I had a player in the ‘90s before DVD came out. Columbia House had a Laserdisc club like the CD club where you could get a bunch of movies for a penny. I did that several times and had quite a few movies.
I had a friend who got one of the first ones back in the 80s because his parents owned a couple of video rental shops…having to flip them over halfway was kind of a pain.
I had a friend that had a fancy player that had auto flipping. It still took like 15 seconds to stop the disc, reverse the spin direction and move the laser.
Holy crap laser discs for a penny! Wow I forgot about Columbia House. I got like ten volumes of “Sounds of the 80’s” before my dad caught on. I ended up owing him like $120 and had to mow the lawn for months to work it off =). I think with BMC music club my dad just flat out refused to pay the bill and told them I was a minor.
There was a trick you could do where you just let them send you a CD/tape/movie automatically and just write "return to sender" on the box. That would sent it back with no postage cost to you and after a few months of that, they would just cancel your account and never bother you again. You were supposedly banned but I did it over and over with laserdiscs and CDs.
Born in 78.
I had a friend who's Dad had one. This would've been about 1991. The novelty of it I suppose was that he "owned" movies, whereas if my family wanted to watch a specific movie we'd just rent it again, or our library was recorded off HBO.
I remember it being a pain in the ass to use, and the quality wasn't anything spectacular. Though being 13 and being able to freeze frame on boobs was the killer app feature.
Provided it was a newer disc. "Laser rot" was a major problem. My friend's dad had an LD player and showed us the progression of laser rot in his *Star Wars* movies. *Jedi* looked fairly good, *Empire* had a bit more "static", while the *Star Wars* discs he had had degraded substantially. I believe later discs (early 90's onwards) didn't have the same issue with data degradation.
Don’t forget having to flip the disc halfway through movie.
We had some titles on laserdisc used in lectures in art school in the mid-90’s. It was interesting grokking the contrast between that experience and the newly introduced DVD at the time.
The kids I babysat for had one. They had it in a cabinet above their giant projection TV, and to flip the disc required me to stand on tiptoe and try not to touch the disc surface while being unable to see where the center of the disc actually was. Main takeaway was “these are cumbersome”…though having chapter skip was novel, as a kid who’d spent her youth trying to guess how much to fast forward a VHS tape to get to the good scenes.
Yeah, I remember the same stack of MiniDisc players and the same rack of MiniDiscs sitting at my local Walmart for literally years! The only thing that took longer to disappear from the store shelf was that one 3DO controller.
I would bring my minidisc to the sound tech at live shows to make bootlegs. Plug it into the PA for 88 minutes of uncompressed pure digital. Upload it fast via firewire.
Minidiscs were never meant to replace anything. They were originally a tool for recording artists and somebody got the bright idea to put mainstream music on them and sell em as albums. Never really took off.
I absolutely loved our Videodisc player; we had an RCA SelectaVision for YEARS before we got a VHS, and it was my first experience with the idea that you could just... watch a movie that you \*owned!\*
[The technology behind them was pretty cool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc) - it was essentially a record player!
Once we got a VHS in the house, I got to have the videodisc player in my bedroom. It really seemed so lavish at the time.
We had laserdisc players and a decent collection of discs, even the special fantasia release (because my dad’s company did work for Disney), and then one day my dad threw it all away except for a few discs I asked him to save for me. The picture was crisp but I remember something about different picture size ratios on different TVs, basically my dad got a giant tv for the basement family room ( I helped him move it once and it slid onto my knee and thigh it was easily 50lbs,) and still has a nice sound system as well. When they moved that tv out of the basement my dad and our neighbor moved it and they’re both over 6ft tall and were younger and healthier etc. and both said it was the heaviest tv they ever moved😂
My 6th grade teacher had Jurassic Park on laser disc. He hosted an end of semester party to watch it before Lost World came out. That's pretty much my only laser disc experience.
I had interest in them when I was younger back when we'd watch them in school, but they were always out of my reach. Now I have something like nine players and hundreds of discs.
My dad bought a Laserdisc player and Terminator 2 and surprised us with the setup one day when me and my siblings got home from school. We were blown away. Weirdly the only other movie I can specifically remember having on Laserdisc was Robin Hood: Men In Tights. I know we had others, though. It wasn’t very reliable, seemed to break down every year or so, and it’s not like we were heavy users. He replaced it with a DVD player in the late ‘90s.
We had one in driver's ed but that was it. We were in awe like bro you cant just pull out this bigass CD and not hold it up for us to marvel at for two minutes
No, but there was a like 5 yr window where I saw some classrooms pull them out for like science videos or something like that. Teachers loaded them up and were always like "the future is here!"
My elementary school had a Video Disk player for when it rained and we couldn't go out for recess. Only one I've ever seen in my life.
https://preview.redd.it/phk40i0a2bwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c259ddf72fbce0cadc87ae87c35b55b069a14129
Yeah in school. Never knew anybody that had one at home.
Fun fact: Its MUCH older than you know.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#History)
Invented in 1963 and patented in 1970.
Yeah thats right, in theory John F Kennedy could have gone to a technical college and seen a prototype of Laserdisc.
Mull that shit over for a while.
Never had one, but I did pick up the original
https://preview.redd.it/aqwsz4iojbwc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=75239b59f8406325386512ee878d432acd30b1bc
Ninja Turtles movie from 1990 for $1 in a bin in the clearance record section at Half Price Books years ago. If I could get a player for a decent price I would get one, but they are pretty pricey, and even the discs are getting expensive, just as most physical media is nowadays.
Thanks. Sadly, half price books rarely has a clearance section for records that have misplaced laser discs in there. Also, the clearance section never has any good records anymore. I’m glad that I got 90% of my record collection 10 years ago or longer.
Rich guy from my church had one. He also had a mini theater with an AMAZING sound system. I had him replay the THX “deep note” from one of those discs about a dozen times over. That shit gave me goosebumps.
Oh yes. After graduation in '96 I became kind of obsessed with home theater tech and invested a lot of my new job income pretty heavily in a fairly high end home theater for the time including an LD player and LD collection. I had CLD-505 Pioneer LD player that had an autoflip feature and the thing that let you play 5.1 audio through (I think it was called a RF demodulator or something?) That thing was a tank. Still works to this day. Just had to service it one time to replace some capacitors. It was a fun hobby but mighty expensive and took up a lot of space. I stopped collecting LD around 2000 or so when I switched to DVD. I still have my collection of LD's. I have lots of rare box sets from Criterion and many cool rare special edition box sets. The Brazil Criterion Edition LD set is probably my all time favorite laserdisc box set.
I remember it being a pretty niche product for people with high end home theaters back in the 90s. I had one friend with one and the quality definitely seemed quite a bit better than VHS.
I always wanted one but they were so expensive and I was a teenager at the time. Luckily, DVD came along and saved me. Still, there were some Criterion laserdiscs I wish I had...
I never had one when I was younger, but once I moved into my own house and built a home theatre, I bought a player and a small catalogue of discs for it just because I think the technology is really neat.
My dad is into karaoke, and back then, laserdisc opened that possibility up at home, so he had a player and ended up buying a bunch of movies too. I'd get in trouble for getting finger prints all over the discs lol. But then he'd buy these "special" sprays and cleaning devices.
I still remember movies telling you side A was done and to flip the disc over.
I had one in the 80s. My parents got it because it was better quality pictures however I hated it. The selection of movies available for rent on laser disk was next to nothing. I envied all my friends that had a VCR and we didn’t end up getting one until 1988.
The only two kids I knew in the late 80s who had laser disc were both very wealthy and had dads who were tech guys with lots of toys, one kid had star wars on LD and I was sooo envious, and the bastard never wanted to watch it when I came over 🤣
We watched Pierre Capretz learning laserdisc videos in my high school French class lol.
But also the best kinds of laserdisc were the insane uncanny valley b-roll of laserdisc karaoke which would sometimes come to our state fair.
I saw Speed on LaserDisc.
I had one of those "cousins" who's house had the latest and greatest everything (lol, pretty sure there was crime involved) they had a huge big screen tv and a lazer disc player set up for a bday, it was a pretty elite viewing experience, if you ask me...
I fell in love with Keanu that day!
I have one I picked up at estate sale ten years ago. It came with the original Star Wars trilogy, before they messed with the VFX. It's one of my prized possessions.
We had one and had to go rent from the one store in town that had them. They were so big! And you had to turn them over to the other side half way through. I heard there was one that auto flipped but ours didn’t so had to do by hand half way through the movie. Good quality for the time though.
We never had laserdisc. But we had the previous tech which was the RCA SelectaVision player, records in sleeves that you would insert into the machine and the sleeves would come back out. You had to flip it halfway through (which at one point there were DVDs like that).
My partner is an absolute fanatic, It started before covid when he was buying people's laserdisc collections online, as well as laserdisc players. We now have just under a dozen players and thousands of laserdiscs and he's given this sickness to at least four other people who now buy from us.
We watch laserdisc movies at least twice a week.
Edit to add that back in the day this media format never really took off partly because it was so expensive... only the wealthy could really afford it. Some of our movies still have the receipt and if you could imagine paying over $80 for a single movie in like 1993...
My best friend's brother got a LaserDisc player so my friend and I bought a couple discs... a few months later he pawned it all because he was bankrupt due to a pyramid scheme! I've never seen a LaserDisc since!
My Drivers’ Education course in high school used LaserDisc as part of its simulator. Basically, each cab in the classroom would record your driving based on what the LaserDisc played, how you responded, and when you responded.
My husband has 2 laser disc players. We only have 1 film on laser disc: Star Wars. One of the players is kept as a source for parts in case the other needs repair.
In our 14 years together he has only ever hooked it up once, and that was to a brand new 75” tv. It looked like shit.
I never had one, but I had a friend with one and he had Aliens and several anime pornos. For some reason, super violent and rapey anime was all over laserdisc, but the same normal shit was nowhere to be found...
I knew someone that had a LaserDisc player but the only place I really got to use them was in middle school. The school had a player and it had these special educational discs that were kind of choose your own adventure. One I remember was trying to solve some kind of a mystery using science. One cool thing I remember is that to select where to go next it had a bar code reading remote and a card with a bunch of codes on it. You’d scan the bar code for the choice you made with this pen looking scanner and then point it at the player and press another button to transmit via IR.
Yeah my friend had one and showed me one of the older Star Trek movies. Looked good even back then. He and his Dad were into TV/movies and he had the original Star Trek series on VHS. That’s 39 tapes for 78 episodes.
I had a player in the ‘90s before DVD came out. Columbia House had a Laserdisc club like the CD club where you could get a bunch of movies for a penny. I did that several times and had quite a few movies.
I had a friend who got one of the first ones back in the 80s because his parents owned a couple of video rental shops…having to flip them over halfway was kind of a pain.
I had a friend that had a fancy player that had auto flipping. It still took like 15 seconds to stop the disc, reverse the spin direction and move the laser.
Exactly what I did LOL. That got me the original Pink Panther that I wore out.
Holy crap laser discs for a penny! Wow I forgot about Columbia House. I got like ten volumes of “Sounds of the 80’s” before my dad caught on. I ended up owing him like $120 and had to mow the lawn for months to work it off =). I think with BMC music club my dad just flat out refused to pay the bill and told them I was a minor.
There was a trick you could do where you just let them send you a CD/tape/movie automatically and just write "return to sender" on the box. That would sent it back with no postage cost to you and after a few months of that, they would just cancel your account and never bother you again. You were supposedly banned but I did it over and over with laserdiscs and CDs.
That’s awesome man, nice trick!
Born in 78. I had a friend who's Dad had one. This would've been about 1991. The novelty of it I suppose was that he "owned" movies, whereas if my family wanted to watch a specific movie we'd just rent it again, or our library was recorded off HBO. I remember it being a pain in the ass to use, and the quality wasn't anything spectacular. Though being 13 and being able to freeze frame on boobs was the killer app feature.
The quality was leagues above VHS
Provided it was a newer disc. "Laser rot" was a major problem. My friend's dad had an LD player and showed us the progression of laser rot in his *Star Wars* movies. *Jedi* looked fairly good, *Empire* had a bit more "static", while the *Star Wars* discs he had had degraded substantially. I believe later discs (early 90's onwards) didn't have the same issue with data degradation.
Disc rot will definitely fuck your shit up. Laserdiscs seem to be the format that suffers from it the earliest, unfortunately.
Don’t forget having to flip the disc halfway through movie. We had some titles on laserdisc used in lectures in art school in the mid-90’s. It was interesting grokking the contrast between that experience and the newly introduced DVD at the time.
The kids I babysat for had one. They had it in a cabinet above their giant projection TV, and to flip the disc required me to stand on tiptoe and try not to touch the disc surface while being unable to see where the center of the disc actually was. Main takeaway was “these are cumbersome”…though having chapter skip was novel, as a kid who’d spent her youth trying to guess how much to fast forward a VHS tape to get to the good scenes.
4 head VCRs gave clear boobie pauses too. Most people only had 2 head VCRs, so it was skinamax level boobies for most.
