Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Laserdisc Appreciation Post

Laserdiscs are awesome. This should not need saying. But it does. It really really does.

The Best Things About Laserdiscs:

1. Their size: A laserdisc looks like a giant double sided DVD.

2. Flipping the disc: Each side of the Laserdisc only holds about an hour of video. Get excited.

3. The Name: LASERDISC. Enough said.

4. They were delightfully ahead of their time, and were around for way longer than you'd expect. 1978-2000?!

5. The untainted unmodified version of the Star Wars Original Trilogy is available on Laserdisc.

6. A laserdisc player is 8 times the size of a DVD player and weighs significantly more than you're expecting.

7. LASERROT. It's a problem, but it's a cool sounding problem.

8. Laserdisc cases are big, which means lots of room for epic cover art.

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