Ready to watch another fun fact video? Then check out this awesome video- Hands On Awesome Tech: Making Solar Cells With a Particle Accelerator: kzitem.info/news/bejne/k4ieyZ2ksoCHi3o
@X2FileWrightonite
5 жыл бұрын
@Today I Found Out - Really like your channel. Vid's are well put together and informative. Just wanted to let you know that I believe the Image used @.30 Sec's in actually a CED removed from it's Caddy - and NOT a Laserdisc.
@mystmicro2551
3 жыл бұрын
disney plus: who is laser disc
@skilledcasual9443
3 жыл бұрын
so you said that beta max lost because of some bad decisions of sony wich is interesting because I heard that vhs won because the pornographic industry preffered vhs. probably both sides have a valid point here
@atomicphilosopher6143
3 жыл бұрын
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that a company once got RAY CHARLES to promote their movie-playing device because apparently even RAY CHARLES could see that amazing picture quality.
@WigWoo1
3 жыл бұрын
Who's Ray Charles?
@longfellow7271
3 жыл бұрын
This is absolute comedic genius.
@wnemethvargo284
3 жыл бұрын
@@WigWoo1 a blind musician
@atomicphilosopher6143
3 жыл бұрын
@@WigWoo1 - a blind piano player.
@valiroime
3 жыл бұрын
@@WigWoo1 and singer
@timothymclean
6 жыл бұрын
"Man, there's nothing on the radio...oh, hey, Nazi Radio is playing classical music!"
@amojak
6 жыл бұрын
He did nazi that coming.
@mcxhalo
6 жыл бұрын
I know right
@0hn0haha
6 жыл бұрын
#gasthepug
@0hn0haha
6 жыл бұрын
#countdankuladidnothingwrong
@BadGuyDennis
6 жыл бұрын
One of the reasons Nazi failed was because they play classical music only but not Nazis pop music.
@Poofiemus
6 жыл бұрын
The cheaper-in-Japan thing is EXACTLY how my family got our first couple laser disc players--my grandpa did a lot of business trips to Japan at the time. We had some good stuff on laser disc, and I watched those discs a LOT as a kid; there's still several films where I subconsciously tense up to go flip the disc in the middle!
@277southtombob
3 жыл бұрын
I knew a older guy when I was a kid in the 80’s that had a LaserDisk player and a ton of movies. It was really miles ahead of VHS and BetaMax that was it competition then. He was a big movie guy and had one of the rear projection big screen TVs. It was really an amazing experience for a home theater back then and honesty it’s only in recent years I’ve seen any real improvement over it.
@DenverStarkey
3 жыл бұрын
Define recent? Because blu-ray has been around now since 2006. 4k blu-ray since 2012.
@277southtombob
3 жыл бұрын
@@DenverStarkey Blu-ray really started showing up about 8-10 years ago, it’s fairly recent in comparison with the fact I went and watched Laserdisc movies at this guys house close to 40 years ago. He owned business that ended up making him wealthy and he loved movies so he was quick to get the latest things. I think he got his first Laserdisc player around 80’ and it really was a big improvement then.
@Thuazabi
3 жыл бұрын
@@DenverStarkeyas pointed out in this video, LaserDisc was around for nearly 30 years before Blu-ray - so, yeah, OP's statement is 100% correct. Additionally, early Blu-ray was barely an improvement over then-current DVD technology, and it took years before it lived up to its true potential. Also, 4K Blu-ray has basically been killed off at this point, which is sad because it really only started hitting its stride right as studios decided to prioritize streaming over physical media.
@DenverStarkey
3 жыл бұрын
@@Thuazabi they still produce 4K blu-ray so it's not dead.
@DenverStarkey
3 жыл бұрын
@@Thuazabi no his statement is not correct , sure you can say "more recent" times but not just "recent times" because 14 years is not freaking recent it's just more reccent than laser disc times. but he didn't say MORE recent , he said recent. 14 years is not recent.
@JoseGonzalez-rh3we
6 жыл бұрын
I still have my Pioneer laser disc player as well as the Star Wars Trilogy before the Lucas remakes.
@nolantolman5842
6 жыл бұрын
Same here. Star Wars Collectors edition THX remastered. No cheesy CG added.
@johncrafton8319
6 жыл бұрын
Best way to experience it. My old Star Wars tapes on BetaMax and VHS are long gone, but my LaserDiscs are still around.
@johncrafton8319
6 жыл бұрын
Wow. Eating magnetic tapes and plastic. Those dogs must've been pretty rowdy or damn hungry.
@WarhavenSC
6 жыл бұрын
Same here. The THX remastered laserdiscs. Also have THX-1138, as it's the only high def copy you can get that _also_ wasn't ruined by Lucas.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
6 жыл бұрын
@ Jose Gonzalez: Star Wars on Laserdisc was one of the biggest reasons for me to even start with Laserdisc. And it was totally worth the effort. Original colours, original cuts, original effects, original soundmixes. Pure original nostalgia.
@petersmit7570
6 жыл бұрын
I have been there in the 80's and remember that the real reasons why VHS won over laser disk were: 1. VHS made it possible to make illegal copies of movies by simply using a player and a recorder and 2. it was possible with VSH to record movies and music shown on TV.
@Revan_7even
3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents sent us a box of tapes each year of stuff recorded from satellite TV. Everything from Cartoon Network to Science Channel.
@cheekibreeki904
3 жыл бұрын
Well, VHS and Betamax were created for recording TV broadcast, so no surprises there.
@HeyPatch
3 жыл бұрын
I copied an entire audio book to VHS because I wanted to cancel my audible subscription. Took like 3 tapes but I regret nothing 😅
@room34
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly right. VHS was used to record programs off of TV way more than it was used to buy or rent prerecorded movies. (At least in my house.)
@MurderMostFowl
3 жыл бұрын
most of the “special features” and commentary tracks for DVDs came from their laserdisc releases. In fact sometimes the laserdisc edition had more than the DVD release
@Urayuss
3 жыл бұрын
Using 'about most of' in the same way one uses 'about all' was super jarring to read. That being said, thanks for the extra info! I had no idea.
@MurderMostFowl
3 жыл бұрын
@@Urayuss yeah sorry … that was actually a typo from my phone. Meant to just say “most”
@Urayuss
3 жыл бұрын
@@MurderMostFowl I didn't think of that possibility and that's embarrassing, lmao
@MurderMostFowl
3 жыл бұрын
@@Urayuss no worries, friend!
@Barbarapape
3 жыл бұрын
Laserdisc was and still is superior to DVD. The CD sound quality is far better than the compressed sound of DVD's plus it took DVD a few years to eliminate the digital glitches that made watching it very irritating.
@Joseph4499
6 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing a laser disk in first grade and thought it was the coolest thing.
@prodbyicha
6 жыл бұрын
I only learned about laserdisk from regular show
@jur4x
6 жыл бұрын
Techmoan had a video about laserdisc: kzitem.info/news/bejne/rIWo1Gaee6WKfno
@spybomber6499
6 жыл бұрын
C M 1945 called, they want their joke back.
@bigmike9128
6 жыл бұрын
I remember them from school.
