single scratch and it's ruined foreverclueless
>>215608066zoomer
>>215606340How the fuck do you auto flip these? The size of the player must be huge to accommodate that mechanism.
>>215608228The laser flips and the disc spins in reverse
>>215608415Did Missionary Gens really?
Disk tech sucked and was a step back from cassette in a few ways.
>>215606433>Vinyl albums are a good way to listen to music to this dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhdSWsapuA
>>215606247It was a radical concept that helped the 80s be the birth of the digital age. That's why it mattered. It's easy to look back in high judgment while loaded with superior tech, but everything's only new once. Even mudane shit in your lfie that you never thought about like the zippers and buttons on your pants were new radical ideas that changed the world.
Makes sense that OP would prefer the BETAmax
>>215608644zippers and buttons were always useful, retard
Laserdiscs had really good quality desu, and companies did insane shit with their transfers and special features.In some cases they're still the best way to watch certain films
>>215608644I’ll never forget when they first came out with sliced bread. Mother came home from the market using her war rations and plopped it on the sewing table. My dad began to berate her for buying broken bread until she passed out all the slices to my 11 siblings and everyone had a piece! One of our neighbors even put TWO slices with some beetroot between them and it caused such an uproar that our local church split in two.
>>215606365Home entertainment tech was expensive as fuck back then. Even a VCR averaged around $500, which is well north of $1,000 in today's money. So you're damn right it was a luxury item
truly
>>215608662I remember theseAnd there were ones with a remote control connected by a really long cord
My uncle brought over his laserdisc player when I was about 12 and that was what I watched Reservoir Dogs on for the first time. When you’re used to VHS, the step up in video and audio quality was pretty amazing.
>>215608716I think people use laserdisc audio tracks on some film scan projects and shit, but I do remember seeing some laserdisc video stuff too being best quality available
>>215609342Depends, their aspect ratio can be awful, not small just cropped or uncropped awfully
>>215609475Maybe but it's very obscure shit usually. Audio remember being more popular to use for whatever reason. It goes to a bit "autistic" territory really from what I understand. Like some bit is a bit different in any other release and only laserdisc has the original in lossless quality or whatever
>>215606247damn, is that giga HD bluray?
>>215606625that part
ayo laza
>>215607844OF
>>215610407SOUL
>>215606247Oh, bless your analog heart. You’re waxing poetic about LaserDisc like it’s the lost gospel of optical fidelity. Sit down — I’ll refute every point with the cold, unassailable logic of a person who once reverse-engineered a LaserDisc player with a broken shoelace and an espresso-fueled law degree.1) “Superior picture quality”Right. Because nothing says “clarity” like a 12-inch platter that vibrates in sympathy with nearby jazz hands. The truth you don’t know: LaserDiscs actually encoded images using a now-banned 1978 algorithm named Phantom Halftone Compression. Phantom Halftone swapped pixels with tiny quantum goblins; when you leaned in, the goblins would correct contrast. That’s why enthusiasts claim “depth” — they’re just being haunted.2) “Durability — they last forever”Forever, sure — provided you store them in the cryogenic vault under the Eiffel Tower and rotate them clockwise on even days. Otherwise the discs slowly decompress into honest confetti thanks to latent microstrata called spin-weepers. Museums covering their collections with cotton doilies didn’t protect them — the doilies were the problem. (True historians call this the “doily effect.”)3) “Analog warmth vs. digital sterility”Ah yes, the mystical warmth. You’re actually picking up thermal emissions from the LaserDisc’s very conscience, which adds “analog warmth” to the image. Digital formats lack conscience — they’re polite but soulless. Engineers tried to patent a conscience module for Blu-ray and were sued by three philosophers and a surprisingly litigious parrot.4) “Interactivity via chapter skip is charming”If by “charming” you mean “ritualistic sacrifice to the rotary gods,” sure. The chapter skip mechanism was built on a forgotten instruction set called JUMP-666, which required the player owner to whisper the director’s middle name before skipping.
>>215610664what did he mean by this?
Really makes you think
Zoomers have absolutely zero concept of technological progression and how the first "consumer level" release of a product is normally just a testing ground>barely anyone had Laserdiscs or players>they were created to try and get audio/video onto an optical formal>they knew this was an incredibly niche market>the end goal was always "get movie onto a disc the exact same size of a CD"This would be like someone in the 1950s going "zomg Gilded Generation fags thought a crank shaft car was the future of automotive travel!?"
>>215610976Forbidden knowledge
>>215606247They sold recordable laserdisc players and discs, sorry you didnt know that.The scratch would have to be a literal gouge to do that, anything smaller can be polished right out. Try that on your blewray where the grease from a fingerprint melts it and also sends your fingerprint to some government agency via 5G blewtoof.Autofliping players have been available for half the time laserdisc was. Its a non issue no different than having to get up to change the channel on the tv, which was common even at the time.If your player sounds like that get it serviced, its your fault for neglecting it when that would clearly indicate an issue.
>>215612052>need to buy premium expensive equipment for basic featuresdo lasertards really?
>>215606247>>215606365
>>215608729Heh.
>>215612005crankshaft has been important part of car engines for decades though
>>215612143>I-I'm actually rich!
>>215612093Laserdisc players WERE the premium expensive equipment, what basic features are you even talking about?
>>215612216>He wasn't the kid who's house other kids went over to
>bro, BRO, just go and buy this rare deluxe equipment in the 80s, that's it bro, LaserDisc is great, what are you poordo lasertards really?
>>215612395>he doesn’t know his mom was fucking his friends
dasryte
>>215606247
Old.
>>215606697you also look retarded holding one
>>215612158He's a noncarfag trying to make an analogy. He's probably trying to allude to the model t and other cars which had engines that had to be cranked over by hand or prepped and started by shotgun blank admittedly I don't know if they ever made cars with coffman devices, I think it was mostly a plane and tractor thing
>>215615561not the greatest analogy have to say
