Scratches on a dvd are as fatal as scratches on a cd. My laserdisc player
does just what it says, reads the disc by laser. Resolution is just a
little less than dvd, still almost twice that of vhs. I still watch the
occasional laserdisc, some are more than 10 years old. There are no
perceptible production problems. There was an old dead format might have
been called "disc-o-vision" by RCA that used a needle to read the discs.
Format was dead before you could plug the payer in.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Beals" <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] DVD success; digital versus film; "Office Space"
> >One little scratch on a DVD and it's a coaster.
>
> Not quite. It's got to be more of a mar than a scratch. Fine scratches
are
> not fatal, generally.
>
> And yes, there are people I know who use computers who don' have a DVD
player
> for whatever reason.
>
> The '91 videodisc format that someone mentioned earlier was probably
Laserdisc
> but that was early enough it could have been the Pioneer(?) format which
read
> the video via a stylus dragged through the grooves on the disc. There
were
> some production problems with some Laserdiscs that persisted (in theory)
until
> DVDs came out wherein the picture would crap out for unknown reasons and
the
> disc would be a 12" coaster.
>
>
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