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
8-track for lief
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
C M well he must not have done much rich, bitch is dead
@timpgod
3 жыл бұрын
I watched goldeneye on laser disc a few weeks ago, full Dolby digital audio with surround sound, and analog video. The picture on a giant 70" plasma, with amazing speakers... The experience was breathtaking. Whereas 4k is visually stunning and your eyes processing that goodness is primary, watching laser disc with digital audio is an aural orgasm. Suddenly, a movie I know well, made my brain process completely different, my eyes taking backseat to my ears, my experience was drastically new again. This is closer to the effect of an actual movie theater, at home. Truly amazing.
@AtlasReburdened
6 жыл бұрын
Digital storage blows my mind these days. I just got done salvaging the data off of a physically huge 250GB HDD that Ive had for a decade, and putting it all on a thumb drive with the same storage space and that by all measures could be called a thumbnail drive, and its not even state of the art. I'm pretty sure some tech company recently announced the upcoming release of the fabled 2TB SD card that has been promised for some time now. 2TB in less than the volume of a credit card, and the actual chip probably takes up no more than 20% of the internal space. That is insane. I remember first plugging a 1GB SD card into my camera and feeling like the king of all creation.
@uyuman1
6 жыл бұрын
The first computer in my house had 20GB HDD. All it was used for was documents, paint, pinball and solitaire.
@lucky43113
6 жыл бұрын
uyu man wow my 1st pc had 800mb hard drive
@AtlasReburdened
6 жыл бұрын
lucky43113 I miss our first computer. We had this game that came on legit floppy disk that seemed incredible for the time and my age, even though it was essentially just a non scrolling, PvP version of asteroids confined to a 5" square box. I'm still trying to track that game down. All I remember is that you could add or remove a sun in the center, add or remove gravity for it, and you could teleport to a random position on the screen by pressing the "s" key(i think) if you were the player on the left side of the keyboard. Other than that it was just down to flying around the 2d arena and shooting the other guy. Ring a bell for anyone?
@TheHighKirk
3 жыл бұрын
Started in IT in the early 80's. Seen it, done it, got the T-shirt.
@geodkyt
3 жыл бұрын
I remember being introduced to a digital camera as a *very* expensive, professional tool for use in a production environment, when I was doing R&D for an aerospace parts company. You had to sign for the camera every time you checked it out, and carry it in a hard case until you got where you were taking pictures, because of the proce.of the thing. You could fit *four* 1 megapixel JPGs on the floppy disk in the camera, and have high quality images of failures on your desk five minutes after deciding you wanted them... and you could mark them up and send them to any of the other engineers on the team (even those on other continents) by email immediately - mindblowing.
@davidbuschhorn6539
6 жыл бұрын
It lost because you couldn't record onto one which was half of what people used their VHS machines for. We'd still be using VHS if there weren't DVR machines. Also, halfway through the movie you had to get up and turn the damn disc over.
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
yup, that is accurate. DVD isn't really a descendant of laserdisc anyway
@TonyP9279
6 жыл бұрын
A few of the early DVDs were that way - I guess they dumped the same master tape on them. They were double-sided DVDs and halfway through the movie, I had to flip it over to watch the second half.
@TrineDaely
6 жыл бұрын
But you could drop or scratch them and it didn’t damage the movie. Too bad that’s not true of dvd or blu-ray.
@theautisticguitarist7560
6 жыл бұрын
I remember every point you'd need to flip the disc over in Return of the Jedi. It still feels weird to have the movie continue uninterrupted.
@jvanness90
6 жыл бұрын
David Buschhorn except for the fact that when average households adopted DVD players they didn’t also get dvr. Most households waited years after getting a DVD player to get dvr. Clearly the ability to record wasn’t the only thing holding the laserdisc back
@DenverStarkey
3 жыл бұрын
I remember them being so expensive that no one I knew could afford them.
@CaptainCocaine
6 жыл бұрын
A 14 minute video called "How LaserDisc Ultimately Won the Format Wars" that explains everything about LaserDisc except for HOW THEY WON THE FORMAT WARS
@thatguyontheright1
6 жыл бұрын
Factual Errors 0:30 pictured is a CED Which is a different technology all together. 7:04 pictured is a LV recorder which is incompatible with Laserdisc in general, the discs won't play in a Laserdisc player. Also, The tapes Sony discontinued in 2016 were DigiBeta/HD Beta tapes, not compatible with Betamax.
@Quacks0
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I noticed that first one, too. Also, Simon apparently has part of his facts somewhat incorrect --- check out 7:11 on this "Technology Connections" video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/tXmiuIaDf4xohqw
@Oystein87
5 жыл бұрын
Laser Vision and Laser Disc is the same thing.
@josephschultz3301
3 жыл бұрын
I think we can all agree that while LaserDisc failed, it was a brilliant innovation for its time and paved the way for DVD and Blu-ray. Good job, LaserDisc. Good job.
@Krshna28
3 жыл бұрын
The MUSE "HI-Vision" LaserDisc is (I think) the original HD format. Also, great video!
@clyth41
2 жыл бұрын
Correct...
@wwsvs
6 жыл бұрын
Pioneer did make a recordable LD unit for professionals. Also, there were two LD playback formats CAV (30min/side) and CLV (61min/side). LD was also the first format with AC3 Dolby Digital out. I still have a working CLD-909 LD player and maybe 350 discs. Oh.. LaserROT! That was thanks to 3M using a crap glue the glue the two sides together. The glue would break down and create a bubble between the 2 layers and cause what looked like a Peter Pan effect of snow/noise. Also, scratches were not a huge problem either. I used to rent discs that looked like someone used sandpaper on them. They still played just fine.
@picesdavid
6 жыл бұрын
Having worked in the LD field during this time, that simply isn't true. "Laser-Rot" was caused by impurities in the aluminum coating causing adhesion problems long term, not the glue.
@dave928
6 жыл бұрын
either way, it was a cancer.
@joels5150
3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Although VHS “won” the format war, Betamax remained the preferred format of the Armed Forces. My stepdad was in the Coast Guard during the 80s and 90s, and they continued to use Beta, long after you couldn’t rent Beta format at any local video stores anymore.
@eg1885
6 жыл бұрын
I picked up a fully working Sony Blu-Ray player laying on the street. The new format was so short lived because everyone who had a DVD collection didn't want to re-buy all their movies over again. As well as streaming services like Netflix becoming popular.
@shadowdragon992001
6 жыл бұрын
alright, that was a good ad at the end. whoever wrote it that way, bravo. thats how you write an ad.
@DavidGarcia-oi5nt
5 жыл бұрын
You know what Simon? For the clarity, morality and the integrity that you conduct your advertisements with I will become a Patreon supporter of your channel. I've been on a binge watching spree of your TIFO and biographics videos for about a month now. Thanks for the great work, keep it up and I'll support you for your efforts.
@jeffmcarthur5617
3 жыл бұрын
We had a laser disk player at my house growing up, and there are a couple of things that aren't quite right in this. First, regarding the durability of laser disks, they were actually MORE durable than tapes, not less. This is a common misconception because they look like records, and it's easy to assume they were flimsy. In fact, they had a durable coating over them that protected against scratches. In the introduction disk that came with the player, they even showed someone spreading ice cream over the top, then washing it in the sink, then playing it in the player to show how it could still play. (Us kids did worse to our disks and yes, they kept playing.) As for why they weren't as popular, it is true that the price was the primary issue. But another big issue was the fact that you could not record with a laser disk player. At the time, if you missed a show on TV, you didn't know when, or if you would be able to see it at a later time. You didn't get to choose when it was on. With a VHS machine you could record a show, even setting it up to record while you were out. With a laser disk player, you could only watch what you purchased.
