Posted by Corbomite Carrie on 01/24/08 04:33

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:33:00 -0800, "Richard C." <post-age@spamcop.net>
wrote:

>"Corbomite Carrie" <Corbomite@maneuver.org> wrote in message
>news:bg5dp3d29htk3uhefb1k1la24b8n1gmnld@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:58:42 -0800, "Richard C." <post-age@spamcop.net>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>=================================
>>>Actually, LD was developed long before VHS.
>>>Sales of commercial LDS and players started in 1977.
>>
>> You're an idiot. It was late December, '78.
>>
>> VHS came out in September, '76.
>>
>> One was before I graduated High School, and the other was after, and I
>> remember them both quite distinctly.
>
>========================
>As I said: LD was DEVELOPED long before VHS. That is a fact.
>Sales in test areas started in 1977.
>MCA had working prototypes in 1969.
>
>I have this magazine:
>http://www.mindspring.com/~laserguru/popsci.htm
>
>also:
>Laserdisc technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul
>Gregg in 1958

Funny claim, since the first laser was in 1960.

> (and patented in 1961 and 1969).

I question the '61 patent, and could see the '69 patent as valid.

snipped "history".

>Now who is the idiot?

You are.

http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/vhs.html

That was the first model, so you know the development was a couple
years before that at the very least.

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