Two other things I love about this:
-The CD factory guy's hair
-That someone in the YouTube comments found the audiophile guy on Facebook. It's definitely him. Gotta love technology.
And yes, Laser Disc already existed but never had much popularity. My roommate in college in '86 had one (his dad was a contractor who had demo'ed an old record store and found it along with many movies) but the quality wasn't that good for most movies. If the movie was encoded digitally, it would take 2-3 discs to hold the movie which was annoying. So a lot of the movies were analog. So there was little reason to get one (fewer movies, low availability to rent, expensive to buy).
Nickelodeon used to have a gee whiz science show back in the early 80s. They covered the new CD technology in ~1981. At that time the prediction was that CDs were going to be thicker and encased in plastic, protecting the music. They had a cartoon of a dog carrying a CD around the house to no ill effect on the CD.
Not completely mind blowing. They came from laser disc. Why do you think they called them COMPACT discs? We already had something larger.
Dammit, GPS! How long does it take to talk to space?! It's right there."Mass broadcasting dates back to 1922, when the BBC incorporated. My Grandma was born a year later. So she's witnessed mass media since its inception. Imagine back then flipping a switch on a box and having music literally come out of thin air. Must have seemed like magic.
We really are kind of blasais about the futuristic wonder world we live in.
The last hope of humanity extinguished.Television just made its debut in Bhutan in 1999 for the first time.
He probably means the audio.All laserdisc movies were analog. Many that fit on one disc only did because the movie was edited down.
it was a related video when I was discussing the MPD-AP20U.Not sure what I was looking into, but I saw this video a few months ago.
He probably means the audio.
There were many titles where they release multiple versions for different audio formats and they weren't able to fit them all, so it does sound similar.Nah...I was thinking they had an analog and a digital format for video and the digital could only hold like 30 or 45 minutes. Hell it's 30 year old technology and not something that particularly intrigued me then so it's not surprising I got it wrong
As for the comment about the Star Wars...I'm *pretty* sure he had that disc also but I'm also pretty sure he's thrown it all away since then. And knowing him, he'd probably kick himself if he knew the disc was worth a few hundred bucks.
amazing how far we've come. i would love to hear what someone who's 80-100 say about the progress of technology in their lifetime. must be pretty mindblowing.
Yeah, there are fan edits of various movies which incorporate LD and other A/V sources since BD versions are not original or otherwise worse.
What if they're disappointed? Didn't many old theories think we'd have colonized the moon by now?
That was awful.Yet, only 16 years later....
Original ipod commerical from 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_bDNaYAr8
I spent something crazy - many hundreds of Canuck bux - for my first CD-ROM drive, attached to my Creative Labs Sound Blaster.Reminds me of that scene from the Wedding Singer where he brings home the CD player. Only $600! :awe:
I spent something crazy - many hundreds of Canuck bux - for my first CD-ROM drive, attached to my Creative Labs Sound Blaster.
I remember when CD's used to come in those tall cardboard boxes.
I still have a working USB zip drive. It's not plugged into anything though.It's funny how things progress...copying cassette tapes & recording off the radio, then floppies for computers (I tried to skip ZIP disks), then burning CD's when Napster was all the craze, then DVD's when DVD Shrink was all the craze, then USB sticks, and now everything is online. I mean, you can literally buy a one-terabyte USB stick (not drive) these days, but nobody cares because we have Netflix & Spotify now