@paulbrusuelas6706
3 жыл бұрын
Had a friend who’s dad had Jurassic Park on Laserdisc. It was incredible home entertainment experience for back in 1995.
@95blahblahhaha
3 жыл бұрын
I love these ", Today I Found Out' videos because they seem to be more straight forward with Simon more professional. DO NOT get me wrong I love all the Channels, then him opening up more something about these videos I seem to enjoy more
@HelloKittyFanMan.
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, some manufacturers DID make recordable optical discs as big as Laserdiscs, but they were much too expensive for the average consumer and focused sales on the professional market.
@michaeldickens1101
6 жыл бұрын
To those saying that Porn was what ultimately led to the success of VHS over Betamax, it was only rumor There actually was porn on Betamax, not in high numbers, but it did exist, it was true that Sony refused to mass produce porn on their format, but that didn’t mean that it couldn’t or didn’t happen third party (of which it did), any person can get multiple Betamax decks and run a mass duplication system (say get 100 Betamax decks, loop the modulators into each other daisy chained, tune them all to channel 3, cover the remote sensor on deck 1, then duplicate 99 other copies at once by pressing record on the remote) There were two reasons why Betamax lost, and porn wasn’t one of them, it was cost and record time VHS was MUCH cheaper than Beta (Beta was at least $500 more than VHS) Also, VHS could record for twice as long than Betamax (I think Beta was capped at 2hrs while VHS could record for 4 to 6hrs) Since you could record for longer and the decks and tapes were cheaper on VHS, that was the final nail in the coffin for Betamax... Not porn
@kenabi
3 жыл бұрын
ahh but think about how much porn one could pirate from video stores on each platform before macrovision came out. vhs wins. .. i kid. mostly.
@eddiespaghetti54321
3 жыл бұрын
Also Sony removed Beta 1 speed at some point in the early 80s so it ended up being about the same quality as VHS anyway. Then when S-VHS came out, it blew Beta out of the water completely.
@reh3884
3 жыл бұрын
The porn thing is a myth.
@TheRealPonderingPuffin
3 жыл бұрын
Have a top of the line, Pioneer LaserDisc player, and this is so damned true. Please bring it back.
@Necrom26
6 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: Who was the first person to coin the phrase "coin the phrase"?
@insertnamehere001
6 жыл бұрын
Probably the Romans, who would put words on the coins along with the Emperor's face.
@davelowe1977
6 жыл бұрын
insertnamehere001 Reminds me of the question: what did the guy designing the drawing board go back to when the first version didn't work? Fortunately there is an answer: square one.
@charlesajones77
6 жыл бұрын
Heh, when I first read that I said to myself "Square what?"
@MAGGOT_VOMIT
4 жыл бұрын
_I don't think that phrase was ever coined._
@marksadler4104
3 жыл бұрын
When Jack Mullins presented the tape recorder to Bing Crosby, Bing got another and gave it to his friend Les Paul who was known to experiment with electronics and electric guitars. Les saw the possibility of adding another recording head which lead to Multi track recording which is the method music is still recorded today, be it digitally. Jack Mullins company was to become Ampex.
@3gunslingers
6 жыл бұрын
Tunnel bear... If something is free, you are the product sold.
@Lyze
6 жыл бұрын
As a kid I remember my cousins had a laserdisc player with one disc and we were never allowed to watch it. It wasn't even connected to the TV, the player was in a cabinet gathering dust. Good investment.
@michaelparker2449
6 жыл бұрын
I bought a non working Pioneer CLD-S315 from a car boot sale for £20 then after a few minor repairs sold it less than a week later for £130.
@_Super_Hans_
6 жыл бұрын
Profit on that
@rippspeck
6 жыл бұрын
Good business.
@speedy_brennan
3 жыл бұрын
I just had a conversation yesterday about this saying only real reason LaserDisc wasn't used was because of it's cost. Getting on market first also really helps.
@derekbastinck811
6 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say that this is one of the most entertaining and informative channels I watch. Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos
@TodayIFoundOut
6 жыл бұрын
Derek Bastinck Thanks!
@TheRealSlimSteve
3 жыл бұрын
VHS: F**k you laser disk, loser. DVD: Dad, hold my beer.
@ez45
6 жыл бұрын
Lasers were just invented in 1960. That part of the popular story is a little off. Technology Connections has a nice segment on this.
@littledarkstranger8111
6 жыл бұрын
That was one slick segway into the ad at the end, props to whoever scripted that!
@raychang8648
6 жыл бұрын
Somewhere I still have the first Lord of The Rings movie on DVD and it was double layer. It actually pauses for a second or two when it switches layers. Also, I have a few double-sided DVDs.
@hazelhazelton1346
6 жыл бұрын
Somewhere I still have the Fellowship of the Ring on VHS. :p
@AkshaySinghJamwal
6 жыл бұрын
I have LOTR: Fellowship on a double-sided DVD.
@Moonbeam143
6 жыл бұрын
I have "UHF" on the double sided DVD.
@WickedWonder1979
6 жыл бұрын
Moonbeam I told you, that feature is ON THE OTHER SIDE!
@Moonbeam143
6 жыл бұрын
WickedWonder1979 That was the best thing on the menu.
@hoangtran4736
6 жыл бұрын
the format wars tldr: first there were analog formats stored on magnetic tapes and then a while later came magnetic disks. some time later optical discs came along. after, everyone decided to make the switch to digital. finally the internet came along and utterly wrecked everything in its way.
@hamedshah2363
6 жыл бұрын
Today I found out why Simon is bald.
@iz723
6 жыл бұрын
?
@Samm815
6 жыл бұрын
"Bald! Bald! Bald! My Eyes!"
@the123king
6 жыл бұрын
i read that in his voice
@UncleJackOnline
6 жыл бұрын
only on the top of his head
@KyoushaPumpItUp
6 жыл бұрын
Simon is bald because he did these daily for 3 years: 1. 100 push-ups 2. 100 sit-ups 3. 100 squats 4. 10 km running
@craigdavidson5613
3 жыл бұрын
Consider myself lucky. I once found an NTSC Panasonic Laserdisc player for $60AU from a local Charity Shop. I contacted them later about it, and they said they sold it. Thankfully a gut instinct told me to take some money with me a couple of weeks later, because they still had it there, despite what they said earlier. So I immediately purchased it. Thankfully you can get the laserdiscs on the second hand market for cheap. And let me tell you, it's worth it. That and the fact I found that a remote control from a similar player works perfectly on this one. So I'm lucky with that!
@bxdanny
6 жыл бұрын
@11:06 "Laser VHS players that could read the tape without the head needing to physically contact it". I don't think that ever existed. How would a laser "see" the magnetization of the tape?
@tomservo5007
6 жыл бұрын
I call bullshit on Simon's 'fact'. @Simon, source please ?
