Laserdiscs never fully caught on, as they were bulky and expensive. However, for collectors and movie buffs, it's hard to ...

The first laser videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then Pioneer, savior of ...

Back before DVDs, before Blu-ray, before MP3s, and before CDs, there were Laserdiscs. First released way back in 1978, the Laserdisc media format offered high-quality video and laid the foundation for ...

The final film released on LaserDisc in Japan was 'Tokyo Raiders', and, in North America, it was Martin Scorsese’s drama film 'Bringing out the Dead'.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Before DVDs and streaming, there was the ...

The first laser-videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then the Pioneer people ...

Buyers of a rare LaserDisc used to demonstrate an 80s-vintage film editing system have found it full of raw footage from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, graciously posting clips to a ...

Gav and Dan from The Slow Mo Guys. The two have shot various videos in slow motion in the past, and have already shot footage of an optical disc spinning at high speed until it breaks. Colorful CDs ...

I have seen the future, and you can too. The Digital Satellite System will set your TV aglow with picture and sound far superior to broadcast and cable TV, slightly better than C-band (big dish) ...

When the early-'80s home video game business began dwindling in the US, Atari looked to a Laserdisc arcade cabinet to boost its fortunes. That's according to Richard Taylor, who served as the film ...

Leonard Nimoy wasn’t only Spock on Star Trek. He was a celebrated stage actor and director of many successful films like Three Men and a Baby. But he would also willingly cash in on his good name as a ...

Here in the year 2025, it’s not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that’s just what happened last week with the ...