1:02, that's the disc from a CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) caddy.

Great documentary! I learned a lot about this that I didn't know of before!

This is my favorite old tech video it's like a educational obsolete video that I love to watch multiple time same as you VHS video! Great work!

I'm looking forward to seeing this!! :D

I am watching this right now.

I consider myself lucky, because I happened to find a Panasonic Laserdisc player at a local charity shop here in Australia. It was still in working condition, and it only cost $60AU. As I am a fan of retro technology, I gathered my money and purchased when I had a chance. It had a Australian power supply, yet it could play NTSC discs on my flatscreen TV easily. And given I can find Laserdiscs from America quite easily, it is a good investment.

This will be epic

What a way to finish August :-)

9:56 My Table Vibrating thats a nostalgia 😊

Nice Documentary!

This document was amazing!

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-- 3hours later... (not really) OOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!

This is amazing good joob cg88 good job😀

Speaking of that blockbuster picture. Theres literally one still open

Got my first LD player in 93/94 and loved ir! And the auto side change

Good film!

This is gonna be grrrrrrrrrrrreat!

What can I say? This is going to be great!

This is gonna be good

9:59 30 years of this sound for me, alwas make me smile.

That MCA logo at 4:59 brings so much memories, because when you see that logo at the end of a 1975 to 1991 UNIVERSAL program, you would know what's next... The infamous 1975 Universal TV logo! (1982 theme or 1982 low tone theme would happen most likely.)

That was cool

The problem with Laserdisc at the time was availability. When I was a kid in the 80's/90's I never saw a laserdisc, not once. I never saw them on display in Dixons, Currys, Comet, Argos, Littlewoods or even in any catalogue for that matter. I never saw the discs themselves in any record, movie shop or rental store. It was a limited and for all I know restricted clientele. I only ever knew about them from movies and even then there's only a few movies that I watched that had them in them. Most people had VCR's because they were featured in hire purchase catalogues which made it affordable for most people. Technology was very expensive back then due to all the mechanical mechanisms inside them which drove up the price by quite a lot. It's not that Laserdisc was a failure or even expensive, it was just hard to get hold of one. Most people didn't have the internet back then so you'd need to go to a shop to buy one but if your local shops weren't selling them then tough luck. You'd need to go into a city to buy one as well as the discs. A huge selling point for Video tape was the recording feature. That's what sold the machine. People wanted features for their money. Watching one TV show while recording another was a big thing when two programmes are being broadcast at the same time and you want to watch both or setting the timer to record a movie at 2AM. Movies were expensive so a lot of people recorded them from TV and up to 4 hours on a SP tape you could fit a few on just one tape. Kids recorded Saturday Morning TV and recorded Soaps and Sitcoms. Laserdisc didn't do any of that. It was a versatile machine don't get me wrong but it was very limited for a household. Yes, you got a better picture but when it's on a CRT TV then it's hardly noticeable. Nowadays it's a collectors market. I bought mine a few years ago and even then it cost me £1000 for the one I wanted. The discs are fairly inexpensive but finding a good disc can be a problem. You need to do a lot of research before you buy one because it could be a "Rotter" then all you have is a shiny frisbee. Should you get one? Well, that's up to you. Do you need one? No. There's better quality formats out there but to side with Laserdisc here there's been titles on Laserdisc that weren't released on DVD or Bluray and Laserdisc has a lot of features that other disc or tape formats never had and to me that's a selling point. Also, Laserdisc had some excellent audio encoding, far beyond the others even today so if you like great audio on your movies then yes get it but don't expect it to work miracles for you. It's a dated and discontinued format and it's mostly for collectors.

Me excited

I think there is an episode of "Regular Show" that focuses on Laser Disc technology.

The first thing I think of about the Laserdisc is Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here. Still, good overview of the Laserdisc's history! :D

Yes we

Picture quality be damned, anything I own on laserdisc, bluray, or 4k bluray I watch on laserdisc because the sound just sounds so much more dynamic and full like a movie theater. Examples include Apocalypse Now, Jurassic Park DTS, Casper DTS, Twister thx, Alien thx, The Frighteners DTS, the list goes on...

