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Bonknuts

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old school LD system
« on: October 26, 2007, 02:06:45 PM »
http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/community/related/homesystems/halcyon/

 Keranu would probably get a kick out this since it's from the 80's :P
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Keranu

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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2007, 02:45:06 PM »
Yeah this thing looks badass, I posted a link for it before on another thread. What's really interesting was that this machine was originally going to use CEDs!
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Adding PCE console specific layer on top of that, makes for an interesting challenge (no, not a reference to Ys II).

Turbo D

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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2007, 03:29:13 PM »
laser disk was bad ass  8) Imagine how much data you could fit on a dual layer blue ray laser disk  :-k probably like a terrabyte or something,  :lol:
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SignOfZeta

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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2007, 05:04:34 PM »
I would say probably 100TB. The physical area of a 12" disc is enormous.
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Keranu

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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2007, 06:42:20 PM »
The bigger the better too! A small inch scratch on a laserdisc is nothing, a small inch scratch on CD is brutal. ;)
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Kitsunexus

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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2007, 08:00:15 PM »
Question, why was laserdisc never used as an audio format?
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Keranu

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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2007, 08:40:28 PM »
Quote from: Kitsunexus on October 26, 2007, 08:00:15 PM
Question, why was laserdisc never used as an audio format?
From what I understand, it sorta was. They had numerous albums released on 5 inch "CD Video".
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Kitsunexus

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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2007, 08:47:12 PM »
But no video, just pure audio, kinda like CD. Why wasn't that done?
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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2007, 08:56:35 PM »
The CD was derived from the Laserdisc, but specifically designed to be a portable music format. They came out around the same time, and both were made by the same people, so there was no reason for the laserdisc manufacturers to make a music-only laserdisc.

Also, the first laserdiscs actually had analog audio. They didn't adopt digital, CD style audio until later.
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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2007, 09:00:22 PM »
Quote from: guyjin on October 26, 2007, 08:56:35 PM
The CD was derived from the Laserdisc, but specifically designed to be a portable music format. They came out around the same time, and both were made by the same people, so there was no reason for the laserdisc manufacturers to make a music-only laserdisc.

Also, the first laserdiscs actually had analog audio. They didn't adopt digital, CD style audio until later.


Was it magnetic tape-based audio or analog optical audio like in the Optigan?
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Keranu

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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2007, 09:02:24 PM »
I don't really know about the technical stuff, but from what I understand there were "grooves" formed on the disc that the laser would pick up and read, kinda like a record.
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2007, 09:11:55 PM »
read the wikipedia entry on laserdiscs, that explains it better than i ever could.
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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2007, 10:14:30 PM »
Quote from: guyjin on October 26, 2007, 09:11:55 PM
read the wikipedia entry on laserdiscs, that explains it better than i ever could.

I'm shocked. LaserDiscs were invented long before I ever imagined. When I was a kid in the 80's I remember they were getting semi-popular as the rich-man's home video medium. I guess I always assumed they were invented around that time (early '80s).

According to Wikipedia, the first LaserDisc was created in 1958. I didn't even know they had lasers in 1958.

I remember when my uncle got a LaserDisc player... My family didn't even have a VCR yet; too expensive, and the battle between VHS and Betamax was raging. He also had a six-foot bigscreen projector TV. Every time we went over there we always watched movies since he basically had a theatre in his house and the biggest movie library known to man. Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2007, 09:19:20 AM »
Quote from: nat on October 26, 2007, 10:14:30 PM
Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.

Maybe not to you, but to me?


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nat

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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2007, 10:33:19 AM »
Quote from: Kitsunexus on October 27, 2007, 09:19:20 AM
Quote from: nat on October 26, 2007, 10:14:30 PM
Nowadays this setup wouldn't be half as impressive as it was back then.

Maybe not to you, but to me?


Jaw. To. Floor.

Well, it's not like I've got anything liks that. But it is a bit more commonplace today.
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