Amen, it's an incredible idea.

My family used to rent these way back in the day (player and movies). Totally forgot about them until now!

Seriously, it's a fucking analog lazerdisc. That's fucking amazing.

I found one once at a thrift store--a player and a stack of movies (no titles I was interested in). I thought it was some kind of laserdisk until I saw something on Youtube about it. Part of me wished I'd bought it, but I don't really have the space to accumulate obsolete tech in my apartment.

Laserdiscs are technically analog (the video, anyway) but it's still really cool that they basically had a video record.

yup

A long time ago I sent that to my boss and he said the part I linked to brought tears to his eyes.

https://youtu.be/DNGxDAiTxaQ?t=73

for contrast

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