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LaserDisc
Also Known As DiscoVision
Home Video
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The first commercial optical disc video format, storing an analog video signal as laser-readable pits and lands on a disc roughly 300 millimetres across. It offered picture quality that surpassed VHS and supported digital surround sound, though costly players and the inability to record kept it from displacing the cassette outside Japan. Philips, Pioneer and MCA brought it to market in 1978 as DiscoVision, rebranding it LaserVision and then LaserDisc once Pioneer took the leading role in 1980.
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Introduced YearMarketed from 1978 as DiscoVision; rebranded LaserVision and then LaserDisc once Pioneer took the leading role in 1980. Cross-Tradition Connections
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LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium.
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