Subj : Movie formats
To   : Alonzo
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon May 19 2025 17:12:28

  Re: Re: Floppy LPs
  By: Alonzo to Roon on Mon May 19 2025 07:44 pm

 Ro>  b>> One thing I never experienced, but always wanted to try, was loading
 Ro>  b>> computer data from vinyl.  It should theoretically be possible to

 Al> They did that a long time ago. They put movies onto large plastic disks
 Al> called video discs. I understand they had amazing sound but for some
 Al> reason they didn't last long. DVDs took over.

Was there actually a format for movies using vinyl (and is "video disc" an official standard)?  I remember Laserdisc, and those were the size of vinyl records, but I don't think those were vinyl (and they used a laser rather than a stylus to read them)..

Nightfox
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