@TodayIFoundOut
6 жыл бұрын
+Dan Schwartz Verbal typo from having said "laser" a bagillion times. It was supposed to be "later":. "especially with later VHS players that could read the tape without the head needing to physically contact it."
@Dennis-ns1yx
6 жыл бұрын
Magic, what else did you thought?
@RevRaptor898
6 жыл бұрын
To be fair anyone with a working brain realized it was just a verbal slip up. You would have to be really dim to think he was actually claiming laser vhs was a thing :p
@KRAFTWERK2K6
6 жыл бұрын
@ Dan Schwartz: never heard of Holotape? ;)
@deatheternal720
4 жыл бұрын
I love Pioneer's DJ equipment. I own DJRX2s. Best purchase ever
@NR23derek
6 жыл бұрын
VHS tape heads were always in direct contact with the tape, there's no way to avoid that! I'm surprised you claim later machines iddn't need to do that? But the real reason VHS won the war was because you can record on it, Laser disc was play only. Time shifting TV programmes was the main reason people bought a video, at least here in the UK
@battleangel5595
3 жыл бұрын
Well... Anders Enger Jensen's tune DiscoVision is a reality... Mind. Freaking. Blown. Many thanks for this tidbit of history! And this from a nerd who bought a LaserDisc player for nothing but anime. And who's father noticed the clarity of the format to make my lowly Panasonic player a center of attraction for the family's entertainment needs. Bought my player at $60 USD. Bought anime LaserDiscs. Local BlockBuster rented LaserDiscs. My precious was the center of our entertainment center's focus for at least four years. Once my father found out about my LD gem he rented a few discs... He was hooked. Even now the format is magical.
@edwardecl
6 жыл бұрын
Laserdisc was probably better quality than DVD in most cases due to the video not being encoded so no compression artifacts. Also things like Dolby Digital (AC3) and DTS which was used in DVD was first used on laserdisc. So it was pretty much the only way to get decent multi-channel audio before DVD. Also a few films not only did you have to swap sides you had to swap discs.
@AtlasReburdened
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but during the time of LD's prevalence we didn't exactly have TVs that would display the difference between LD and original DVD to any noticeable extent. I would love to see them played side by side on a state of the art TV. I bet it's all kinds of noticeable now.
@logicalfundy
6 жыл бұрын
The quality of DVDs was acceptable enough for most people, and Bluray (and now "Ultra HD Blu-ray") would continue to improve the format. We're also entering an era where streaming video is becoming more acceptable as internet speeds continue to rise. Indeed, this KZitem video is in 1080p @ 60 fps, which is higher quality than the DVD format can normally handle. . . . Although oddly enough, the DVD format is long from dead. Walmart still sells DVD players (although I don't see the point in purchasing them anymore), and movies are still released in the DVD format. I think some people are under the (mistaken) impression that a Bluray player won't play DVDs, so they want to buy DVD players (because they have a DVD collection), and when they do that they are stuck not being able to play Blurays. It's a bit of an unfounded fear holding back adoption of Bluray players, even in an era where the price of a player is rather minimal.
@lartrak
6 жыл бұрын
Generally, properly encoded DVDs will look better than properly made LDs. I can personally verify this, owning a few hundred movies on LD with a good Pioneer player, and having seen DVDs of the same films. They both have artifacts - LD has analog artifacts and noise and other issues, DVD can have compression artifacts. But, DVD has better resolved detail and is higher resolution (at least, as best as resolution can be compared when looking at analog VS digital). However, the best looking LDs are definitely in the same ballpark as DVDs, which is really impressive when you consider it's 17 years older as a format. .
@AtlasReburdened
6 жыл бұрын
lartrak Interesting and very cool, thanks for the input.
@Oystein87
5 жыл бұрын
Nope... Most DVDs had better quality. But there where a few LD videos that was just as good and even a little better than DVD. But not many
@mrchubbyfella9421
6 жыл бұрын
This is consistently one of the best channels on KZitem
@lewiskelly14
6 жыл бұрын
"And just before we get started, I just want to say" *skips 30 seconds*
@balachandar662
6 жыл бұрын
Ya God bless skip button! :)
@mikelonas4508
6 жыл бұрын
just watch the ad
@red_doggo7219
6 жыл бұрын
Just think about countries where information like this is illegal, people there would need a VPN.
@LunamariaHawke
6 жыл бұрын
Neither of us paid to watch this video, however making such video requires funds which TIFO gets from advertisement.
@CyberGenesis1
6 жыл бұрын
If they need a VPN to view the info, how'd they get to see the ad? Catch 22
@Rich.Aardvark
2 жыл бұрын
I love it when people say "Moreover" it makes them sound important and informative when somone feels they have given tmi
@Ondrix
6 жыл бұрын
CDs and DVDs winning the format war doesn't mean LD actually won because they are it's "offspring". That would be like me having a child that went on to win a gold medal during the Olympics in a sport that I did well in during college and claiming it was really me that won.
@NJ-wb1cz
6 жыл бұрын
Not exactly. LD, CD, DVD were made by the same company - Philips, with some collaborators in case of later formats. VHS were made by JVC. It's more like saying Word won the office format war, even though there are multiple incompatible versions of Word files.
@cristianverdugogalaz8725
6 жыл бұрын
i mean not like some parents don't do that at all
@UTubeHandlesSuck
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, lately Today I Found Out seems to be...slipping a bit.
@Ondrix
6 жыл бұрын
Angelofthursday 99 No, it's not. Evolution is a long, slow, process that takes MANY generations. In the case of LD to CD/DVD it was literally a single "generation" from the analog disc format to digital. So my parent to child analogy makes perfect sense........ while your evolution analogy doesn't. Because as far as I'm aware there were no other disc formats between the analog LD and the digital CDs and DVDs.
@Ondrix
6 жыл бұрын
Angelofthursday 99 No, it doesn't........ irrelevant of you being "pretty sure" that it does. Even if you were to use the examples of either the moths or maggots my point still stands. Their change only SEEMED quick (relatively speaking) due to their short life spans and fast breeding. But that's beside the point. It's not as if either species changed immediately over a single generation....... it took MANY successive generations for the changes to occur. Your analogy using various homo species to link VHS/BETA to LD/CD/DVD also doesn't fit either. Tape storage is completely different from optical disk storage and not some distant relative. It's closer to your computer's hard drive than it is to any optical disk. There weren't multiple generations of similar, yet slightly different, disk storage mediums between LD and CD/DVD. So your evolution analogy does NOT work. There was the "parent" LD analog format and then the "child" CD/DVD format...... that's it.
@chaospoet
3 жыл бұрын
I knew ONE person who had one in the 90s. I remember watching Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 and my mind being blown at how much better they looked and sounded than on VHS.
@Idiotatwork
6 жыл бұрын
Hehe like the ad at end about internet security but the captions translate it to transmitting your data through talaban network :) very secure that sounds
@Rogue_Shad0w
6 жыл бұрын
That made my day
@favoritemustard3542
5 жыл бұрын
Today, the captions cut off "at the end" where he's talking about betamax availability in 2016... :(
@moreaufamily437
5 жыл бұрын
I bought my Pioneer laserdisc player in the 1990s when it was the only format that could be used to watch anime from Japan. DVD has region encoding and not a lot of anime was released on VHS. The one real advantage the format had that no other format is capable of is that it was truly a world format. There was one more thing too, in many ways laser disc was like the old vinyl albums of the 60s and 70s with inserts, extra materials, etc. Opening a new laser disc was always going to be a treat to see what it came with. This was very true of anime releases from Japan that came with booklets, toys, animation cels, etc. When the format started to die off was the golden years of snapping up fantastic releases such as the 'original' original Star Wars and complete series on discs like Star Trek for example. These days I still keep around an older but still completely functioning lcd TV that still has the correct input for the laserdisc and video tape so that I can enjoy movies that are impossible to see anywhere else but in my laserdisc collection.
@johnsmith-qn2gd
6 жыл бұрын
Of all the celebrities there were in the 70s, why choose Ray Charles to pitch VIDEO entrateinement systems?
@_Super_Hans_
6 жыл бұрын
Why choose Bill Cosby to advertise New Coke?
@gecafe
6 жыл бұрын
He was pitching the audio quality of Laserdisc, so it makes perfect sense
@filanfyretracker
6 жыл бұрын
The Cosby Show. In the 1980s this show's popularity at its peak for perspective would make a show like Survivor or American Idol at their peaks look like public access cable.
@JonGee420
3 жыл бұрын
Simon....Do you remember the show Beyond Tomorrow? I remember seeing an episode where one of the presenters held up a CD and said "In the near future your movies will be on these." This was back in the early 90's. The Discovery Channel used to be awesome back in the day.
@pokepress
6 жыл бұрын
Laserdisc is one of the best examples of a failed technology leading to a successful one.
@michaeldickens1101
6 жыл бұрын
pokepress Truth is LaserDisc/DiscoVision never lost, it actually won What this video doesn’t mention is that LaserDisc never competed with VHS/Betamax, it competed with RCA Selectavision’s CED Actually, LaserDisc had a pretty good run, it lasted from the 70’s/80’s till past the Millennium (around 2002), roughly 30 to 40 years or so isn’t that bad CED on the other hand (Capacitance Electronic Disc), which was essentially a movie on a vinyl record (what is really shown at 0:30 mistaken as a LaserDisc), is what failed the format war
@Edubarca46
5 жыл бұрын
Laserdisc didn't fail. If it had failed, it wouldn't have lasted for more than 30 years and make available more than 25.000 titles. RCA CED video disc lasted only about 5 years. THAT was a failure!! There is no eternal format except perhaps Vinyl Lps.
@Oystein87
5 жыл бұрын
@@michaeldickens1101 uhm.. Laserdisc did in fact never win.. Only a small % of people had it and it was too expencive. So it was not even close. But it di lead to the DVD that actually eas a huge success. And LD did actually compete with VHS later on in VHS history. But VHS stayed on top until DVD came
@Oystein87
5 жыл бұрын
@@Edubarca46 LD did fail but not as much as other formats. Very few users had LD and people did rather use VHS until DVD came...
@michaeldickens1101
5 жыл бұрын
Øystein You’re looking at it the wrong way, “didn’t sell very well” doesn’t equal “it failed”, Laserdiscs still sold, you could still buy/rent Laserdiscs up till the millennium, if it actually failed, that wouldn’t have happened Take a look at the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format war, despite HD-DVD being the superior format, it lost to Blu-Ray due to more studios backing it, once HD-DVD lost, they ceased production of the format immediately (same went with CED when it lost to Laserdisc), the Blu-Ray format lasts to this day with 4K Blu-Rays, Laserdisc had a very long run if you count DiscoVision, what Laserdisc was called before it was called Laserdisc And no, Laserdisc and VHS did not compete with each other, they shared the market, they were unrelated technologies, VHS didn’t start out cheap at first, and the main reason most people went with VHS (alongside cost) was you could record with VHS, Laserdisc was an Optical ROM format (like CD and DVD), they couldn’t be recorded on Saying Laserdisc and VHS competed against each other is like saying D-Theater (HD VHS) competed with Blu-Ray and lost, when D-Theater technically never competed against Blu-Ray to begin with
@SterlingSigurdsen
3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents had a videodisc player that used vinyl discs like old records. It came in a plastic holder and you put one side in pull it out and flip it to the other side. Was really cool.
@carterjohnson25
6 жыл бұрын
Going to give you credit for your TunnelBear plug. Way better than most cheesy ones but other KZitemrs do
@themovietheatre
6 жыл бұрын
0:30 that disc is an RCA Videodisc.
@themovietheatre
6 жыл бұрын
Not a laserdisc.
@michaeldickens1101
6 жыл бұрын
You mean CED or Capacitance Electronic Disc
@OM19_MO79
6 жыл бұрын
I guess they didn't find out that that day.
@widdowson91
5 жыл бұрын
But, when VCR machines were first released, they cost more than LaserDisc players. The cost didn't become an issue until later, when production of VCR machines dropped. VCR machines were so mass produced by the mid-80's that prices became super low, but LaserDisc never had that chance.
@Beamer1969
6 жыл бұрын
How LaserDisc Ultimately Won the Format Wars. Answer it did not but it get points for it's replacement doing it.
@DavidSusiloUnscripted
6 жыл бұрын
Bob Wright in Asia LD won the format war. There were more LD rental stores than VHS and Betamax combined.
@BigDaddyWes
6 жыл бұрын
A DVD or CD is just a digital laserdisc. It's the same technology, just different information being read.
@FredrickTesla
6 жыл бұрын
If it was a LD, it would be half a pound and huge. It's called a DVD because it has drastically different properties than a LD. We don't call a motorcycle a bicycle for a reason, same reason here.
@rippspeck
6 жыл бұрын
I call all of them vinyl records. Sue me.
@TheNewFakk28
5 жыл бұрын
@@FredrickTesla Interestingly, Laserdiscs were just huge versions of CD's. In fact that is where the CD came from. The Compact Disc was made basically from the idea of the unused 650MB of data that a LaserDisc has, which is at the start of every LaserDisc made. That area of the LaserDisc was kept empty for the reason of game data, in case videogames arose that needed it for future LaserDisc games, much like the Pioneer LaserActive. They took that unused data area, and just said screw it, and made CD's from that area of the disc, and sold it for music purposes, which led to being used for games and other things down the line. NOTE: (They didn't take cut out portions of the LD's, they just used the idea of "what can we do with that size of data that we don't even use on the LaserDiscs? Oh, perhaps it can be used as a small version of a LaserDisc and just put music on it!") DVD's are basically the same as CD's, just the laser that reads them is much thinner in size, which allows the data to be burned onto the disc at a much more compressed/thinner rate, leading to the end result of the data size being a bit larger than the Compact Disc, and the same goes for DL-DVD's, HD-DVD's, 25GB Blu-Ray disc's and then ultimately what we all use now, the market leader, 50GB Blu-Ray DL discs. The upcoming new format of Blu-Ray discs that hold 100+GB of data which the PS5 is being equipped with is typically the same thing, just a thinner laser reading the disc, and the data on the disc being burned onto thinner layers. Blu-Ray is better than HD-DVD's, whcih is better than DVD's and CD's in that not only does it hold more data, it has a protective layer of coating to protect it from scratches, similar to LaserDiscs. LaserDiscs can have a TON of scratches and still playback without audio skips and no degrade in picture quality. I own a HEAVILY used, and HEAVILY scratched up LaserDisc which was a Sample Reference Disc from 1990, and I got it for $2 from a GoodWill store, and I put it in my DVL-H9 player, and the disc plays as if it were brand new still, I was amazed. That is one of the amazing things about LD's, is that as long as they do not get LD Rot, and are made in Japan, (most LD Rot free discs were made there), you can watch it 1 million times, and the quality will always be the same. Also, the audio quality of a LaserDisc is double the quality of DVD's for the 44Khz PCM, DTS, and AC-3, (Dolby Digital), soundtracks, coming very close to that of Blu-Ray discs that utilize uncompressed 48Khz PCM, Dolby Digital, and DTS-HD 5.1/6.1 Audio tracks. In fact the only DVD's I have seen that match the LD's audio quality were rare copies only sold in Japan, and even then those DVD's might have had near the same audio quality, but with proper equipment such as an upscaler and a proper 3D combfilter, the LAserDiscs can look far superior to that of a compressed DVD. I use to show people my DVD of the movie "The Beach" side by side with my LaserDisc copy of "The Beach", and people were amazed at how nice the uncompressed quality of the LAserDisc was on that movie, and as for Anime, the LAserDisc is untouched to this very day, and sports original audio soundtracks that newer DVD's and BluRays no longer have, making them the go-to discs for Japanese Animation. There are many amazing things about LaserDiscs, and without them there would be no CD's, DVD's, CDV's, HD-DVD's, Blu-Ray's (2D, 3D, and 4K) or the upcoming new Blu-Ray format for the next gen console everyone will be getting, the PlayStation 5! LaserDisc paved the way to our now Digital Blu-Ray disc of the future, and in some ways is still a very relevant format in many people's homes!
@SeanBZA
6 жыл бұрын
VHS also had a very important thing in being almost royalty free, so there was less cost for the media, and unlike Beta and LD there was very little cost to make a unit as you did not have to pay a premium for the royalties per unit or per tape. Biggest killer was no recording ability, unlike tape, using the same media versus having special media. Don't forget the VHS and Beta ( plus V2000, another tape format) relied heavily on advances in tape, spurred by the computer revolution, which demanded a chrome tape formula for data density in tape backup units. Older ferrite formulas needed too high a write current for high resolution video to record well, but the advances in tape gave the ability to get good high frequency recording on relatively slow moving tape.
@brokeneyes6615
6 жыл бұрын
Why did VHS win the format war? Porn. Lots and lots of porn.
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
it didn't win, neither did laserdisc. they are both dead.
@brokeneyes6615
6 жыл бұрын
garet claborn yeah the internet is the ultimate winner despite what the Republicans do but my point is both VHS AND BLU-Ray won their respective wars because the porn industry sided with those respective formats. One was for length, the other financial security due to its security features... there’s a ironic joke in that... my point is the porn industry was the deciding factor for those respective format wars which Simon kinda alluded too with the cost of manufacturing differences due to the growing consumption of that particular media (ie porn industry sided with one format over the other which prompted consumers of that entertainment to favor said media, causing the cost of manufacturing center media to go down which ultimately allowed that format to win it’s war). Never underestimate the power of porn!
@TrineDaely
6 жыл бұрын
And the machines and tapes were far cheaper.
@thatguyontheright1
6 жыл бұрын
Wrong actually. Porn isn't the deciding factor as we are lead to believe as there is no evidence of such. The consumer market wanted to record live TV in the 70s, 80s, and even the 90s. Betamax when it started had a record time of 30 minutes per tape in BI mode, and 60 minutes in BII mode. VHS when it started was 2hours in SP. Betamax never got more than than 4 hours per tape even in BIII mode, but 10 Hour VHS tapes (In EP mode) were released. Combined with the fact that Sony was tight when it came to licensing the Betamax technology, so prices were high for Betamax decks, while VHS deck makers were numerous and had price wars which brought prices down.
@WakenerOne
6 жыл бұрын
Minor correction, TGOTR. When VHS started, recording time was 1 hour in SP. My science fiction club in high school used to make movies on VHS in 1979, and that was the longest VHS tape available. It cost the club $22.
@PatriciaCross
6 жыл бұрын
Part of the beauty and longevity of Laserdisc was its ability to exist side by side its competition. The sorts of people who like LD had no problems also owning a VCR. They would use the VCR for its usual expected use of recording from the TV or even creating backup copies of its LD films; but use the LD player for actually watching movies in high quality and with the advanced search features. This is the reason they never bothered putting a record feature on LD players; everyone had VCRs for that and the VCR was not actually competition. I still use my LD player because I find the format has done the best at preserving film grain and such. Modern pressings tend to digitally remove that. It does make for a nicer image; but erases a lot of film history. Meanwhile VHS resolution is to low for stuff like that to show up at all.
@Zoomy
6 жыл бұрын
That's a very clickbaity title given the conclusion is "LaserDisc died a death, but technologies developed decades later were better than tech released at the same time as LaserDisc so therefore it won" which is just so damn tenuous at best. I actually feel kind of deceived, tricked even, and I hope this isn't an omen for the route this channel will take in the future.
@dave928
6 жыл бұрын
yeah, except he added the statement "it's offspring soon avenged it's parents by killing VHS". still... tricky word use.
@RealBadGaming52
6 жыл бұрын
sham rally, we really are held backwards, the 80s should have been more like the 2000s
@winner1750
6 жыл бұрын
I'm sad he didn't do the tunnelbear ad where he says: Do you like tunnels? Do you like bears? Well, you'll love tunnelbear!
@TheHandOfFear
6 жыл бұрын
That's a CED disc at 0:32, not a LaserDisc. This video is not off to a good start.
@michaeldickens1101
6 жыл бұрын
TheHandOfFear Wow, nice catch, I first thought it was an off color or off lit Laserdiscs, after a closer inspection, you’re right, it is a CED outside it’s caddy
@FredrickTesla
6 жыл бұрын
You're right to be scrutinous. This is the same group of people that claim salt intake doesn't raise your blood pressure just because there's no dedicated studies showing that it does. Never mind that sodium concentration is the most common way of explaining Tonicity, never mind that they are implying that one of the basic elements of fluid dynamics just doesn't work in the human body, screw all that basic elementary school science, they've got trendy revisionism on their side.
@MAGGOT_VOMIT
4 жыл бұрын
_Umm.............you knew that anyway and we don't care._
@TheHandOfFear
3 жыл бұрын
@@JustaSimplefact No, it’s not that well researched (especially not “objectively” so). Something I think is far more likely the cause of the insert of the CED rather than your conspiratorial idea that someone tricked him into using it. As for my own video? There are already good “history of LaserDisc” videos on KZitem even if this one isn’t. Also, if you’re going to rant about the need to be “well researched” you might want to do a basic google search regarding some terms you misused in your posts. Start with “greenscreen.”
@JustaSimplefact
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheHandOfFear Why is it not well researched? It was a ton of information that was coherent and correct. You can just watch it to know that. Because one video editor on the team, uses an incorrect image, one time, the entire video is not well researched. Screw off. Anybody not know what I meant green-screen? Didn't think so.
