[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Anyone have an old laserdisc player?

[Matt Patoray]

Here is the beginning of one of the GM laserdiscs, you will here some FSK audio at the beginning, that is to program the CPU in the pioneer PR-7820 to go into "interactive mode" 

This copy is from a defective pressing, that was then used on side 6 or the dead side of Jaws.

There where a lot of problems with defective pressings because MCA/DiscoVision thought that optical video discs could be pressed under the same conditions as LP records.... WRONG!

https://youtu.be/zG5S_NWLwIQ

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> On Jul 28, 2016, at 8:28 PM, Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/28/2016 08:32 AM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Yes, some of the discs have a touch laser rot... at least a visible
>> colored wave. None are extreme though, not as bad as this:
>> https://psap.library.illinois.edu/assets/laserdisc-rot01-1500-d1baafba0c9e1e060743272e1b491a7c.jpg
>>  They're early discs, branded as MCA Disco Vision.
>> 
>> Here's what one of the discs did in my player. When the machine
>> reached a bad spot in the disc it would give up after a moment. If I
>> used the jog control sometimes I could skip over the bad part:
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgF9BalTHSY
>> 
>> This was one of the older discs, but despite having some rot it still
>> played acceptably:
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLazvGWOg
> Unfortunately me and my laserdisc players are on the wrong side of the country these days, but I just have to say, the opening to that second one is amazing...