Phillips LazerVision

dar1437

dar1437

Worldz Biggest Oddball
VIP Member
Joined
Dec 10, 2009
Messages
4,601
Reaction score
9,128
Location
Colorado Lounge
Anybody remember these? You had a disk the size of an old LP record and had to turn it over half way through, lol. Picture was not bad, i still got one but i think it's broken (can't remember it's been so long) Only got 3 disks (The Warriors)(An Eye For An Eye) and some Kevin Keegan training school. :)

I also used to have this crazy machine that you inserted what looked like an actual old LP vinyl record and it had what looked like some futuristic stylus which touched the disk and produced a picture. lol still got a load of the films but don't know what happened to the player?
 
I have the smaller version in loft. I think it was phillips cd-i not 100% used to play the old vcds on it and played games. weirdly it looks like a ps3 but grey lol.
 
zad said:
I have the smaller version in loft. I think it was phillips cd-i not 100% used to play the old vcds on it and played games. weirdly it looks like a ps3 but grey lol.
Click to expand...

CD-i and Laserdisk were very different mate. The CD-i was a console that played CD's.

I always wanted a Laserdisk system but my mum bought us a Philips V2000 VCR instead, stupid women!

@ Dar1437, what was this vinyl video disc, that sounds crazy. :)

philipslaser.jpg


laserdisc2.jpg

laserdisc.jpg
 
I had this top-of-the-range one ...

Scroll down to the Champagne Gold Europian version :)
Pioneer DVL-909

There was another way of storing videos on CD before the VCD format, and was about just before the Philips CD-i. IIRC you could only store 5 mins of video on there so most of them were music videos but I think it could be used as a normal audio CD too (I think the problem was that only the inside of the disk could be read due to speed problems). Errr actually I just found it ... CD Video - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ;-) Can't believe I remember that crap !
 
Apparent they are still big in japen and still producing media for it.

I remember star trek TNG being released on it, it was a couple hundred quid for the entire box set.
 
dar1437 said:
Re Video2000, if i'm not mistaken you could turn the tape over like an audio casette?
Click to expand...

lol, yep that's true. The format was pretty nifty.

I think it was the first system to include auto-tracking etc and we could get 8 hour tapes - 4hours each side. :)

I really loved it but it wasn't anywhere near as popular as the VHS or Betamax, so renting movies for it was a bit of a pain in the arse. Luckily we had 3 stores that stocked the tapes, but selection wasn't as varied as the other 2 formats. :)

We didn't get a 'real' VHS VCR until 1986! :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
TEST
Back
Top