1997 Pioneer DVD demo disc- main segment

As much as I love Pioneer, this is embarassingly bad and made me cringe when I saw this playing in a store when it was new. The way he explains letterboxing is ridiculous, and there's a montage of movie art (taken from laserdisc covers) of titles that took YEARS to come out on DVD- Fox wasn't even supporting the format at all when this was made!
At least it acknowledges laserdisc, and I wasn't yet convinced that DVD would be an improvement over it. In fact I thought it would be a mess of compression artifacts yet kill laserdisc off anyways.

[@LASERDISCDREAM]

Pioneer DVD Demo disc Yay I had that one. 👍😎

[@jorgezarco9269]

Jet Li from Black Mask(1996) is armed with killer CD's.

[@joshcoe]

pioneer

[@Ale.K7]

I remember being so disappointed when I saw the first DVD players when I was a kid... For some reason the stores in my area appeared to always show action movies (or demo discs with segments from action movies, I don't know), full of explosions, rapid movements... and compression artifacts. I had only recently experienced Laser Discs for the first time and thought DVDs were inferior!

[@GabePickles3837]

Sick demo. Love the music. Also, the picture quality itself looks like it was taken straight out of a Laserdisc or videotape of some sort.

[@WattTheTech]

Did they forget to hire the steadycam operator

[@GothikBeerTV]

Naahhh... DVD is way too action-packed for that.

[@sherryhannah9262]

I hope y’all will reply to this 7 years later I bought my first DVD player it was a Sylvania VCR/DVD combo

[@jorgezarco9269]

DVD Disc. MPEG-2. 4.7 GB.

[@JesusChrist-em1iz]

Early DVDS stunk and weren't much better than Laserdiscs and in my opinion Laserdiscs are cooler.

[@GothikBeerTV]

I wonder who the guy is?

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

The DVD guy 😆

[@DavidSusiloUnscripted]

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