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fedex - 2011-06-07

I actually remember these


chumbucket - 2011-06-07

well, if you put it that way then ...yeah


Xenocide - 2011-06-07

Oh god, he's right! My life is a sham!


Xiphias - 2011-06-07

I don't know what I love about old commercials for out-dated technology


Chalkdust - 2011-06-07

It's like looking at advertisements for disproven Victorian medical devices


memedumpster - 2011-06-07

Wait, so you pop the disc in, it loads the movie into itself super fast, then you pop it out and watch the movie?

That doesn't seem likely.


BHWW - 2011-06-07

The videodiscs were inside a plastic case that could only be "removed" by the player itself when you slipped it in.

Or by someone with a screwdriver.


FABIO - 2011-06-07

A 1980 commercial is mentioning movies that came out after 1980?


Xenocide - 2011-06-07

Comes with free time travel disc! And Rocky II!


Hailey2006 - 2011-06-07

The copyright says 1981


StanleyPain - 2011-06-07

Oh wow..so THAT'S what those things are! I saw a shit ton of these things at a thrift store awhile back and couldn't figure out what the hell they were.


Spike Jonez - 2011-06-07

These are awesome because just like record albums, they could develop a skip. Best video glitch ever.


Old_Zircon - 2011-06-08

I knew someone whose entire senior year of film school in the late 80s was spent working with a broken videodisc player and a disc of Jane Fonda's Workout.


Jet Bin Fever - 2011-06-07

This design is really impractical, like a 1950s vision of watching movies at home in the distant future.


revdrew - 2011-06-07

I want my electronics to look like they're made out of fake wood.


Rudy - 2011-06-08

Everything at that time was made to blend into the fake wood paneling that covered every room in your home.


hammsangwich - 2011-06-07

Under 15 bucks? Take that, Blu-Ray!


hammsangwich - 2011-06-07

Actually 15 bucks in 1981 is now. :(


Stopheles - 2013-06-14

So "less than 0" in 1981 dollars...eesh...


Billy the Poet - 2011-08-24

My mind rebels at the existence of these things.


sasazuka - 2014-12-03

Didn't they have to time compress these discs for any movie over 2 hours because 2 hours was the maximum capacity?

The "advantage" of Laserdisc over the CAD discs from RCA was that, since (unless you had a really fancy player) you had to get up every hour (for CLV) or half-hour (for CAV) to flip the disk anyway, it really wasn't that big a deal to split any movie longer than 2 hours over multiple disks.


sasazuka - 2014-12-03

Also, five stars for AIRPLANE!, still one of my favourite movies, although I don't know if that's appropriate viewing material for the younger kid. I did enjoy AIRPLANE! myself as a 9-year old, but it was an edited-for-TV version without the boobie shots.


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