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BUT... Pioneer put AC-3 (Dolby Digital) surround on LaserDiscs before DVDs came out. So LaserDiscs were the first video medium to offer digital sound at home.
by VerifiedReports 7mo ago
BUT... Pioneer put AC-3 (Dolby Digital) surround on LaserDiscs before DVDs came out. So LaserDiscs were the first video medium to offer digital sound at home.
And at that point, most players sold were combo players that could also play CDs.
And there was one more disc format: CD Video. It was a CD-sized digital single that also had a LaserDisc section for the (analog) music video. I have a couple; one is Bon Jovi.
- throwaway85825 7mo agoWas CD video compressed? I thought it existed at the same time as DVD but cheaper.
- yourusername 7mo agoThat's Video CD. It existed before DVD but survived alongside it (mainly in Asia) as a cheaper alternative.
- a-dub 7mo agono, apparently there was both. i was familiar with video cd which was mpeg-1 on a cd-rom (with some weird partitioning scheme). cd video is apparently a very obscure hybrid format with an analog video section and a digital audio section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Video
- VerifiedReports 7mo agoNo; it was analog LaserDisc video. I think "Video CD" was a flavor of CD-I, which was very popular in China and was used way, way beyond the introduction of DVD. Well into the 2000s, I think.