Katina
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Thu Aug-02-07 07:19 AM
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I vaguely remember a brief moment in time when there were movies on laser disks. Yesterday, I discovered that there were people who built whole media librarys out of them. All I could think as these people bought new DVDs to replace all the laser disks they had was that first, that I witnessed the death of the modern equivelent of the 8-track tape and second, these people have way too much money and can't think of anything else to spend it on.
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AllegroRondo
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Thu Aug-02-07 08:05 AM
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1. I had a roommate in the early 90s |
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who was a laser disk freak. He must have had hundreds of them. What really got me was that some of these movies needed to be split among several disks. Who wants to get up in the middle of a movie and change disks? Or flip them over?
I can only imagine he's kicking himself right now.
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Bassic
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Thu Aug-02-07 08:10 AM
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at the time, really long movies had to be split between two videotapes as well, so it would not have seemed perticularly bothersome to him at the time, I imagine.
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AllegroRondo
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Thu Aug-02-07 08:14 AM
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3. IIRC, each side was about 30 minutes |
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so a 2 hour film was about 2 disks, or 4 sides. A little tedious, but he did like the great picture quality.
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