@jpofgwynedd3878
6 жыл бұрын
Sony invented a video cassette. The head of the company wanted it smaller. It was this second cassette format which was Betamax. The first was VHS. JVC went to Sony for a license, didn't like the high cost and bid for VHS. JVC then undercut the Sony licensing fees, so more manufacturers used their format, as did many 'own brand' marketers. Furthermore, in various markets, VHS was more readily available as a rental unit, rather than an expensive purchase. In the unit rental shops were also libraries of VHS movies to rent for few days. Anecdotal, I know: but when I was in the business, both a Sony and a JVC rep separately told me basically the same story at the end of the 80s. So now you know the uk story of the format war on tape. Possibly.
@Barbarapape
3 жыл бұрын
There is one statement that i strongly disagree with. The CD sound quality of Laserdisc was and still is far superior to the compressed sound of DVD's Also the Video quality of early DVD's and the players was not great, suffering from digital artefacts due to poor encoding of the discs from the master film, it took a few years before this improved, the sound from DVD's is still not upto that of Lasediscs. In my opionion DVD's should never have been made, the industry should have kept Laserdisc and VHS going until the Blu-Ray format was developed.
@daltigoth3970
3 жыл бұрын
Considering that most people are using the built-in speaker on a TV for sound, the difference in sound quality between a DVD and a LaserDisc is basically nil, as both are limited by the quality of the speaker. Digital artefacts were not necessarily the result of poor encoding (though that was a factor in some cases), as artefacts could also occur due to using low quality video cables or routing the connection through a VCR, amp or other device that introduced electrical interference (Edit - all of the above were fairly commonplace at the time DVD players were first introduced - many households had TVs that only supported coaxial or RCA in, so they had to route the connection through another device that used a coaxial/RCA cable to the TV. Those that did have RGB inputs may have been using low-quality cables that had poor shielding because good cables were often significantly more expensive. As newer TVs commonly had multiple input for RGB and later HDMI, routing video through VCRs and video switches became less commonplace) If DVD hadn't been made, Blu-Ray might not have been either, as Blu-Ray came about as a direct result of needing increased storage space over the DVD format to provide higher quality video and sound for movies, and to support the increasing storage needs of the rapidly growing video game market.
@umbles7007
5 жыл бұрын
you know, I usually go down a rabbithole just watching youtube videos, but now I just spend hours watching just "Today I found out" videos
@UncleJackOnline
6 жыл бұрын
I'm an old fart...and can only remember one person with a LD player.......it looked like a mini oven.....
@gregoryeverson741
6 жыл бұрын
im 37, i dont know any1 with an LD player, had a friend with a beta, but they went to VHS a year later
@UncleJackOnline
6 жыл бұрын
had a Betamax for years but then went vhs as there were more tapes for that around especially in rental shops, never had a video 2000 machine though
@michaeldickens1101
6 жыл бұрын
I actually got quite familiar with LaserDisc as a kid, my stepfather was really big on video players that (back in the day), video stores like Blockbuster supported and rented out movies for saying “if Blockbuster backs it, it’s a successful format” I remember as a kid going to Blockbuster and renting movies on LaserDisc, we had a dual laser system that would “auto-flip” discs when side A ended
@adammetzger4182
4 жыл бұрын
I never knew anyone that had one. But I remember watching them in school.
@darkashtar
6 жыл бұрын
My parents had a laserdisc machine when I was a kid. It was cheaper for us in the 80s than VHS but then again we lived in Alaska, so the prices of things back then were quite different. When I was a teenager I got to discover great movies like Blade Runner, Monty Python, Time Bandits, and many more. We also had Star Wars, Alien, Jaws, and many others.
@grahamcann1761
6 жыл бұрын
How can you do this without recognizing Ampex, and how the real winner was Germany, though it never received much recognition. (Ampex developed Tape Media, from tech taken from Germany.)
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
lmao thats cute
@aaronburratwood.6957
6 жыл бұрын
This vid was exactly what I needed this morning. Thanks Simon, this was a lot to take in. Gonna watch it again. 🤯
@davidbuschhorn6539
6 жыл бұрын
As with many good products made by ridiculous companies (looking at you Apple), the Sony Betamax was... Sony. If you wanted to use that format, there was zero selection. Every machine was way too expensive and you had one company to buy it from. Sony. They refused to license the patent so other companies could manufacture them (the way IBM did with the PC and how VHS did with those products).
@NJ-wb1cz
6 жыл бұрын
Sony is Sony. They are infamous for creating their own closed off standards and losing in the end. MiniDisc, Betamax, DAT, MemoryStick, ATRAC, UMD - all failed. Recently they made an LDAC codec for Bluetooth and they actually gave it to Android - maybe MAYBE this one will stick. I hope it will, since it's better than APT-X HD.
@johncrafton8319
6 жыл бұрын
That's what killed every single one of Sony's formats. They were all proprietary, and licensing fees were so much that publishers and other manufacturers simply avoided them. Superior technology continued to lose simply because of Sony's draconian licensing policies.
@sa6r3
6 жыл бұрын
wasnt it down to porn the reason they lost in the tape battle , but with HD dvd they one the battle with blu-ray buy selling there ps3 at a loss to ensure alot of households had one in them ,but that was a short war as things went the way of files rather than disc's
@lordgarion514
6 жыл бұрын
Bear Arms ATRAC was pretty good though. But I still have hope Sony goes under one day. I was one of the people who had their computer infected by a virus from their music CDs way back when. Hated them ever since.
@tiornys
6 жыл бұрын
Had and loved an MiniDisc portable player (that used ATRAC compression) back when the typical MP3 player could only store about 70 minutes of music. When the first iPod hit, I knew the MiniDisc was dead, although I didn't stop using it until I ran the player into the ground (which took several years because Sony portable player quality was amazing back then).
@NumeMoon
6 жыл бұрын
There is a specific spot in the original Star Wars: A New Hope that I expect to freeze every time I watch it thanks to an early laser disc player. They're just about to blow up the planet. Princess Leia desperately pleads, "No! Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons. You can't possibly..." Tarkin gives the order, "You may fire when ready," the lever is pulled, cue sound effect, and FREEZE! o.O
@MinecraftIndiana
6 жыл бұрын
I love laserdisc. They are like my records. I own over 80.
@FitzgeraldProvidence
6 жыл бұрын
Bonus fact: DVD's and CD's were once proved to be totally scratch-proof to electronics stores to convince companies that this was the future audio video format and that it would last a lifetime. The sales people would use a screwdriver, scratch the surface repeatedly and showed how it was impossible to damage the disc. Of course, they were the only ones to demonstrate the scratching and quickly hand out the scratch proof disc and the screwdriver just vanish from site. It was funny years later to see how easy it was to scratch and damage the CD's but that is deceptive salesmanship at its best.
@cicalinarrot
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, just like Germany ultimately won WW2.
@windhelmguard5295
6 жыл бұрын
they might still. the war never oficially ended, there was only ever a cease fire between the alied forces and germany.
@alanhowitzer
6 жыл бұрын
Really? Maybe you are talking about North and South Korea. It's too bad Germany lost the way it did, I wish they hadn't tried taking on the world.
