Subj : Re: Movie formats
To   : StormTrooper
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sun May 25 2025 04:12 pm

  Re: Re: Movie formats
  By: StormTrooper to Dumas Walker on Fri May 23 2025 06:19:11

 >  DW> That is interesting.  I wasn't aware that arcade games also used them.
 >
 > So far as I know they're the only two.. essentially the same hardware
 > running two different versions of the same game.  They loaded the video
 > sequences from disc to save on "rom" space.

I think you're right. But on a tangentially related note there is always the BBC Domesday project which made fantastic use of Laserdisc for both imagery and computer data.

I'm kind of surprised nothing else followed on from that, it was really cutting edge at the time. Not to mention that the schools & institutions who bought Domesday paid top dollar for the hardware, it would really have been good to have more than just the one app to run on it!

BobW
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