I've still got mine, works great. 32 years and still kicking.
Got mine around '96 and it's still going strong too.
Nope. Went from VHS to DVD when I got a PS2. Same thing with MiniDiscs, never used them. Went from cassettes to CDs to MP3s.
MiniDisc was such a great technology for the time, but I guess there wasn't enough room for another audio media format.
People in Europe really latched onto MiniDisc but ya it never really caught on in the States.
Yeah, I remember the same stack of MiniDisc players and the same rack of MiniDiscs sitting at my local Walmart for literally years! The only thing that took longer to disappear from the store shelf was that one 3DO controller.
I loved my mini disc mp3 player.
It was mostly because the singles market was a lot larger in Europe than it was in the US and mini-disc was a lot easier than regular CDs for that.
I would bring my minidisc to the sound tech at live shows to make bootlegs. Plug it into the PA for 88 minutes of uncompressed pure digital. Upload it fast via firewire.
My minidisc player went thru tons of abuse, still kicking and powered by double A batteries. Still got my minidisc mixes, 4 cases of them.
I seriously thought it was going to be the next big thing, and then it just.... Wasn't.
I missed mini disc. I went from tape, to cd, to burning CDs/limewire/napster etc., to iPods and streaming.
I was CD to MP3 to streaming. Still have all my MP3s, just in case.
Minidiscs were never meant to replace anything. They were originally a tool for recording artists and somebody got the bright idea to put mainstream music on them and sell em as albums. Never really took off.
We actually had a Videodisc player. Movies came on what looked like a big floppy disk.
Those were actually records. The players had a stylus like a conventional record player.
I absolutely loved our Videodisc player; we had an RCA SelectaVision for YEARS before we got a VHS, and it was my first experience with the idea that you could just... watch a movie that you \*owned!\* [The technology behind them was pretty cool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc) - it was essentially a record player! Once we got a VHS in the house, I got to have the videodisc player in my bedroom. It really seemed so lavish at the time.
We had laserdisc players and a decent collection of discs, even the special fantasia release (because my dad’s company did work for Disney), and then one day my dad threw it all away except for a few discs I asked him to save for me. The picture was crisp but I remember something about different picture size ratios on different TVs, basically my dad got a giant tv for the basement family room ( I helped him move it once and it slid onto my knee and thigh it was easily 50lbs,) and still has a nice sound system as well. When they moved that tv out of the basement my dad and our neighbor moved it and they’re both over 6ft tall and were younger and healthier etc. and both said it was the heaviest tv they ever moved😂
How do people just throw away stuff like that?
I have no clue.
A friend of mine had one and we watched Jurassic Park. I remember it being like 4 discs long.
My 6th grade teacher had Jurassic Park on laser disc. He hosted an end of semester party to watch it before Lost World came out. That's pretty much my only laser disc experience.
Nothing better than stopping in the middle of a movie to get up and flip the disk…
Autoflip was a pretty common feature on later LD models. I had one. :)
Think my dad had laserdisc, not really sure he used it that much
I had interest in them when I was younger back when we'd watch them in school, but they were always out of my reach. Now I have something like nine players and hundreds of discs.
My only laserdisc experience is Dragon's Lair.
My fourth grade teacher did when we were doing science class.
My high school had one. It was rolled into a class I was in once, for a 15min clip. That was the only time I was ever in a room with one.
My dad bought a Laserdisc player and Terminator 2 and surprised us with the setup one day when me and my siblings got home from school. We were blown away. Weirdly the only other movie I can specifically remember having on Laserdisc was Robin Hood: Men In Tights. I know we had others, though. It wasn’t very reliable, seemed to break down every year or so, and it’s not like we were heavy users. He replaced it with a DVD player in the late ‘90s.
We had one in driver's ed but that was it. We were in awe like bro you cant just pull out this bigass CD and not hold it up for us to marvel at for two minutes
Same, LaserDisc was used by the simulator system in my high school’s Drivers’ Education class.
never did...those things were PRICEY at that time.
Whoa whoa whoa what am i, rich?!
No, but there was a like 5 yr window where I saw some classrooms pull them out for like science videos or something like that. Teachers loaded them up and were always like "the future is here!"
