If not for them I never would have learned the difference between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock

10/7/2011 7:54:29 PM

hahaha...I forgot about those!

10/7/2011 7:55:23 PM

this was a form of media that lived such a short life, that it was irrelevant to me

I remember watching 1 or 2 of them in middle school

10/7/2011 7:58:38 PM

Super cool CD man.

10/7/2011 7:59:55 PM

I've never seen one but a few rich kids had them.

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"this was a form of media that lived such a short life, that it was irrelevant to me"

like Sony MiniDisc or zip drives? and going way further back, Betamax cassette tapes

10/7/2011 8:00:24 PM

So what you're saying is that you recently found an elementary school geology lesson on LaserDisc and you just now learned all this?

10/7/2011 8:00:25 PM

They were big in Japan until 1-2 years ago. They were a lot more popular over there. This is according to a friend of mine.

10/7/2011 8:01:19 PM

MiniDisc were irrelevant to me
I actually used a ZIP drive pretty often back in the day

10/7/2011 8:01:31 PM

They had whole MiniDisc stores in Japan that had music on them. I think Sony spent all of their advertising budget in Japan on that one

10/7/2011 8:03:51 PM

paerabol, did you stop dating that way hot chick from a year or 2 ago?

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10/7/2011 8:32:33 PM

haha, what a waste of money. i remember one school of mine spending so much money on these and the players, acting like these were the thing of the future.

10/8/2011 12:59:24 AM

Dr00: naw I just remember it was goofy science videos on those things

^^you'll have to be more specific (pm if necessary)

10/8/2011 1:02:09 AM

Ha, yeah I remember that they really slow to respond to commands going through the menus. It always used to annoy the teacher using it.

10/8/2011 3:37:23 AM

Lol - 6th grade science did heavily rely on these!


I always wanted to throw one too

10/8/2011 8:43:05 AM

no

10/8/2011 9:11:58 AM

lol, those were awesome. I remember the teachers having huge books full of barcodes they had to scan to switch between things.

10/8/2011 9:13:18 AM

I remember watching one of these

And one of my father's friends going on about how he swore up and down he saw this massive CD that had movies on it one time and they all thought he was tripping balls

10/8/2011 9:32:30 AM

yes

10/8/2011 9:38:26 AM

My stepdad owned a Sears Appliance store so we had several of those along with the player of course. I think we had Aliens and Top Gun...maybe Event Horizon as well.

He also had one of these displayed in his store that I played all the time:



Philips CD-i!! What a fucking failure that was. Makes the Sega Saturn look like the iphone.

10/8/2011 9:39:03 AM

my dad still has our laserdisc player. we had outbreak, all 3 star wars, and mission impossible. some of those movies required 2 discs. jeez

10/8/2011 9:43:15 AM

I just laff because I can fit many movies, albums, and pictures on a chip smaller than my pinky nail now

10/8/2011 9:46:30 AM

I do! My friend's dad had em and one was George Carlin's HBO special where he talks about "stuff".
We were WAY too young to be watching Carlin! Everytime he said "fuck" we would be like "ahhhhh he said a baaaad word!!"

10/8/2011 9:48:46 AM

yeah

last decade i was writing a paper on jaws for a film class

the laserdisc was available at dh hill

10/8/2011 10:53:01 AM

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"Philips CD-i!! What a fucking failure that was. Makes the Sega Saturn look like the iphone."

I think you put way too much thought into this statement

10/8/2011 11:30:11 AM

gary busey does

10/8/2011 11:36:47 AM

i took this lame religion class at state and the dude had us all go up to the library to sit in some little theater b/c the video he wanted to show us was on laserdisc

10/8/2011 1:33:27 PM

god, laserdiscs. those things were massively shitty in 7th grade science class. that teacher loved em, but they sucked. slow to respond to anything, and half of the time they didn't fucking work

10/8/2011 2:22:26 PM

10/8/2011 2:31:22 PM

Laserdiscs weren't all bad.

At least you could fast-forward, rewind, and do frame-by-frame.

They were just so cumbersome....

10/8/2011 2:33:13 PM