Oddity Archive: Episode 170.5 - Discovision/Laserdisc Quirks (An Informal Discussion)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In a way, Laserdiscs never really outgrew their experimental phase. Here’s an informal, overview of SOME of the more idiosyncratic Laserdiscs out there (and/or their packaging).
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21:40 - So, random dude is outside of car, says his speech, then when it goes back to the main guy, random dude is just plain gone, even though main guy JUST finished talking with him.
This is clearly a haunted garage, haunted by EXTREMELY professional ghosts.
22:02 When your Laserdisc player suddenly becomes a CED player
You'll see all- you'll see- you'll see- you'll see- you'll see all-
@@GelatinousSSnake "You'll see all the lights come on, indicating you'll see olives..."
that spirograph animation has mildly creeped me out ever since the first time i saw it
You too? At least thinking of Spirograph. lol
21:35 That’s one weird game of Tic-Tac-Toe on the chalkboard in the background.
I believe its very similar to that so called 12-D chess Ive heard so much about
I have a stack of DiscoVision discs my dad originally bought (along with the player, a Pioneer LD1100). That DiscoVision bumper brought back some great memories and I think its time I pulled them back out again...
I heard that mechanic is gonna eat "lotsa Spaghetti"
"Nice of the princess to invite us over to the service center, eh Luigi?"
18:42 thx for this, my right ear enjoyed
gonna cut and use as a sound effect maybe
22:00 so that's how they do vaporwave vocals
22:27 and also asmr
22:00 must have been the inspiration for this track:
ua-cam.com/video/7-BnB3xxUoA/v-deo.html
16:37 I wouldn't be surprised if all or part of that sequence was created with a Scanimate system. As you said earlier, really high tech for the time.
It’s from film elements though, not video.
It seems filmed to me, but I can't quite tell because many of the disc defects look like film dust.
19:24 That's a piece from the Network Music library. It's entitled "Twice the Speed" and can be found on album NM002 "Disco Inferno." I believe it dates from 1979. Unfortunately there is not a lot of info on Network Music out there.
Network Music is part of the "Killer Tracks" library.
21:55 THE BAD ACTING AND THE DUDE DISAPPEARING AT THE END IM CRYINGGGFSDGTFSDTES
20:55 love the vaporwave vibes
17:50 Am I the only person somewhat disturbed by the fact that those footprints end abruptly on that beach?
"I can't explain it! She just walked along the beach and exploded!"
At 17:41, it says "horizontal and vertical resolution check".
Good episode...was interesting to learn how the title sections of DV discs were merely stickers, as well as to see the pizza-type boxes they came in. Also fascinating to see the first-ever YTP, some 20 years before YT was a thing! LOL
Had one of these discovision's (Magnavox player) back in 1979. Got it at a Rich's in Atlanta. Had it a a month or two and returned it as it would not work properly. 1979 was the height of the "disco" fad.
Disco Stu digs DiscoVision ooooh yeahhhh!
That over dramatic DiscoVision bumper after the spirograph scene reminds me of the old NBC peacock color TV promos from the early 60's And jeeez! That spirograph scene was long! Also, the at the time high tech DiscoVision was useless showing good pictures when they were taken by cheap film and cameras. It looked like the NFL picked up footage from the editing room floor there to recycle.
And 19:35 that bastard was tearing down the suburban/residential street on his POS Ford LTD II
22:02 come on! That was totally intentional! Jeep/Eagle wanted to ride on the coat tails of one of the ultimate 80's icons, Max Headroom. And dang! That made me LOL!
The part where the mechanic video starts to skip needs an airhorn sound and someone yelling "REEEEEMIX!"
I have to admit one thing to Benny Boy as a motoring enthusiast; I wasn't aware Eagle was a former AMC division and was subsequently bought by Chrysler...
Eagle was actually spun off from former AMC and Renault cars when the acquisition happened at first, then they created their own cars, or at least siblings of the other divisions' models.
I saw the Jeep/Eagle disc on one of your later "decimal" episodes. I was wondering what went wrong in the mean time...then you showed us the glitch and I'm like, "I knew it was too good to be true."
22:03 That's Rick Smith, Max Headroom's long lost nephew.
I ordered a few discovision laserdiscs
@22:03 It's Max Headroom's auto mechanic brother.
7:28 Like you said, some DiscoVision titles do allow you to view the full bumper. For example, my copy of Richard Pryor's Which Way is Up does allow me to rewind and to see the full bumper, which I've uploaded onto my channel. Unfortunately, my copy also has a lot of rot, a little bit better in terms of sound than your NFL disc (at least IMO), but much worse in picture (there's a moving line that spans the full frame on the upper half of the picture, kinda like on a worn VHS tape. Also, the colors are just bad).
It's unfortunate, as like you said, it is a very nice bumper, especially for the late 1970s. Maybe I might get lucky and find a disc in better shape that'll also allow me to view the full bumper. At least the spirograph is usually fully playable when it appears at the end of the disc, which I can view on all of my discs that use it (some of them, namely the later ones made at the end of the label's life, use the MCA Videodisc side bumpers instead).
