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    RLV discs show a standard Test Card when played in a Laserdisc player. Pioneer also produced a rewritable LaserDisc system, the VDR-V1000 "LaserRecorder"...
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    distributed their first DVD player in Japan, a combination Laserdisc/DVD player, model DVL-9. Pioneer announced the end of LaserDisc player production in January...
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  • time it had already been made obsolete by laser videodisc (DiscoVision, later called LaserVision and LaserDisc) as well as Betamax and VHS video cassette...
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    released compact disc player. It was originally sold only in Japan. Unlike early LaserDisc players, first CD players already used laser diodes instead of...
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    CD Video (redirect from Compact Disc Video)
    (12 in) LaserDiscs which included a digital soundtrack but no CD-compatible content. One of the first LaserDisc players that can play CD-V discs is the Pioneer...
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    introduction of a combined CD/laserdisc player. In late 1991, Pioneer LDC established a European division, Pioneer LDCE (short for LaserDisc Corporation of Europe)...
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  • invention of laserdiscs and laserdisc players, the first nonlinear or random access video play devices. The fact that a laserdisc player could jump to...
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    Blu-ray (redirect from Blu-ray player)
    and Xbox Series X. The name refers to the blue laser (actually a violet laser) used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater...
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    Pioneer continued to use laser diodes in all LaserDisc players afterwards until LaserDisc was discontinued in 2009. List of laser types {NIST Atomic Spectral...
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  • Pioneer DVL (category LaserDisc)
    DVL-XXXX Series of LaserDisc home video players were manufactured by Pioneer Corporation and were some of the last LaserDisc players manufactured before...
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    measure influenced the compact disc's design. The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the...
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  • テレビジョン学会誌. 50 (2): 192–194. doi:10.3169/itej1978.50.192 – via J-Stage. Example of an early MUSE LaserDisc player Hi-Vision, MUSE, and the Optical Disc...
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    Video Single Disc (VSD) is a disc-based format that carried the same analog video information as a LaserDisc, but on a 12-centimetre (4.75 inch) diameter...
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  • although the degradation does not involve the player's laser, the "rot" refers to the LaserDisc itself. Laser rot was indicated by the appearance of multi-colored...
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    cinemas typically consisted of a movie pre-recorded on a LaserDisc or VHS tape; a LaserDisc Player or VCR; and a heavy, bulky large-screen cathode-ray tube...
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  • Dragon's Lair (1983 video game) (category LaserDisc video games)
    high strain: LaserDisc players were designed primarily for playing movies, in which the laser assembly would gradually move across the disc as the data...
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    American Laser Games was a company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico that created numerous light gun laserdisc video games featuring live action full motion...
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  • Pioneer PR7820 (category LaserDisc)
    The Pioneer PR-7820 was the first mass-produced industrial LaserDisc player, sold originally as the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820. This unit was used in many...
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  • name. In the late 1970s, Philips developed LaserDisc technology, producing an optically read, 12 inch disc that would contain recorded video material...
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    Pioneer Corporation (category Compact Disc player manufacturers)
    industry-use Laserdisc player. June 1980: Introduces VP-1000 LD player for home use in the U.S. March 1981: Warner-Pioneer Corp. establishes the LaserDisc Corporation...
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    one or two pairs of goggles to the CLD-A100. The standard LaserActive games were on LaserDisc encoded as an LD-ROM. An LD-ROM had a capacity of 540 MB...
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  • Pioneer CLD-1010 (category LaserDisc)
    LaserDisc player introduced by Pioneer Electronics in 1987 as the last of their top-spec players not to be part of their "Elite" lineup. The player was...
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    The first widely noticeable use of lasers was the supermarket barcode scanner, introduced in 1974. The laserdisc player, introduced in 1978, was the first...
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  • Halcyon (console) (category LaserDisc video games)
    reached retailers because of a lack of affordable disc players. The design featured a LaserDisc player and an attached computer, each the size of an early-model...
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  • 65C102 "Turbo" co-processor - which controlled a Philips VP415 LaserVision laserdisc player. The user interface consisted of the BBC Master's keyboard and...
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    specialized variation of the CAV Laserdisc. LV-ROM is an initialism for "LaserVision Read-Only Memory". Like Laserdisc, LV-ROM discs store analog audio and video...
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    CD-ROM (redirect from CD-ROM player)
    (1965–1975). In particular, Gregg's patents were used as the basis of the LaserDisc specification that was co-developed between MCA and Philips after MCA...
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  • DiscoVision (category LaserDisc)
    video LaserDisc format. It was the original name of the "Reflective Optical Videodisc System" format later known as "LaserVision" or LaserDisc. MCA DiscoVision...
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  • Arts Emmy Awards Outstanding Short-format Animated Program "The Last LaserDisc Player" Nominated 2014 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV: Animated Show Regular...
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    Regular Show: The Christmas Special Nominated 2014 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show: The Last LaserDisc Player Nominated...
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