If you knew someone with a LaserDisc player in the '80s — usually a dentist or a dude who went on ski trips all the time — you knew to never, ever touch that damn thing. You knew that hunk of metal was definitely worth more than it would cost them to kick the crap out of your face.
Costing easily upwards of $1,000 to buy a player, plus a minimum of $30 for each disc (and up from there), LaserDiscs were expensive as heyall. Especially compared to VCRs and VHS, which would even allow you to record your own stuff.
But they were hailed as the cutting edge in home entertainment, and they weren't wrong. Using discs to watch a movie? Way ahead of its time. Plus, the word "laser" is right there in the name. Badass.
While the market might not have been ready for this insane technology, the marketing was spot on. But was it even always called LaserDisc?
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Correct Answer: DiscoVision
The answer is: DiscoVision. Originally developed by MCA (which stands for Music Corporation of America — perhaps that's why they went with disco?), the DiscoVision brought disc-based home media to the masses beginning in 1978.They would soon rebrand it, because, you know, disco, and the LaserDisc became the least popular option in America pretty darn quick. However, in other parts of the world, like affluent areas of Southeast Asia, it sold like hotcakes. Hotcakes that can be read by a laser and provide the highest-quality movie picture available, that is.Source
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