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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Bonknuts on October 26, 2007, 02:06:45 PM
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http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/community/related/homesystems/halcyon/
Keranu would probably get a kick out this since it's from the 80's :P
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Yeah this thing looks badass, I posted a link for it before on another thread. What's really interesting was that this machine was originally going to use CEDs!
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laser disk was bad ass 8) Imagine how much data you could fit on a dual layer blue ray laser disk :-k probably like a terrabyte or something, :lol:
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I would say probably 100TB. The physical area of a 12" disc is enormous.
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The bigger the better too! A small inch scratch on a laserdisc is nothing, a small inch scratch on CD is brutal. ;)
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Question, why was laserdisc never used as an audio format?
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Question, why was laserdisc never used as an audio format?
From what I understand, it sorta was. They had numerous albums released on 5 inch "CD Video".
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But no video, just pure audio, kinda like CD. Why wasn't that done?
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The CD was derived from the Laserdisc, but specifically designed to be a portable music format. They came out around the same time, and both were made by the same people, so there was no reason for the laserdisc manufacturers to make a music-only laserdisc.
Also, the first laserdiscs actually had analog audio. They didn't adopt digital, CD style audio until later.
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The CD was derived from the Laserdisc, but specifically designed to be a portable music format. They came out around the same time, and both were made by the same people, so there was no reason for the laserdisc manufacturers to make a music-only laserdisc.
Also, the first laserdiscs actually had analog audio. They didn't adopt digital, CD style audio until later.
Was it magnetic tape-based audio or analog optical audio like in the Optigan (http://www.optigan.com/)?
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I don't really know about the technical stuff, but from what I understand there were "grooves" formed on the disc that the laser would pick up and read, kinda like a record.
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read the wikipedia entry on laserdiscs, that explains it better than i ever could.
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read the wikipedia entry on laserdiscs, that explains it better than i ever could.
I'm shocked. LaserDiscs were invented long before I ever imagined. When I was a kid in the 80's I remember they were getting semi-popular as the rich-man's home video medium. I guess I always assumed they were invented around that time (early '80s).
According to Wikipedia, the first LaserDisc was created in 1958. I didn't even know they had lasers in 1958.
I remember when my uncle got a LaserDisc player... My family didn't even have a VCR yet; too expensive, and the battle between VHS and Betamax was raging. He also had a six-foot bigscreen projector TV. Every time we went over there we always watched movies since he basically had a theatre in his house and the biggest movie library known to man. Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.
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Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.
Maybe not to you, but to me?
Jaw. To. Floor.
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Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.
Maybe not to you, but to me?
Jaw. To. Floor.
Well, it's not like I've got anything liks that. But it is a bit more commonplace today.
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read the wikipedia entry on laserdiscs, that explains it better than i ever could.
I'm shocked. LaserDiscs were invented long before I ever imagined. When I was a kid in the 80's I remember they were getting semi-popular as the rich-man's home video medium. I guess I always assumed they were invented around that time (early '80s).
According to Wikipedia, the first LaserDisc was created in 1958. I didn't even know they had lasers in 1958.
Yeah LaserDisc is truly remarkable and revolutionary. I really think the technology was given to us by aliens or something.
I remember when my uncle got a LaserDisc player... My family didn't even have a VCR yet; too expensive, and the battle between VHS and Betamax was raging. He also had a six-foot bigscreen projector TV. Every time we went over there we always watched movies since he basically had a theatre in his house and the biggest movie library known to man. Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.
Actually that set-up sounds way cooler to me than the set-ups in this crappy millenium. I'd so rather watch LDs on a 6 foot projector TV than DVDs on some blurry LCD TV. My grandparents had a cool big screen Zenith TV like that, but unfortunately no LD player (though they did have a huge old skool satellite dish in their background that we would climb up on). I posted about it before and how I would play Genesis games like Taz on it.
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That's funny my uncle had one of those huge satellite dishes too!
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my neighbor had one and never invited me over to watch any :(
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I used to have a massive LD collection and 9-10 players a couple of years back. I still have 2 players,and some movies,like my precious copy of Ed Wood. BTW,where did Stevek666 go?
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my neighbor had one and never invited me over to watch any :(
prolly cuz it was mostly porn ;)
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roflmao :lol: that bastard! that is what I wanted to watch most :lol: