No the 'tool' is the person who said........
"holy crap is the picture quality crap. lol "
who ever that fool was.
Is the F-86 Sabrejet 'crap' because the F-4 & the F-15 & the F-22 came along?
Laserdisc line resolution was at the limit that the TVs at the time could handle.
Laserdisc was the pinnacle of home video for 10 years until DVD came along.
It 'Pioneered' multiple audio tracks, chapter access, 5.1 audio, special features etc.
stuff that VHS/beta couldn't even dream of. The whiole drift of the opening post is that laserdisc was lame, but we didn't know any better. Wrong, it wasn't lame and some of us DID know better.
Very rarely does a home video format stay on top for a full ten years.
VHS never had the top picture even though it was dominant.
HDDVD was on top for 6 months. Blu-ray has been for about two years. think it will be in 2016?
The opening post was a mismash of innacurate info and total nonsense about the format.
I don't need to read every post in a thread to comment on on the opening post. glad the opening poster found out he was wrong.
After 5 people had pointed it out. The last Laserdiscs were pressed in 2000. Nemesis came out on video in 2003--that's a pretty big miss.
Calling me a tool and 'miss' (HA-hA that's funny he made fun of my masculinity
) may make somebody feel good, but making a coherent opening post in a thread might also give somebody the same feeling.
BY the way......you're the one who 'miss spoke'
Laserdisc had 425 lines of resolution and VHS had about 240 and you can't see the difference. That is one terrible set of eyes you have since that represents about 5X the clarity.
[edit] Laserdisc vs. VHS
LD had a number of advantages over
VHS. It featured a far sharper picture with a horizontal
resolution of 425 TVL lines for NTSC[
citation needed] and 440 TVL lines for PAL discs, while VHS featured only 240 TVL lines with NTSC. It could handle analog and digital audio where VHS was mostly analog only (VHS can have PCM audio in professional applications but is uncommon), and the NTSC discs could store multiple audio tracks. This allowed for extras like director's commentary tracks and other features to be added on to a film, creating "Special Edition" releases that would not have been possible with VHS. Disc access was random and chapter based, like the DVD format, meaning that one could jump to any point on a given disc very quickly. By comparison, VHS would require tedious rewinding and fast-forwarding to get to specific points. Laserdiscs were cheaper than videocassettes to manufacture, because they lack the moving parts and plastic outer shell that are necessary for VHS tapes to work, and the duplication process was much simpler. A VHS cassette has at least 14 parts including the actual tape while laserdisc has one part with five or six layers. A disc can be stamped out in a matter of seconds; duplicating videotape required a complex bulk tape duplication mechanism and was a timeconsuming process.
Moreover, because the discs are read optically instead of magnetically, no physical contact needs to be made between the player and the disc, except for the player's clamp that holds the disc at its center as it is spun and read. As a result, playback does not wear the information-bearing part of the discs, and properly manufactured LDs will theoretically last beyond one's lifetime (however, see
Laser rot, below). By contrast, a VHS tape holds all of its picture and sound information on the tape in a magnetic coating which is in contact with the spinning heads on the head drum, causing progressive wear with each use. Also, the tape is thin and delicate, and it is easy for a player mechanism (especially on a low quality or malfunctioning model) to mishandle the tape and damage it by creasing it, frilling (stretching) its edges, or even breaking it.
