#discovision

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On December 25, 1978, Frankenstein was released on Discovision.

[stone-cold-groove]

You already own half of the world’s most advanced home entertainment system.

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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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Playthrough of the text adventure game Adventures In Videoland (also known as Rollercoaster) from Creative Computing magazine, by David Lubar. January 1982. For the Apple II computer. This is a simple type-in text adventure game that utilizes a laserdisc player to show cutscenes, from side 1 of disc 1 of Rollercoaster, a 1977 movie featuring George Segal. [To play this, you'll] need an Apple II, Pioneer LD-V2200 or compatible laserdisc player, and the DiscoVision version of Rollercoaster. First appeared in Creative Computing v8n1 (January 1982.). It was later republished in the book Big Computer Games (Creative Computing Press, 1984)

[thealmightyemprex]

Got some new laserdiscs,specifically the earliest form of laserdisc MCA Discovision

Got Psycho and the Wiz

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @amalthea9 @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @filmcityworld1 @angelixgutz @minimumheadroom

[girlballs]

so you're in support for art theft? answer instead of deflecting like you always do

The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.

First conceived in 1964, the CED system was widely seen as a technological success which was able to increase the density of a long-playing record by two orders of magnitude.[2] Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, various conflicts with RCA management, and several technical difficulties that slowed development and stalled production of the system for 17 years—until 1981, by which time it had already been made obsolete by laser videodisc (DiscoVision, later called LaserVision and LaserDisc) as well as Betamax and VHS video cassette formats. Sales for the system were nowhere near projected estimates. In the spring of 1984, RCA announced it was discontinuing player production, but continued the production of videodiscs until 1986, losing an estimated $650 million in the process. RCA had initially intended to release the SKT425 CED player with their high end Dimensia system in late 1984, but cancelled CED player production prior to the Dimensia system's release.[3]

The format was commonly known as "videodisc", leading to much confusion with the contemporaneous LaserDisc format. LaserDiscs are read optically with a laser beam, whereas CED discs are read physically with a stylus (similar to a conventional phonograph record). The two systems are mutually incompatible.

RCA used the brand name "SelectaVision" for the CED system, a name also used for some early RCA brand VCRs,[4] and other experimental projects at RCA.[5][6] The Video High Density system is similar to that of CED.

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Truly the end of an era... Isn't it?

According to The Digital Bits, the home entertainment division of Disney will essentially be closing up shop... After over 40 years of existence. While Disney had provided some forms of home media in the 1970s, such as 8 and 16mm film reels and videodisc releases through a deal with MCA DiscoVision, Walt Disney Home Video - as it was known back then - was established in 1980 and through several decades transformed the home media market in many ways.

Not like one of my little special interests is... Collecting the historic and vintage '80s and '90s releases of some of their movies...

So this hits kind of hard for me...

But, the possible upside is... You're likely still going to see Disney films - old and new, mainline Disney and 20th Century Studios and everything else that they own - come to physical media in the future. They have allocated all home video duties to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, per a huge deal. And as Bill Hunt notes in his article, given what Disney's home media division has become over the past decade... A shell of its former self and a poorly-managed nightmare... Maybe this will mean good news for releases going forward.

Maybe better care will be put into certain titles that have been lacking and rushed as of late, maybe films that have been collecting dust will finally debut on disc (looking at THE EMPTY MAN, BARBARIAN, SEE HOW THEY RUN, and ALL OF US STRANGERS as recent examples, to say nothing of several classic titles), who the heck knows. But what's dunderheaded to me is the pending shuttering of the Disney Movie Club, which could still be used as a fantastic outlet for releasing these movies on disc... Because we just saw Best Buy completely give up on physical media, and many other stores aren't really pulling the weight, either. You go to the Blu-ray/4K/DVD section of a Walmart or Target, and it's honestly kinda depressing in a way...

Now unless Disney starts up a new online shop of sorts, not dissimilar to say the Warner Archive, this would be moot. Although all of those memberships and perks, mine included (I've been a DMC member since 2010), won't mean anything anymore.

This is all developing news, and this could all go either way. I certainly hope we get other movies on disc that haven't been released to any of the more recent formats, and with good additional stuff as well, but we shall see. Physical media is in a weird place right now, where companies are convinced that people no longer want it (like companies usually do), but people have shown that they do want it... There should be a way, because the digital and streaming world only gets you so far, and the streaming bubble has really burst recently. Plenty of ramifications aaaaaall around.

It's just kinda bizarre to think that Disney, who had done so much with home media formats in the '80s, '90s, and '00s, has significantly left it. The idea of them leaving all operations to Sony, or any other company, it just hits different...

But if this means better things for the films going forward, then maybe this is for the best...

