#demo videodisc

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1978 DiscoVision "US DEMO" laserdisc

This was the very first publicly-available demonstration laserdisc (there had been a few for prototype display uses only before this.) It shows a bit on how the system worked and how the first discs were made- it turned out that for optimal quality, much cleaner conditions than what's shown here were needed.

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Sony's Coral Story (1989)

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A bit of a change of pace, but I figure I'd put it here because this blog is - at the moment - called "Kyle's Various Lists and Stuff"...

I am a Disney VHS collector and enthusiast. Have been collecting those things, in earnest, since 2005. I used to run a blogger-dot-com blog on that, too... I believe a version of this list is buried on there somewhere. Maybe not?

Anyways, for those not in the know... What you see above is the Walt Disney Classics motion graphic that first appeared on Disney videocassettes and videodiscs in 1988, and was used - officially - up until 1994. It made a few accidental appearances after that, though, in both North America and overseas, too.

This was for the line known as "The Classics", or "Walt Disney Classics", a video line created by Walt Disney Home Video in 1984 as the library of the studio's esteemed animated features - many of them premiered on video for the first time as part of this line. In 1994, it would be retired and replaced by the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, and then that would later be replaced by the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection in 2000. This "Classics" line used a different, less sophisticated logo during its early years, this logo - which was itself a brother logo to the company's standard Walt Disney Home Video intro graphic - would replace it in 1988.

So, interestingly, there are three visual variants of this logo first introduced in 1988 on the video release of CINDERELLA. The one above is the first ever variant... And it's rather rare, because the art department behind this motion graphic immediately made some changes to the logo. So, the second ever appearance of the logo on the 1989 BAMBI video release... it looked a little different. The black/blue gradient background was changed to a solid blue, the diamond looked more like a frame than a metal plaque, and the overall coloring on the letters was different. That version was commonly used from 1989 to 1992, when a very saturated and very "blue" version of the logo started cropping up in 1992... That's another discussion for another day...

So below is a list of all the appearances of this early version of the Classics logo, with the gradient background and plaque diamond:

CINDERELLA 1988 VHS: This is the only appearance of the logo where it is perfectly centered... All other appearances of this logo have it noticeably off to the right of the screen. It is also, apparently, in mono on this release. The jingle isn't as crystal clear as it sounds on later releases. This off-center version also appears on the French-Canadian VHS (those usually had their own unique openings in terms of warning screens and previews - or lack thereof), released the same time. Also appears on the LaserDisc release, sometimes Classics LaserDiscs didn't use a Classics logo at all.

BAMBI 1989 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS

DISNEY/TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO JAPANESE PROMO VHS 1989: A recently discovered roughly 12min demo/promo tape for what was available on home video from Disney in Japan in 1989.

FANTASIA - THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE 1991 BONUS VHS: This cassette was part of the deluxe edition release of FANTASIA. Though the FANTASIA release bares no Classics logo or even "Walt Disney's Classic" heading on the packaging or VHS shell itself, it opens with the 1989 variant. This box set-exclusive VHS opens with the gradient variant. How unusual!

101 DALMATIANS 1992 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS: Curiously, the four Classics releases from Disney in 1992... All the French Canadian releases opened with this logo.

THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE 1992 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS

THE RESCUERS 1992 DEMO VHS

THE RESCUERS 1992 LASERDISC: Unusual, in that the VHS release opens with the 1992 variant of the Classics logo.

THE RESCUERS 1992 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS: Quite something how the September 1992 video release of THE RESCUERS had a lot of the 1988 Classics logo appearing around it... This, the demo tape, the LaserDisc... Except for the actual US/Canadian release itself, which used the 1992 "bluer" variant. (And was also the first release to have the jingle presented in a muddy, bass-heavy mix.)

ROBIN HOOD 1991 VHS - LATER PRESSINGS: These pressings of ROBIN HOOD's 1991 VHS release started showing up in around fall 1992, right around the time of THE RESCUERS' VHS release. The first pressings of the '91 ROBIN HOOD release originally opened with a cut-short version of the 1989 Classics logo variant, then a rarer set of pressings of early 1992 had that as well but without previews before it... Then there were these pressings.

DUMBO 1992 DESCRIPTIVE SERVICES VHS: This logo did, curiously, show up on descriptive services VHS tapes of certain Disney titles around this time. This DUMBO release was the earliest one I could find.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1992 DEMO VHS

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1992 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS

PINOCCHIO 1993 FRENCH CANADIAN VHS

MARY POPPINS 1994 DESCRIPTIVE SERVICES VHS: The most curious of the DVS VHS tapes... MARY POPPINS, being a live-action film with some animation in it, was never considered one of the "animated features" and thus was not part of the Classics line... But this VHS uses the logo for some reason.

ALADDIN 1994 DESCRIPTIVE SERVICES VHS

If there are any missing, please let me know!

