CD Video (Not Video CD) - when Videodiscs went gold
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Published 2018-02-01
Featuring an appearance from Kenny Everett.
Full 1988 Promo Disc Here: • CD Video PROMO 1988 - Presented by Ke...
Also if you're interested, back in 2015 I made a video about Laserdisc: • 2015 - Time to buy my first Laserdisc...
Laservision Brochure www.radios-tv.co.uk/philips-laservision/
A viewer has shared this link to a video promo for CDV - I’ve cueued it up to the section that explains how CDV (but also LaserDiscs) work. It’s surprisingly detailed - you might find it of interest. You’ll need to pan your balance to your right speaker for English. If you’re viewing it via an IOS device, this is possible using the accessibility controls in settings. • Video
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The BBC Domesday Project Laserdisc Players were connected to BBC Masters not Model B’s as erroneously stated (as well as IBM compatible PCs)
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Q) Can you play the video on a 12cm CD Video in a DVD or VCD machine or in a PC?
A) No, it's composite analog video whereas those play digital formats.
(There are some later Laserdisc machines that can play DVDs because they added in the MPEG2 decoders.).
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All Comments (21)
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Links and answers to any FAQs can be found in the video description text box.
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Disc rot makes me so sad :(
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Seriously, is there no format/tech/player/gadget that Techmoan isn't really well informed about ? A true gem of information + education online. Hats off, + a virtual pint for that man. Simply great.
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they hooked me with that Tears for Fears though.
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I remember the very mad customers we had when they found out that CDs would not play on DVD players, at first. It took the engineers almost a year to solve the reverse engineering problem, but they wouldn't let it happen a second time. When Blu Ray came out, they made sure that CDs & DVDs would also play.
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That BBC doomsday thing. Imagine the last ever broadcast being stored on a disc completely destroyed by disc rot.
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The 1987 mpeg1/cdi/vcd breakthrough was made by 2 coders in a garage, who proved to the host industry (who invented it) a cd could hold 72 minutes instead of 5 minutes of digital video via compression codec. You should make a video on those 2 guys !
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Ugh.... Laser Rot. Many of my 80's era laserdiscs came apart like this... It seems that they changed the laminating process in the 90's as my later discs have fared quite well.
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The fully rotted one is a creepypasta in the making.
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Sometimes I think I’ve gone as far as I could go in terms of obscure audio and video format knowledge but then a Techmoan video comes out and drags me down even deeper
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Just when you thought you were safe, along comes DISC ROT!!!
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We tend to think of laserdisc as a failed format but... it had a pretty good run. It outlasted that CD Video format. It was on market pretty much as long as VHS was (and that was a lot of years). Not bad, really
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Kind of reminds me of the time when "Enhanced CDs" were a thing. I had one for the Backstreet Boys and it let you play quiz games and watch terrible, low quality mpegs of some of their music videos.
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I knew it. I knew it, there lives a little man in the CD-drive!
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I'm 54 and I'm amazed at the amount of audio and video technology I never heard a word about. Is it because I'm Canadian and these products never made it to our market ? Anyways, thank you Techmoan for filling these voids.
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"Gone are the days of fuzzy records" *laughs at disc rot in vinyl*
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"Pining for the fjords." - nice pull. You always do great work.
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I remember in the 90s the VCD was very popular in the Middle East were it allowed u to play movies as well as playing pirated Famicom games, most VCD players had joysticks and came bundled with a CD full with ROMs of 8-bit games
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Discrot is scary. I have all orginal cds from the 80s and they will be the first to go. I have them ripped to files but thats not the point.
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Kenny Everett, a true techno-geek, and the ideal host for a promo video for a new video technology.