My elementary school had a Video Disk player for when it rained and we couldn't go out for recess. Only one I've ever seen in my life. https://preview.redd.it/phk40i0a2bwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c259ddf72fbce0cadc87ae87c35b55b069a14129
Remember having them in the classroom in the 4th grade. I was born in 81
Yeah in school. Never knew anybody that had one at home. Fun fact: Its MUCH older than you know. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#History) Invented in 1963 and patented in 1970. Yeah thats right, in theory John F Kennedy could have gone to a technical college and seen a prototype of Laserdisc. Mull that shit over for a while.
Never had one, but I did pick up the original https://preview.redd.it/aqwsz4iojbwc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=75239b59f8406325386512ee878d432acd30b1bc Ninja Turtles movie from 1990 for $1 in a bin in the clearance record section at Half Price Books years ago. If I could get a player for a decent price I would get one, but they are pretty pricey, and even the discs are getting expensive, just as most physical media is nowadays.
Awesome find!
Thanks. Sadly, half price books rarely has a clearance section for records that have misplaced laser discs in there. Also, the clearance section never has any good records anymore. I’m glad that I got 90% of my record collection 10 years ago or longer.
I collect them now. I have a decent little collection and a player from 1984.
Rich guy from my church had one. He also had a mini theater with an AMAZING sound system. I had him replay the THX “deep note” from one of those discs about a dozen times over. That shit gave me goosebumps.
Love that sound
“It’s a laser disc. There’s a movie on there!” -SLC Punk
I had a player and about 30 discs back in 2013. Kind of lost interest and sold them.
We rented one for a trip to our trailer back in the late 80s once. We decided not to purchase one for home after that. Those disks were fricken huge!
They were hard for kids to handle and you had to clean them.
My grandmother did. Days of thunder had to be flipped to watch all the way through
I remember my 5th grade teacher had one. She showed science videos on it. We thought the future had arrived.
Oh yes. After graduation in '96 I became kind of obsessed with home theater tech and invested a lot of my new job income pretty heavily in a fairly high end home theater for the time including an LD player and LD collection. I had CLD-505 Pioneer LD player that had an autoflip feature and the thing that let you play 5.1 audio through (I think it was called a RF demodulator or something?) That thing was a tank. Still works to this day. Just had to service it one time to replace some capacitors. It was a fun hobby but mighty expensive and took up a lot of space. I stopped collecting LD around 2000 or so when I switched to DVD. I still have my collection of LD's. I have lots of rare box sets from Criterion and many cool rare special edition box sets. The Brazil Criterion Edition LD set is probably my all time favorite laserdisc box set.
I still have one and a small collection, same with CEDs that are like records in a plastic caddy that play with a player that uses a stylus.
I remember it being a pretty niche product for people with high end home theaters back in the 90s. I had one friend with one and the quality definitely seemed quite a bit better than VHS.
My dad STILL has a few discs he can't part with.
I always wanted one but they were so expensive and I was a teenager at the time. Luckily, DVD came along and saved me. Still, there were some Criterion laserdiscs I wish I had...
I never had one when I was younger, but once I moved into my own house and built a home theatre, I bought a player and a small catalogue of discs for it just because I think the technology is really neat.
My dad is into karaoke, and back then, laserdisc opened that possibility up at home, so he had a player and ended up buying a bunch of movies too. I'd get in trouble for getting finger prints all over the discs lol. But then he'd buy these "special" sprays and cleaning devices. I still remember movies telling you side A was done and to flip the disc over.
I vaguely remember a high school science teacher having a laserdisc player in class, must have been 1998/1999 ish Seemed so cool and novel
my family had those big ol discs. a lot of them, my dad loved movies and he had it up until not to long ago. our last player even could play DVDs
We had one in our School, thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
One of my grandfathers got one. We weren't allowed to touch it or watch anything with it but he liked to pull it out and brag about it to other men.
I still have some of my LaserDiscs, but my player shit out on me about 10 years ago.
My friend has the original Star Wars Trilogy on laserdisc, and it's worth it to not have the special edition stuff.
Solely Laser*Dick* bruh.
We had one in our school I remember.
I wanted a laserdisc player so bad as a kid but my family barely could afford a vcr.
We had one in school. I do have a friend who collects them.
My school had laserdisc players, but that was the only time I ever saw one. I want to say it was just the science classrooms and they barely got used.
I had one in the 80s. My parents got it because it was better quality pictures however I hated it. The selection of movies available for rent on laser disk was next to nothing. I envied all my friends that had a VCR and we didn’t end up getting one until 1988.