I know about the LaserDisc more than the other home video formats (U-Matic, Betamax, VHS, CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray & the Ultra HD Blu-ray).

I watched it was good

Laserdisc was later refined into the CD Video, or CDV, which is the combination of both CD and Laserdisc.

fun fact : Beethovens 9th was used to determine the standard of maximum playback time for CDs.

Sorry for the late comment, but that's what I call the best documentary of LaserDisc *EVER!!!!* You managed to get a lot of info for LaserDisc very accurately, which is very good!! However the image you've shown at 1:01 and 4:15 was not a LaserDisc, but an RCA CED disc, since I could tell by the visible grooves on it and the black vinyl appearance on it, and has the cartridge removed. But speaking of the RCA CED disc, you should make a documentary on it, since it was actually a cheap competitor to LaserDisc. And also, didn't you know that the CRV LaserDisc was used to record the BBC1 idents in the 1990s? That was interesting!! And another system called "Lucasfilm Editdroid", which was used in some Star Wars films, but edited footage recorded on the LaserDisc itself. But anyways, what a well done great documentary there CCG88 and keep up with the brilliant great work!!!! :D :) ;)

This was fantastic. But I really hope you've bought a player by now

The first picture of a disc someone is holding at the start of the video is a CED and not a laserdisc and it's not laser rot it's DISC ROT... lol... Great video

When ya' said AKAI, my mind went to MPC.

I wish I had Laserdiscs

It was a great technology for its time. I still have two machines and over 300 laser discs but ultimately it is not as good as modern tech such as 4K discs and related software such as Dolby Atmos and HDR. Good overview of an innovative technology.

This. Is. The. Best. Documentary. I. Have. Ever! SEEN!!! You and Jay have been working so hard to getting this done and I am very impressed of how it has come out. Jay did a great job at collaborating with you and over all the documentaries I have watched in my life this is the best one so far. Amazing work CCG88! I am looking forward to your other stuff as well. Like your next RLE! Amazing and extraordinary work, Cam and Jay! I'm impressed!

LaserDisc is my favorite.

CCG88 Can you do United Artists please?

u missed all the dragons lair, mad dog mcree stuff,, but nice effort lads,, pity ur not in australia id sell u a ld player cheap i have 8 of them

Great video but it's not laser rot, it's disc rot the laser isn't rotting, it's the disc.. And you list a problem with laserdisc as having to manually flip the disc but no they are automatic machines the play the B-side for you... I have one hehe... Keep up the fab work... Long live laserdisc

When it comes to audio the laserdisc with digital audio 5.1 to 6,1 channels of Dolby digital or dts they gave you the theatrical experience no compression no ne’er field mix just list to Jurassic park in dts or saving private Ryan in ac-3dolby digital and you will see why it got huge in the mid 1990s

The system itself is really interesting, but too bad it’s not that popular.

Laserdisc is still around as of 2023.

Ok

MCA OWNED UNIVERSAL! (1964?-1990)

7:01 wrong laser disc are no encoded with 1s and 0s they are a completely analog composite signal

LaserDisc (Pioneer) may put Netflix out of business

i was right

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I'm kinda disappointed by this documentary, it's really not as researched as your VHS one and it's quite obvious, you omitted a lot of info on the LD format, most notably the sound quality that you didn't even mentioned once in this video even though it's one the big reason why people are still collecting LDs, with the presence of dolby surround and the first appearance on home video of dolby digital and dts format, you also didn't talk about the HD MUSE LD wich were "HD" Laserdiscs that were basically running at a 1080i resolution. There is also the differences between CAV and CLV that you didn't explained fully and other stuff like the 16:9 discs etc...

Why do you keep showing us pictures of the RCA CED as if it was a laserdisc?

Jeez the music is too loud and distracting