Posted by Bill on 01/22/08 22:46

Richard C. wrote:
> "Bill" <ws@ws.com> wrote in message
> news:fBrlj.13535$OC1.1848@newsfe20.lga...
>> Also, work on what was to become the Laser Disc was already underway
>> in the early 70s.
>
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> Actually, LD was developed long before VHS.
> Sales of commercial LDS and players started in 1977.

I remember quite well, even though I wasn't in the test market area
(Atlanta?). In 1972, during my senior year in high school, I remember
writing a research paper on the emerging home video revolution. I found
magazine articles, at the time, about work being done on the laserdisc
format, as well as articles mentioning Cartrivision, Columbia's EVR
system, and an early RCA effort utilizing what they referred to as
Holotape. The laserdisc was, by far, the most intriguing of the concepts.

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