The Official Pioneer LaserActive Player thread-

[SignOfZeta]

A guy named Happycube on the LDDB forum has written software to decode the raw LD waveform from modified players or ones with the EFM port. He's isolated every aspect of the signal of movie LDs analog and digital as far as I know. I'm pretty sure getting the game data would be possible. You'd have to know exactly how it's snuck into the digital audio tracks but after that it should be easy.

[xelement5x]

Finally got my LD copy so I made a mashup of the two:



It's a smaller 8" LD with all the content on it, but the sleeve is pretty basic compared to the VHS which is kind of a shame.

[Necromancer]

I don't know, I kinda like the plain packaging.  It keeps the half science teacher / half 70s porn actor a secret until it's too late to decide you shouldn't watch it.

[pc_kwajalein]

I don't know, I kinda like the plain packaging.  It keeps the half science teacher / half 70s porn actor a secret until it's too late to decide you shouldn't watch it.

  Post of the week. 

[esteban]

I don't know, I kinda like the plain packaging.  It keeps the half science teacher / half 70s porn actor a secret until it's too late to decide you shouldn't watch it.

  Post of the week. 

Hahahhahajjaj.

Also, some of the scenes in this promo are genuinely disturbing...what alien implants are the dude's legs?

Disturbing.

[MrMarth]

Not my kind of thing, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

[TheClash603]

99.9% of the time I don't get jealous of other peoples' stuff they post about.  This is the 0.1% of the time I do.

[BigusSchmuck]

Makes you wonder how many 8" LDs were made.

[TheClash603]

Makes you wonder how many 8" LDs were made.

In Japan they seem pretty common actually, I never really see them in the states though.

[SignOfZeta]

There were shitloads in Japan. They'd give them away as preorder bonus for things even.

The last LDs made were 8"-ers for jukeboxes. They made those up until...I want to say at least 2006. There were tons of karaoke ones too.

[crazydean]

There were shitloads in Japan. They'd give them away as preorder bonus for things even.

The last LDs made were 8"-ers for jukeboxes. They made those up until...I want to say at least 2006. There were tons of karaoke ones too.

How does an LD jukebox work? Does it include video or is it just another way to store music?

[gojira1954]

I've only got one 8" LD, a promo from the jp twin peaks box
I don't miss my LA, all the 'games' I had were wack plus it is was a pretty poor LD player :/

[SignOfZeta]

There were shitloads in Japan. They'd give them away as preorder bonus for things even.

The last LDs made were 8"-ers for jukeboxes. They made those up until...I want to say at least 2006. There were tons of karaoke ones too.

How does an LD jukebox work? Does it include video or is it just another way to store music?

Yeah, they had a screen on them.

[xelement5x]

There were shitloads in Japan. They'd give them away as preorder bonus for things even.

The last LDs made were 8"-ers for jukeboxes. They made those up until...I want to say at least 2006. There were tons of karaoke ones too.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of the karaoke ones around.  I only have a couple myself (now including this one), and like the Zoom promo.  At least regular LDs can fit in boxes for records and stuff, these I just stick on the bookshelf.

[TheClash603]

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Time-gal-Arcade-machine-Laseractive/302632613457?hash=item46764f3651:g:9HUAAOSwgLlafNrY

This is a pretty nice custom cabinet, figured I'd share.