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1982 Sony industrial-use laserdisc demo

This model player was mainly used at Ford dealers as well as Disney World. Laser rot on this disc gets worse towards the end.

Segment on WorldKey at 18:55

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Cyberthon Video Documentation from David Lawrence on Vimeo.

Hi8 "Flock Cam" footage from Cyberthon, a 24-hour virtual reality event presented by Whole Earth Institute at (Colossal)Pictures Studios in San Francisco, October 6-7, 1990.

Shot list:

0:00 - VPL demo with Stewart Brand 0:17 - Fake Space Labs demo (Mark Bolas) 0:40 - Maze corridor and mylar room 0:50 - Holograms (Louis Brill) 0:54 - Flying Mouse and VR workbench demo (Steve Tice Sim Graphics) 1:04 - Hard Driving (Atari video game) 1:08 - Sense8 goggles and glove technology (Patrice Gelband and Eric Gullichsen) 1:14 - Analogue VR (Will Kreth) 1:18 - A virtual art gallery tour (ArtCom) 1:22 - Mandala Virtual World System (Vivid Effect, Inc.) 1:29 - Golden Gate Interactive Videodisc (Ken Carson and Michael Naimark) 1:40 - Jaron Lanier, main stage talk "Virtual Reality - After the Hoopla" 1:55 - Terence McKenna, main stage talk "Virtual Reality and Visible Language" 2:08 - random crowd, Timothy Leary, William Gibson 2:19 - Nap room 2:31 - "Bozo Cam" (Michael Naimark and David Lawrence) 2:39 - "Bozo Cam" 35mm footage excerpt 2:52 - VPL system 3:00 - Polhemus motion tracking device 3:07 - Holograms (Louis Brill) 3:12 - Sense8 goggles and glove technology (Patrice Gelbrand and Eric Gullichsen) 3:32 - 3D video (Michael Starks, 3DTV) 3:37 - VPL demo with Brian Eno 4:12 - Synchro-stim 2000 4:22 - Mom's Kitchen 4:25 - Mom's Kitchen 35mm overhead cam time-lapse excerpt 4:33 - Cyberglove and 3D design (James Kramer, Virtual Technologies) 4:40 - Timothy Leary and Wavy Gravy at main stage talk 4:52 - Wavy Gravy, main stage talk "Virtual Reality and Visible Language"

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cyberthon Doc Squad - KO Beckman, David Lawrence, Michael Naimark

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This is Sony (1989 Analog HDTV 1080i HDVS Video Demonstration Disc)

This is "This is Sony" (HD-123) from a Sony-made high-definition 12" HDVS videodisc. The HDVS disc format was designed to be a highly portable 12" laserdisc-derived media format for Sony's "High-Definition Video System" or "Hi-Vision" back in the early 1990's! Back then, high definition was a little different from how it is now. It was analog (not digital) & close to but slightly different in resolution to the 1080i picture we receive over the air today as it was technically 1125i/1035i. Before the earliest high-definition media was available to the public (via satellite, MUSE Laserdisc, & W-VHS tapes), Sony and other companies began shooting footage, doing research, and, showing public displays of high-definition television. There were three main ways of storing HDTV (or HDVS) at that time: Reel-to-reel tape (HDV-1000), cartridge tape (HDV-10 "UniHi"), & 12" Laserdisc-style discs (HDL-5800 / HDL-2000). This footage came from one of the Laserdisc-style discs. These HDVS discs could only hold a maximum of 15 minutes of video (on CLV discs, even less on CAV discs)…but it held uncompressed, raw high-definition component video! Take that, Blu-Ray. This video is one of the first videos to be produced for the HDVS disc format in 1989. This analog HD recording focuses on some of the many technologies that Sony was using & manufacturing at the time such as Hi8 camcorders, Discman CD players, D-2 digital tape recorders, 48-track PCM recorders, and the very unusual Sony NEWS workstation computers. The video is split into four sections: Semiconductor Factory, Network Station, Factory Automation, & Broadcast System For Professionals. It features some rare footage of the inside of Sony's factories and some very cool footage that was used in various 1988-era commercials & advertisements which has never before been seen in HD. As a result, it is likely that this footage may have actually been taped in 1988.

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Philips Laserdisc Promotional Video

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Computer Graphics Special (1986 High Quality 60FPS Laserdisc CG Demo Reel)

This is the 1986 Laserdisc "Computer Graphics Special" (SS098-6022) which is a very early CG demonstration disc with behind-the-scenes video & some very interesting (and dated) narration. The video features CG clips created by Pixar, Robert Abel & Associates, Wavefront, ect & used by NBC, CBS, Nickelodeon, HBO, Bravo, & many other companies in the 1980's.

This disc was also released in the USA with minor differences as "Dream Machine #1: The Visual Computer" (V1001L).