I didn't realize Jeep/Eagle serviced KITT from Knight Rider... judging by that intro at least.
The jeep disc is from after March 1987
YTP: Benny-boy Accesses the a$$ of his Eagle Premier.
It's amazing that people went out of their way to make such crap, and here we have an old LD doing a bang up job churning out a hit about an A/C in some crummy car.
Good point ! ❤❤❤
Is that little tone before the Spirograph sequences serving as a “2-pop” or something else?
Probably from a film leader if that was at the start of the spiral thingy. Having a beep come right when the "2" appears is pretty common on those.
My dad had one of those pizzabox design vinyl record... it's kinda odd.
Widescreen LD is basically VHS quality
We were living at the cutting edge back then. (snort)
21:35 "That's NOT how you play Connect Four" or "Now leaving Tic-Tac-Dough."
I laughed at that one, too.
So "Disco Vision" is nothing to do with disco, even though the sleeves sort of look like silver disco suits. Strange .. I know them as Laser Discs.
DiscoVision was the format's first name. In 1980 the format was sold to Pioneer, who used LaserVision and LaserDisc. Some Image Entertainment and European releases used CD Video, which was misleading as the video portion of the disc was analog.
I imagine it went along with the era.
So, did you manage to find out who composed that awesome music from the Jeep/Eagle training disc?
Regarding the music from the Ford training disc, I think whoever was entrusted to come up with a tune was under express instructions to find a compromise between Vangelis's Pulstar and Francis Monkman's Achievements Of Man.
No idea. My best guess is that it's by Keith Mansfield--seems like his style and is from the same period.
Have you tried a Logitech Harmony remote? I use one for my LD and VHS player.
Could you please upload rips of the VideoTec and Ford Motors video to ArchiveAnnex? My channel is mostly these kinds of things and I'd love to see them preserved.
That's an idea.
I am going to get a rock band together called.
TO JUICE?
And the name of the first album.
THE ANGLES OF ALIGNMENT.
I think it could work.
If you put your player in service mode then those dead sides with the error messages will play. You can also scan back to the very beginning on any disc, but be careful doing that as I ruined one player being too careless- it was reading the label then could never refocus properly. A good way to see the beginning is hit still-step and then lightly tap reverse scan until it goes back far enough. Hit Audio Monitor to get rid of the onscreen display that comes on. It will also read past the ending code to the very edge of the disc, every disc has at least black video out to there and some DiscoVision discs have surprises like color bars and the next side starting up.
Thus far, when I put the player into test mode, it causes all the stuff that keeps the audio and video stable in sync completely out of whack, so it's more like watching extra-bad scrambled cable TV.
AFAIK, you need to press the Play button multiple times to get the disc to play correctly
After this video was a link to a creepypasta about a Discovision B side which had an actual Russian snuff movie in which a guy murders a woman brutally and then chops her up with his bandsaw. Anyone else watch this Creepypasta?
That's a real creepypasta?! What's the name of that one?
22:17 -- *Noisepuppet intensifies*
23:47
nice >:]
Highly doubtful there is enough interest in trying to revive Laserdisc as a niche format anytime soon, would be neat if someone out there was crazy enough to do it. It's a shame I only ever encountered these things either in a classroom setting or happened upon someone who owned LD player and some discs. There's something charming about the format that's hard to put my finger on.
Damn worst sounding DiscoVision bumper I've ever heard.
Oh, you card. I had to check my video speed to make sure it wasn't too high.
Think Max Headroom took over?
21:13 , yes, I actually believe you are.
George Nelson. Born to raise hell!
i NEED to see the whole ford disc
Who doesn't?
Wait a minute.. Are you playing plybius or is disco vision trying to hypnotize us?
the theme song sped up reminds me of midevil music
You should start a second channel where you just dump this content in its entirety. Especially if you can find an industrial player. Some of us love this stuff for some reason.
He does have a second channel; it’s called ArchiveAnnex.
Did you mixed-up laser for label at the beginning of the Jeep disc excerpt?
BTW, you gotta upload the best of that Max Headroom lost episode to the annex.
P.S. what a shame that you couldn't get a good quality capture of the DiscoVision logo, it's indeed nice and at the same time kinda scary. I love it.
P.P.S: I hope you aren't still mad over my opinions on the thrifting videos and that I'm not on your mute list.
Not blocked, never were. :)
Thanks.
BTW, is Pavanned gonna be featured in the next Ben's music "career"? I'd like to hear the story behind it.
Given it's the last thing I ever wrote and released, it'd very much be final chapter material (I think Volume 5).
16:08 Its Jontron
...Can't unsee that, and I've only seen his face a couple times!
I have a question.
If it says disco vision dose it contain disco music or disco video's?
Supposedly the name was registered as a trademark back in 1972, and has nothing to do with the music genre.
The skipping in the climate control bit reminds me of UA-cam Poops
Or in Archive's case: A Max Headroom moment! :D