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My family had a laser disk... while we had some of the standards (Star Wars) there was one that we had that took the media to an interesting place. I want to s
by shagie 3y ago
My family had a laser disk... while we had some of the standards (Star Wars) there was one that we had that took the media to an interesting place. I want to say it was "Kids Disk" but I could be wrong.
It had many chapters that you could jump to with different things. Some of them were things like "learn to dance the Irish Jig". That chapter had music in one channel and instructions in another - so you could turn one of them off and get just the music, or music and instructions, or just instructions.
Another chapter was jokes (and another was puzzles) where you could step frame by frame (it used constant angular tracking if I recall right) and fit dozens of them in a few seconds of time.
It was one of the "I wish they did more with that format."
The Star Wars one I later used in a computer graphics project in college with another guy in the lab. We were able to get the frame by frame video capture of the Death Star blowing up and then use that to map to a user controlled rotating cube. The key thing was getting a frame by frame image capture since we didn't have the compute to be able to capture a live stream and capture off of VHS would have resulted in inconsistent durations for each frame.
Anyways... some memories of laser disks.
- happycube 3y agohttps://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/36715/OPA-64-619/First-National-Kidisc-The https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/36715/OPA-64-619/First-Nation... - I think there's a copy or few on Youtube.
- shagie 3y agoAhh yes - that is indeed the cover that I remember. And in finding a copy of it on YouTube... yes, that's it. However, it doesn't have the magic of it being on a laser disk. The flag game for example, I can't step by step through YouTube... nor turn off an audio channel from the Irish jig.