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Chapter List (by scene): 00:14- PACIFIC DATA IMAGES "CHROMOSAURUS" 01:55- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY "MIT SKETCHPAD" 02:06- UNIVERSITY OF UTAH "ANIMATED HAND" & "TALKING HEAD" 02:31- EVANS & SUTHERLAND "CT6 GRAPHICS" 02:38- SOGITEC "CAMERA" 02:45- DIGITAL EFFECTS "WATER DROPLET" 03:11- CRANSTON/CSURI PRODUCTIONS INC. "KALEIDOSCOPE" 03:37- OMNIBUS COMPUTER GRAPHICS "TEXTURED CYLINDERS" 03:52- APOLLO COMPUTER "QUEST-A LONG RAY'S JOURNEY INTO LIGHT" 09:24- SOGITEC "ROBOT" 09:58- KLEIN &/CD TAYLOR "Z CHANNEL" 11:29- ABEL IMAGE RESEARCH "AMAZING STORIES OPENNING"(PROCESS) 13:26- INTELLIGENT LIGHT "KANSAS CITY ROYALS" 14:23- VMAX "CHANGING SPHERE" 14:31- SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES "SPHERE PYRAMID" 14:41- EIHACHIRO NAKAMAE "FEAST OF LIGHT" 14:56- WAVEFRONT TECHNOLOGIES "LIGHTNING SPHERES" 17:58- VMAX "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE" 19:20- VMAX "FLYING BIRD" 19:45- MELVIN PRUEITT "CRYSTAL DOVE" 20:28- EVANS & SUTHERLAND "WIREFRAME WALKING PERSON" 20:06- PIERRE LACHAPPELLE "TONY DE PELTRIE" 22:51- ABEL IMAGE RESEARCH "BRILLIANCE" (PROCESS) 25:19- FEIGENBAUM PRODUCTIONS "PHILIPS LIGHTBULB" 25:27- SOGITEC "QUATRO" 25:48- CRANSTON/CSURI PRODUCTIONS INC. "TRW COMMERCIAL PROCESS" 28:02- W.A.C.S. PRODUCTIONS "EXPLORACOM" 28:23- ADVANCED ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION "PILL GRAPH" 28:31- STRACTURAL DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORP. "HAIRDRYERS" 28:52- INTELLIGENT LIGHT "KITCHEN AID" 30:03- ANIMATICA "BRIDGE" 30:13- AUTODESK INC. "TRANS-AMERICA BUILDING" 31:18- ENGLISH MARKELL POCKETT LTD "GLOBE" 31:42- PIXAR "GEOGRAPHICAL MAPPING" 31:52- PRISM ARTS GROUP "EYE" & "NERVES" 32:31- PACIFIC PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER "CEEMAX" 33:17- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA "GRIP" 33:25- NELSON MAX "DNA" & "TOMATO BUSHY VIRUS" 34:11- VMAX "WATER" 34:28- DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS "GRAND CANYON" 34:37- EVANS & SUTHERLAND "AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLIGHT SIMULATION" 35:42- EVANS & SUTHERLAND "SPACE SHUTTLE LANDING SIMULATION" 37:17- DIGITAL EFFECTS "GALAXY" 38:03- APOLLO COMPUTER "SPACE RUNWAY" & "QUEST-A LONG RAY'S JOURNEY INTO LIGHT" 39:58- DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS "COLORED MARBIES & CHROME" & "TRW COMMERCIAL" 40:41- ABEL IMAGE RESEARCH "PROCESS OF RENDERING STONE" 41:23- CRANSTON/CSURI PRODUCTIONS INC. "SPINNIG TEXTURED URN" 41:53- DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS "COKE CANS" 42:59- CRANSTON/CSURI PRODUCTIONS INC. "MOBIUS GEARS" 43:41- DONNA COHEN "PASTEL" & "SPACED" & "PILLARS" 43:54- J. MICHAEL O'ROURKE "LUMINESCENT MODULATIONS" 44:46- YOICHIRO KAWAGUCHI "GROWTH III-ORIGIN" 46:08- EVANS & SUTHERLAND "REALTIME TANK" 47:39- ELECTRON VIDEO CREATIONS PORTION OF "THE LONE BREAKER" 49:22- VMAX "JUGGLING CLOWN" 49:51- GREENLIGHT PRODUCTIONS LTD. "IZZY" 50:24- PIXAR "THE ADVENTURES OF ANDRE AND WALLY B" 52:10- PIXAR "YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES" © PARAMOUNT PICTURES 53:30- THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY "PICTURE GALLERY" 54:51- PACIFIC DATA IMAGES "A COMIC ZOOM"

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There is an accompanying Japanese narration track which I'd like to add if/when YouTube rolls out multiple audio tracks to all YouTubers.

A small portion was removed featuring NBC's Amazing Stories intro due to copyright.

This was played back using a Pioneer HLD-X0 laserdisc player.

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