@abdulmasaiev9024
6 жыл бұрын
+Windhelm Guard Uh, what is this then? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender
@AtlasReburdened
6 жыл бұрын
cicalinarrot I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word "ultimately". They're fucked. Being invaded and replaced as we speak.
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
omg ppl such cringe. the point is that laserdisc DID NOT WIN the format wars. DVD and Blu-ray are the current winners and they ARE NOT LASERDISC, nor are they offshoots of it. If you use broad enough definitions to let laserdisc be the parent of DVD, then by the same logic vinyl records won the storage war. ffs
@Bourbonismbeta
6 жыл бұрын
I seriously thought he was going to say "this video is brought to you by *Laserdisc Prodiction Company*" at the beginning. Would've laughed my lungs out.
@The_Mimewar
6 жыл бұрын
It’s funny, I just bought 2 laserdisc player
@Culturedog
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, boyeeee!
@Linusgump
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the early 90’s I was stationed in Okinawa when the Marine Corps bought their first Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer, ISMT, from Fire Arms Training Solutions, FATS. We got the first one and got trained by FATS personnel on how to set it up and operate it. The boot up system and scenarios were on laserdisc. We spent about 2 weeks playing with it. Every non rocket man-packable weapon was available on that system, and oddly, you could use them on every scenario. Want to use a MK-19 for room to room MOUT? Knock yourself out! Want to qualify at the 500 meter line on the KD course with a MP5, or M9, or the shotgun? Give it a shot! Yeah, it was a lot of fun, but sucked down the CO2 (used to give the weapons recoil), and the computer stack/disc player was susceptible to the high humidity and the discs were easily scratched.
@TonksMoriarty
6 жыл бұрын
*Reads title* This is gonna be about how DVD & Blu-ray uses a similar idea *Watches video* 100% right. :3
@_Super_Hans_
6 жыл бұрын
wow ur a genius u should work for nasa
@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302
2 жыл бұрын
Throughout the universe, the Laserdisc Guardian brings hifi surround sound and supreme visual quality to those in need of the superior movie playing platform.
@my2commonsense476
6 жыл бұрын
One thing, It's Laserdisc, not Laserdisk.
@armouredoutlaw1537
6 жыл бұрын
My2CommonSense why do you care?
@my2commonsense476
6 жыл бұрын
Uh, I don't care, it's the proper spelling.
@reh3884
3 жыл бұрын
@@my2commonsense476 It's called Internet Pedantic Douche Bag Syndrome.
@JeffreyParrishJcap
6 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of the way in which you present content. Your choices of content are usually at least somewhat intriguing by themselves, but would not garner nearly as much attention if they were not presented they that Simon does. Simon just has this morgan-freeman like magnetism that makes everything he says interesting. I am always so excited when a new TIFO comes out.
@erebostd
6 жыл бұрын
So... He stole the idea from a German classic radio?
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
dumb
@jmchez
6 жыл бұрын
Ahh, the 1990's! 1. Rent laser disc. 2. record both sides onto Super VHS. 3. Acquire a massive collection of high quality movie recordings. 4. Toss all in the garbage in the 2,000's! I wish I had that money back. Today: 1. Search for torrents, 2. Download onto a 4 terabyte hard drive. 3. Use Kodi to manage your database. 5. Your hard drive crashes and you didn't back it up! 6. You remember you have backblaze and they'll send you a new hard drive backup.
@Zefram0911
6 жыл бұрын
Today I Found Out that Simon is one of my favourite people on KZitem.
@lalida6432
4 жыл бұрын
The most hilarious and annoying thing was they had to play “Side B” in the middle of your movie. But it was the first time you got to see extras like DVDs had later.
@promontorium
6 жыл бұрын
Ultimately we all lost when streaming won. Sure you get things cheaper and more convenient, but you don't get to choose WHAT you get. "But Amazon or pirating" you mean a small selection of current hits you don't want clogging up your computer's memory or shitty bootlegs in between viruses? I want to watch a specific episode of Psych. Great it's 2018. Go on ebay, look for DVD. Because that's the only fucking way I'm finding it. "But hurr such and such is hosting it right now" God Dammit that's not my point! My point is 90% of all film and TV ISN'T being hosted. With physical media going, so are our options. Nobody is making a mass archive option. Which is what would be a truly superior form.
@uyuman1
6 жыл бұрын
Blame the record and movie companies for being against anything internet related.
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
yup. mp4 won the format wars
@de_everett
6 жыл бұрын
Psych is on amazon prime video my guy, I’m rewatching it rn, also I have all of the eps downloaded
@thatguyontheright1
6 жыл бұрын
Physical media is not going away anytime soon. Some people aren't satisfied with the low quality streams (even at 4K) of Netflix and them and want something better that doesn't eat up their data cap.
@de_everett
6 жыл бұрын
TGOTR yeah also there’s something about collecting blu-rays that I like a lot of other people enjoy
@dmac7128
5 жыл бұрын
One aspect overlooked in the tape vs laser disk wars is the use case for owning one of these formats. Tape offered a feature that mattered more to most people, the ability to time shift television programming. DVR's are what ultimately ended tape as a viable format. It filled the same needs with superior video and audio quality and was more convenient. In a bit of irony, the digital downloading and streaming of movies may eventually lead to the end of all physical formats and the internet may be the winner of the format wars. It combines all of the features that consumers want: good picture and audio quality, the ability to watch programs at any time from any internet connected device with sufficient bandwidth.
@Lukiel666
6 жыл бұрын
VHS won the video wars. Because you could get porn on VHS.
@laserdiscphan
6 жыл бұрын
You could get porn on Laserdisc and Betamax contrary to popular belief. kzitem.info/news/bejne/tYmhmoKQf3mQmX4
@garetclaborn
6 жыл бұрын
we're talking about format wars, which neither laserdisc nor vhs won because DVD/Blu-ray are not actually successors to laserdisc just because they're discs. anyway the internet won the video war. vhs porn got nothing on broadband
@byronservies4043
6 жыл бұрын
I worked at a video store from 1981-1984. All of the porn was VHS and sold briskly.
@ottoschenkler2594
6 жыл бұрын
Lukiel666 As a former VHS distributer, I concur. Porn outsold general release 4 to 1. Without porn, VHS was dead.
@DaveCM
6 жыл бұрын
To think that many attribute the victory to Disney.
@lakrids-pibe
6 жыл бұрын
That's not how they pronounce the name Joachim in Germany. That's spanish. "Hello, this is Today I learned, and my name is Simon José Whistler"
@AJ-ut8cz
6 жыл бұрын
streaming is winning.
@reh3884
3 жыл бұрын
Until you find that what you want to watch isn't available.
@lauralucreziamartell3342
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Simon, I find your videos fascinating and entertaining. I am a native English speaker and a graduate student in Italian literature and culture in the United States. Over the years, I have noticed that I do not always remember in which language a given conversation has taken place and have several polyglot friends who experience the same phenomenon. I was hoping you could do a video on why we don't necessarily remember the language of a conversation while still remembering the content of said conversation. Yours, Laura Martell
@loungemane7847
6 жыл бұрын
Tunnel bear yall. 😤😤💪💪💪💪take a tunnel. take a bear...Tunnel bear.
Пікірлер: 1,2 М.