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Originally Posted by MRX37
CED had too many flaws.
Laser Discs were the size of frisbees
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Actually they were bigger! 12". Heck of a lot more materials to make a laserdisc than a DVD, essentially two 12" discs laminated together. Laserdiscs were pretty cool when they first came out. I worked on the Pioneer MCA DiscoVision PR7820 industrial players GM bought into for their dealers sales and training presentations. A lot of the appeal was the random access capability that tape formats couldn't do. You can find videos on YouTube of those old GM sales oriented laserdiscs. Mostly '79 thru '81-'82 GM vehicles. Seems a lot of those wound up as the "blank" side of a single or 3 sided album or movie and a lot of people have discovered those.