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There's so much doctor who from the first two doctors that's just gone. Piracy quite literally keep what's remaining alive. A man took advantage of a legal loophole (at the time) to photograph tv screens and make collectible snapshots for crew as keepsakes called Telesnaps. At least, offically. Unofficially, people bought them as home media b4 the advent of discovision(laserdisc) and VHS.

So then fans put together the Telesnaps and audio tracks from the lost episodes, to recreate lost episodes in an almost slideshow format. This, for literally decades, was the only way to watch some of the episodes.

Why? Tape was expensive, and total reruns were legally limited. So to cut costs, BBC reused tapes. This happened to shows from the 60s through the mid 70s. Season 4 of who? Completely lost. Only one serial from it exists, and that's as a recreation. The big season finale of the first doctor? One episode survived in fragments.

To make matters worse, the BBC is picky about the serials for streaming. They won't mix animated recreations with remaining live action, so some arcs aren't streaming but exist on DVD.

Don't forget, once upon a time, that doctor who was once just another low budget sci-fi show with competent writing. That once, it was considered fair game to nust throw away to save money.

There's quite a lot of shows like that now, aren't there? Ones that get throw under the heel of capitalism.

Circulate, archive and preserve media. We can and have lost media completely that defined the genre. And even the "small stuff" needs to be saved.

People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

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1983 | Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"

Y'all know that thing when you're a kid, and you notice there's this really cool, fashionable thing all the other kids are wearing at school, and you go home and ask your folks for the fashionable, exciting thing so you can be cool?

But then your folks buy you the thing that looks sorta like the fashionable, awesome thing, but is very obviously not that?

Let's just say the parachute pants I requested were not parachute pants.

Eh, I got over it.

Our nextdoor neighbors had "Making Michael Jackson's Thriller" on something called Selectavision. Us kids would go over there and watch it all the time. They also had Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I think they owned like five SelectaVision discs in total, so there was not a lot to choose from. But holy shit, I never got tired of watching John Landis and Michael Jackson collaborate on that video.

I was almost as curious about the SelectaVision.

They looked like giant flat 8-track cassettes to me, and I had no idea how they worked. These weren't laser discs. They were a competing format that had come out earlier. The SelectaVision discs were packaged inside a giant plastic case (like a big 3.5" floppy disk). These Capacitance Electronic Discs (CEDs) were developed by RCA as an updated analog format. They worked very similarly to vinyl records. From Wikipedia:

"First conceived in 1964, the CED system was widely seen as a technological success which was able to increase the density of a long-playing record by two orders of magnitude. Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, various conflicts with RCA management, and several technical difficulties that slowed development and stalled production of the system for 17 years—until 1981, by which time it had already been made obsolete by laser videodisc (DiscoVision, later called LaserVision and LaserDisc) as well as Betamax and VHS video cassette formats."

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Billie Jean is one of the best songs of all time. Like maybe top five. Certainly top 10. His performance of the song on network TV was like a Gen X Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment. And while we'd all learn more about Michael Jackson than we ever wanted to, all 1983 me knew about 1983 Michael Jackson was that he was the coolest human alive.

Of course, that was right before I learned about Prince.

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Olivia (1978) - Olivia Newton-John, Andy Gibb & ABBA - MCA DiscoVision 1980

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On December 25, 1978, Dracula was released on Discovision.

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Magnavision is video for people who know and love video.

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Operating Instructions for the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820 System (side 1 only), 1979

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So the earliest form of laserdisc is Discovision....And I have 8 now

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1. slither - djo

2. destruction - joywave

3. shelter song - temples

4. discovision - anders enger jenson

5. main theme from goncharov - jordan dean

6. flux and stasis - anima!

7. don't 4get to smile - 45acidbabies

8. here today gone tomorrow - 2019 remaster - ulrich schnauss

9. los ageless - st. vincent

10. descent into the inferno - scraping foetus off the wheel

Got tagged by @withoutalice for the 10 songs that play first on a shuffle with my current playlist!

1. Cold World by Red

2. Fear Held Dear by Mushroomhead

3. Remember Me by Einar Solberg

4. Fire Inside by Casey Edwards and Victor Borba

5. Alea by Disillusion

6. Heathens by Port Noir

7. The Stormchaser by Caligula's Horse

8. Portrait by Unprocessed

9. Motherfunk by In Search of Sun

10. The Summoning by Sleep Token

All bangers (in my biased opinion) and I've been spamming The Stormchaser ever since it came out recently ❤️

And I tag uhh @rhewkath @matrim-cauthons-hat @utane @dataglitch @ueon @faelixir @mal-co-holic @icypolargirl78 @chibichibiwoofwoof

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