Pioneer LaserDisc - What It Is with Patrick O'Neal
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- This is the video of the "LaserDisc - What It Is" product demonstration featuring Patrick O'Neal.
Please note that some programming samples have been edited out due to copyright.
Technical aspects:
The video has been taken from the original LaserDisc, played on a Pioneer LD-660 LaserDisc Player. Video output was CVBS (composite). This video was captured using a Dell video capture device on a Dell Dimension 4600 running Windows XP. MediaPortal was the software used to perform the video capture. A conversion utility was employed to remux the DVR-MS file into a proper MPEG2 file. The MPEG2 file is then transferred to my MacBook Pro where, with the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 playback component and MPEG Streamclip, the MPEG2 file is deinterlaced, scaled from 720x480 to 640x480, and transcoded into an MEPG4 H.264 file.
This video made with Windows/made on a Mac.
Mr. O' Neal had a very distinctive voice to my ear, similar to Jason Robards.
Quite a classy actor as I recall from the Films /TV Movies that I have seen him in .
He passed away in 1994.
I saw this demo in a store in San Antonio back in the early 80's...when I heard Rita Coolidge singing....and the, at the time, unbelievable sound...I bought one! The same one being demonstrated here. I still have it packed away somewhere in my basement along with several movies. My favorite is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club with Peter Frampton as Billy Shears. The music on that one is amazing!
Listening to Rita Coolidge's song and watching her sing was a major contributor to selling me on this format back then.
That and listening to Patrick O'Neill's account of the history of sound & picture reproductions.
"Get me a whiskey Johnny, I'm gonna knock out this goddamn laserdisc commercial in one take."
In 1989 when I went to work for a cutting edge AV house in Washington, this was the highest level source we had and we used this exact disc to demo the most advanced projectors and displays we used. It's great to see someone has posted it. Really, when you consider that this is standard definition, old fashioned interlaced video, and uses lousy 3.58 mHz heterodyne color this image is pretty impressive. Rock solid, no tearing, no drop outs. Despite the old 15.75 kHz/60Hz (essentially 640x480) signal, its held up really well.
I'm 24 years old and up until about 6 moths ago I had no idea LD even existed. It must have been very poorly marketed. I asked my parents and they had no idea either. It's clearly so much better than VHS, I can't understand why it never fully took off.
Jordan Coles It wasn't poorly marketed, it was just that VHS was far more convenient and the video players were cheaper. Laserdisks were as big as an LP record and movies often came on multiple disks. VHS was just "pop it in and go" more convenient.
I remember Laser Discs mainly were used in corporate world for training and business related purposes. They never gained mainstream acceptance due to several reasons: VHS and Beta video tapes were cheap and convenient plus with many video shops such as Blockbuster Video it was cheap for masses to rent video titles. LD discs were large, heavy and cumbersome to handle and expensive with LD players expensive too. Sometimes longer movies had to span two discs. There were for a short time used by those with money who liked to be on the leading edge of technology who wanted benefits of clearer video, separate audio / channel benefits. For music, CD's became mainstream only a few years after after LaserDiscs and quickly became the norm.
Jordan Coles It did well in Asia. Japan and south east asia preferred laserdiscs over vhs at video rental stores. Also the cover art was amazing.
I love Patrice O'Neal.
Me too.
Patrick this actor, or Patrice the comedian?😂
@@sbrownie The comic 🤣
Jesus! Look at what kind of an advanced technology, these guys had back then, while, we, here in Greece, were "flying in the fogs" on those days! Even the simplest of VHS devices were extremely expensive in our country at that time, and they were literally a luxury for few, while we had to wait for mid 1990's to receive our first compact disks here (even though we did received commercial papers for CDs in a school excursion we had, at Athen's Olympic stadium at late '80s)!
THEO NEMESIS Pay debts.
When I saw this demonstration video, back in early 1981, I was sold on it instantly. I'm wondering if this demonstration is available on DVD, to show this First Generation laser-video format as a Relic; it should definitely be honored as a relic.
This is a old video from pioneer for laserdisc. I never knew that laserdisc was around untill 1993 when I seen one at my cousins house .Dvd is ok , blu-ray great . But I favor laserdisc the best . The year 2000 was the last time that hollywood made copies for us to view new material . Dvd came around and that was the end of it .
This is pure gold right here! Unlike DVDS
I'm sold! Where can I buy one?
kxmode I just did and am under 30.
This was a big deal in the day. I used to stand in the video and department stores and watch this demo. the players were like a grand or so, so we didn't have one u until they came out with a cheaper version that I got in 1984.
Why can't there make videos like this today to clearly explained how the technology works and have us relate to it 📀
The future is NOW
I love this stuff!
IT'S LINDA RONSTADT, WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE LINDA RONSTADT. IT'S A ROD STEWART CONCERT WITHOUT BATTLING THE CROWDS. Oh boy.
Hey, does anybody know if that chinese cooking show was produced for disc?
That kid in Deliverance looks like the kid in The Middle.
it was that was Yan Can Cook
"If Yan can cook, so can Yu!"
Why the hell are they are touching the disc when it scratches the tv
I would never touch my LD's like that lol
What is model of laserdisc player shown here?
Pioneer VP-1000
Did LD have a n anti piracy system, such as Macrovision¡? I mean -> pirating LD into VHS.
None; LD never used Macrovision or any other known copyguard system.
Specifically for Macrovision, the Macrovision jammer would have interfered with player control codes as well as timecode in the video signal vertical blanking.
supermasterPIK NO IT DIDNT
I wish T.V. was still land of the situational comedy and not land of reality t.v. trash.
In 2015, what I want to see is situational comedies and I have to use Netflix to watch Fuller House.
That is so sad.
I said that it was bull, because he was touching the disc on the parts you should never touch. Also, don't worry, I always handle my LD's like a record.
now i got bluray
Television got better? I Love Lucy is the best T.V. show of all time so technically, it got worse.
5:07 That's a bunch of bullcrap.
10:42 lol propaganda