Re: LaserDisc
By: Nightfox to Android8675 on Wed Oct 09 2019 04:12 pm
CAV was supposed to be less compressed/sharper. I had a limited edition Blade Runner that was 6 discs, 12 sides.
Aside from cost, I think that was another problem with the Laserdisc
format:
It didn't hold very much, at 1-2 hours per disc. Having to keep flipping and swapping discs to get through a movie would be a little annoying. Most DVDs and blu-ray discs can store an entire movie on one disc, unless the movie is an unusually long movie. I think Titanic spans 2 DVDs, though I think blu-ray can hold the entire movie.
Well... I mean as robust and as "thick" as laserdiscs were, I imagine that if development had continued on LDs they probably would of did what DVDs did and add multi-layers which is really what saved DVDs from being limited to 1-2
hours per side. Also compression advancements...
DM said LDs were analog, which I find kind of interesting, and had never really though of until I saw the CED discs which do look similar to LDs. Weird
encoding which I just naturally assumed was digital.
At any rate, LDs needed to die, and really didn't stand a chance once the tech for CDs made the jump to DVDs (I assume that's more or less how it worked).
Anyways...
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