Laserdiscs (was: Video Clips)

On 10 Nov 2007 at 15:04, Jay West wrote: Jay, would you mind if I took the subject back OT? Laserdiscs hold a special place in my brain. I recall seeing a demo of the Pioneer Laserdisc player around 1980 or so in the local Macy's (that was when Macy's was the place to go to see the latest in consumer electronics). I went home with a bunch of brochures and sat calculating the capacity of a Laserdisc in bytes--my numbers were very exciting. I can remember saying to my wife that evening "Do you realize how this invention will transform information storage?". I wasn't the only one thinking this way, apparently. Here's a great story about rescuing the Beeb's 1986 Domesday Book project: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/ Do any of the cclist-ers in the UK still have any LV-ROMs and hardware? I'd be willing to wager that Tony does. :) For what it's worth, I was amazed that RCA had the courage to market their Videodisc kludge a year later in 1981. The technology seems to have died a mercifully early death. Cheers, Chuck