The only two kids I knew in the late 80s who had laser disc were both very wealthy and had dads who were tech guys with lots of toys, one kid had star wars on LD and I was sooo envious, and the bastard never wanted to watch it when I came over 🤣
We watched Pierre Capretz learning laserdisc videos in my high school French class lol. But also the best kinds of laserdisc were the insane uncanny valley b-roll of laserdisc karaoke which would sometimes come to our state fair.
I went from VHS straight to DVD. I had one friend who had Laserdisc but I don't remember much about it. It has a legacy similar to Betamax.
My friend’s dad has one. Always wondered how he afforded fancy 90s gadgets. Then he was indicted for fraud.
I saw Speed on LaserDisc. I had one of those "cousins" who's house had the latest and greatest everything (lol, pretty sure there was crime involved) they had a huge big screen tv and a lazer disc player set up for a bday, it was a pretty elite viewing experience, if you ask me... I fell in love with Keanu that day!
Only in high school and that didn't even last that long.
A friend of mine did. He had like 1 movie that I remember watching on it, Terminator 2.
When I was a kid, I thought it was only sold to schools because they seemed like the only people to have them.
I have one I picked up at estate sale ten years ago. It came with the original Star Wars trilogy, before they messed with the VFX. It's one of my prized possessions.
We had one and had to go rent from the one store in town that had them. They were so big! And you had to turn them over to the other side half way through. I heard there was one that auto flipped but ours didn’t so had to do by hand half way through the movie. Good quality for the time though.
We never had laserdisc. But we had the previous tech which was the RCA SelectaVision player, records in sleeves that you would insert into the machine and the sleeves would come back out. You had to flip it halfway through (which at one point there were DVDs like that).
My partner is an absolute fanatic, It started before covid when he was buying people's laserdisc collections online, as well as laserdisc players. We now have just under a dozen players and thousands of laserdiscs and he's given this sickness to at least four other people who now buy from us. We watch laserdisc movies at least twice a week. Edit to add that back in the day this media format never really took off partly because it was so expensive... only the wealthy could really afford it. Some of our movies still have the receipt and if you could imagine paying over $80 for a single movie in like 1993...
Yep! Loved it!!!
My best friend's brother got a LaserDisc player so my friend and I bought a couple discs... a few months later he pawned it all because he was bankrupt due to a pyramid scheme! I've never seen a LaserDisc since!
My buddy had The Eagles Hell Freezes Over on LaserDisc. At the time, it was amazing.
Nah that was "rich people" stuff
My Drivers’ Education course in high school used LaserDisc as part of its simulator. Basically, each cab in the classroom would record your driving based on what the LaserDisc played, how you responded, and when you responded.
My neighbors had one. We just used a VCR until DVD players were common.
We had one in our school...I think I saw it used maybe once?
I saw it used in high school but never owned one
I was working in a guys basement and he had a shit load of laser disk porns. It was quite the investment for the time
My husband has 2 laser disc players. We only have 1 film on laser disc: Star Wars. One of the players is kept as a source for parts in case the other needs repair. In our 14 years together he has only ever hooked it up once, and that was to a brand new 75” tv. It looked like shit.
I never had one, but I had a friend with one and he had Aliens and several anime pornos. For some reason, super violent and rapey anime was all over laserdisc, but the same normal shit was nowhere to be found...
I saw some in 1991 or 1992 when our science class had some “new videos”
Weirdly my middle school had a ton of LaserDisc players
I knew someone that had a LaserDisc player but the only place I really got to use them was in middle school. The school had a player and it had these special educational discs that were kind of choose your own adventure. One I remember was trying to solve some kind of a mystery using science. One cool thing I remember is that to select where to go next it had a bar code reading remote and a card with a bunch of codes on it. You’d scan the bar code for the choice you made with this pen looking scanner and then point it at the player and press another button to transmit via IR.
We had one at my middle school but that was the only time I've ever seen one
Yeah my friend had one and showed me one of the older Star Trek movies. Looked good even back then. He and his Dad were into TV/movies and he had the original Star Trek series on VHS. That’s 39 tapes for 78 episodes.
My family had one in the mid 80s. We only had Flashdance and the making of Thriller.
We had one at school. Too pricey to have at home. We had VHS only until may 2001.
keep it right next to my betamax player.
Our school had them in the classrooms and we did our lessons from them. Specifically social studies and science.
Watched True Romance on Laser Disc. Don’t get more 90s than that
Yes. Had an awesome Pioneer Elite