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MCA DiscoVision, Inc. was a division of entertainment giant MCA (Music Corporation of America), established in 1969 to develop and sell an optical videodisc system.
LaserDisc. The LaserDisc ( LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978. Its diameter typically spans 30 cm (12 in).
May 11, 2023 · The world has just been introduced to DiscoVision, a system for home-media viewing developed by Magnavox Consumer Electronics (MCA). Four years earlier, Science had reported on MCA’s plans to build and market a “ laser-based system as early as 1976 for as little as $500 .”
Mar 22, 2020 · 16K views 4 years ago. Thanks to a magical invention known as "Test Mode", I'm able to effectively force my LaserDisc player to start playing behind the start marker for the disc, allowing me to...
This was the very first publicly-available demonstration laserdisc (there had been a few for prototype display uses only before this.) It shows a bit on how ...
Jul 17, 2009 · The Magnavox Magnavision Model 8000 DiscoVision Videodisc Player was a “record player that produces beautiful sound and pictures” through your TV. Released in 1978, Magnavision 8000 was the...
Dec 7, 2023 · Initially launched in 1978 under the era-appropriate title of ‘DiscoVision’, the 12-inch discs became massively popular in Japan and in the United Kingdom to a lesser extent, although the all-important foothold in the United States proved hard to come by.
