Back in its time laserdiscs were competing with other video playing formats including vhs cassette tapes.
Laserdisc vs vinyl size.
Laser disc the magic voyage 12 laserdisc.
The most common size of laserdisc was 30 cm 11 8 in approximately the size of 12 in 30 5 cm lp vinyl records.
Laser disc blu ray.
The vast majority of programming for the laserdisc format was produced on these discs.
Remember when video discs were the size of lps.
The holy grails tend to be very late us and japanese releases produced in small numbers sometimes only available as mail pre orders.
Annie hall laserdisc extended play woody alen.
This is not a dvd brides of dracula the laserdisc 1960 40606 4 6 out of 5 stars 302.
They happen to be almost exactly the same size or exactly i don t recall but it s close enough as vinyl records.
These discs allowed for 30 36 minutes per side cav ntsc pal or 60 64 minutes per side clv ntsc pal.
There were more than a few analog video holdouts when the dvd debuted in 1997.
Laser disc currently unavailable.
Star wars duration.
The laserdisc had its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to the vhs tape.
Next up image quality.
Unlike vinyl records the market for new ld players stopped completely years ago and the last ld was produced around 2001 or 2002 so this is really a collector s niche market says wilk.
Vhs there was simply no comparison when it came to the picture quality of the laserdisc back in its prime in the early 80 s.
Digital debates aren t limited to audio.
We have details on sizes speeds and best way to convert.
Check out frame my record.
We test the size difference between laserdisc and dvd.
Super high quality those things.
They did a really awesome job with mine and john even made a custom matching one for a poster for me that wasn t a record frame.