Subj : Re: Movie formats To : All From : Nigel Reed Date : Mon May 19 2025 09:14 pm On Mon, 19 May 2025 17:12:28 -0700 "Nightfox" (21:1/137) wrote: > 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, > Ro> b>> was loading computer data from vinyl. It should > Ro> b>> theoretically be possible to > > Al> They did that a long time ago. They put movies onto large > Al> plastic disks called video discs. I understand they had amazing > Al> sound but for some reason they didn't last long. DVDs took over. > Al> > > 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).. There was the capacitance electronic disc released by RCA in 1981 but it didn't last. It had a stylus like thing and only had 60 minutes per side. It was already old tech when it came out in 1981. The laserdisc was much better quality and released a couple of years earlier. -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 --- SBBSecho 3.27-Linux * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (21:2/101) .