Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I’m gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes
Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I’m gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes
It occurs to me that I could totally put a short movie on a vinyl record. It would display “buffering” for quite a while though.
Theoretically you could get it with little to no buffering by writing an analog TV signal to the disk, no?
And just like that, you’ve invented laserdisc.
Reinvent the wheel? No, it’s time to reinvent outdated media formats!
Hey, the tape drive never even went out of style!
There was the Japanese VHD (Video High Density) that was kind of that. https://youtu.be/fCWLaAwr3sM
The concept of vinyl still blows my mind… The fact that you can recreate every possible combination of sounds and etch it in grooves on a thin piece of plastic, then you can drag a needle across those grooves to hear the sound combinations again…
How does a person even create something like that? It’s mind blowing.
I think it was done with wax cylinders first, somewhat earlier! So at least for vinyl, there was strong technological precedent.
In the early days, it was quite a simple device! Sort of a cone to focus sound waves, with a membrane at the end attached to an engraver that carves wax. I bet it was quite hard to make those mechanical systems reliable, but I can sort of see how someone goes from “sound is a pressure wave in air” to that device!