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It wasn't a blow-out-the-doors commercial success, but it was successful enough that players and media were produced for 20+ years. It had broad adoption in Jap
by jinto36 4y ago
It wasn't a blow-out-the-doors commercial success, but it was successful enough that players and media were produced for 20+ years. It had broad adoption in Japan, where the random-access functionality was particularly useful for karaoke bars well before DVD and hard-drive based players.
Indeed the attempts to turn it into an interactive media platform, such as LaserActive, were rather less successful and much shorter-lived than Laserdisc as a home theater video distribution medium.
- Jaruzel 4y agoFollowing on from my comment which you replied to, I had over the years at least 50 discs and 2 different players. I loved the format, it was a good middle ground before DVDs finally took over the world. By importing Japanese discs, you could also get Dolby digital 5.1 sound. I even managed to get Phantom Menace on LaserDisc within a couple of weeks of the UK theatre premiere!