“How high were you back in the late 70s, Grandpa?” “Well Jimmy, we were so high, we thought the best possible way to market our incredible new video format was half an hour of Mr. Spock talking to a blinking rock.”
The two salespeople in the last 15 minutes had some good tips for making any kind of sale/proposal. You sell something based on the benefits it brings to people, not tech specs and numbers.
He's referring to how a magnetic tape/vinyl record format wears out over time because its surface comes in contact with a head drum/stylus to read the material. Since the laserdisc is read with a laser, the disc does not wear out over time and theoretically will last forever. He states that regular handling will not harm the disc.
I worked at a Suncoast Video when Laserdiscs came out. They didn't sell well at my store but I think it was mainly because the players for them were so freakin' expensive. The few people that bought the discs were middle-aged men who wanted you to know how rich they were. Now I want a laserdisc player and my own collection of laserdiscs. Viva Physical Media!
@@OneUponADime At first, videotapes were priced for rental and ran about $75 per copy. Later, they did split pricing; new movies were $75 for a while (a month or two) then the price would go down to $15 or $20. Finally they dropped the initial $75 price.
When I was a kid in the 80's a friend of my from a well to do family had a laser disc player, it was like something straight out of Star Trek as far as I was concerned. I remember watching "Aliens" with them on disc and being blown away by the deleted scenes, something that seemed so new and exciting back then.
"Months of scratching and dirt" You have to forgive this because Laserdiscs had just come out when this was made. But now any videophile will tell you that: 1. NEVER let your discs get dirty, it does indeed impair playback usually with a snowy or poor video depending on the unit and its worse on anything with a semiconductor (LED) laser system (aka: anything 84 or so and up). 2. Scratches also screw up playback including skipped frames, snow, and other artifacts. and 3. Depending on the quality of the laserdisc's pressing, laser rot is the dread of any laserdisc collector meaning when you play the disc you have noise in the soundtrack and/or snow in the video, this means you have a laserdisc about to go bad, or is bad. And finally 4. NEVER pause a laserdisc for very long, this makes the analog and motor components heat up and eventually warps everything from the plastic tray, to the laser casing, to the various gears and motor components, to the disc itself. Its a miracle the technology survived and matured to such an amazing state considering all the bad information given here.
Probably they could not get anyone else cheap enough lol. Common place nowadays dics. Do your discs come with or without disc rot? Who are these two jokers and who wrote the scripts. Stereo sound wow! Not! pretty pointless when you think TV's where all mono and all TV programmes were recorded in mono. Stereo sound was adopted late for TV's. Versatile! in what way. I can see why the VCR took off. I saw the discs in hmv mid 80's but never the players until the mid 90's.
@@groupallflopsandfeet most people in 1979 had a stereo with a line input in 1979, and at that time most blockbuster movies and nearly all music had been in stereo for many years.
I remember my friend buying a Pioneer Laserdisc player when they came out with his student loan money. He also bought an expensive, loud stereo to annoy the neighbors. I remember watching Top Gun with the sound turned halfway up thinking how cool it all was and wishing I could afford one. I wasn't willing to take out access student loans to get one.
29:20 330x480 resolution? That sounds awful but she is correct about that being a 25 percent or so improvement over tape; VHS has about 280 lines or so of horizontal resolution, which is 280x480. Also, I know that 1990s LaserDiscs had *much* better color than VHS did.
Consumer demo: 3:20 "If nothing touches the disc, there's no wear out factor, and it will play equally well time after time ... Obviously scratches won't affect this coated surface" For dealers only: 24:35 "Please, for the love of God, keep the demo discs clean so that they don't fail during a demo"
Hi, I'm from argentina. I, alongside with some colleagues, run a cycle in which we project films exclusively on laserdisc. We'd really love to show this video on the cycle (we can't get this particular laserdisc) but we need to create spanish subtitles for it. Please, would you activate the contributions on this video so we can add the subtitles? thanks
14:13 This low powered laser can be re-calibrated to produce a high powered beam capable of destroying a planet, thus transforming the Magnavision into a weapons platform capable of affording its owner control of the entire galaxy.
early, development of the,d v d,as today!!/ what was the price of the,player + disks, back in 1981?. also R C A made some also!!/ but the bottom of the disks were black on bottom! ✝️💒💟🙏😊
The disc is called "Leonard Nimoy Demonstrates the Magnavision Videodisc Player", I inserted pictures of the cover and back of the packaging throughout the video. It was a demo only disc used in stores rather than a retail disc.
There's something wrong in the comments above, this is not a lazerdisc but a laservision. These are two different formats. laservision apeared in the 70s.
The format most commonly known as laserdisc had many names. It launched in 1978 with the awesome name "MCA Discovision." By 1980 Pioneer was the main driving force behind the format and renamed it to "Laservison." I think it became "Laserdisc" once they added the digital audio track. It was also sometimes called "Laser Video Disc" and even "CD Video".
Yes they are the same format. LV/LD/CDV make up the ANALOG format. The most used name until the conclusion of player production in 2007 was LaserDisc. Pioneer was the last maker. The format many confuse with this format is the pre DVD format called Video CD or VCD. This technology is the beginning of the DIGITAL format as it used the Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) layer 1. About 1 hour video per side on a standard CD disc. But this tech required an MPEG 1 decoder, computer with MPEG 1 playback, or VCD dedicated player. VCD is common in bootleg and in countries where (at the time) DVD was either not available, or was too expensive. DVD /Blu Ray is the current standard and all digital.
29:29 "...to say nothing of the fact that that picture quality is not going to deteriorate with time." As we all sit here in the far flung future watching the black speckles of disk rot throughout the video.
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The clarity of LaserDisc is amazing! With VHS, I never even saw Leonard Nimoy's mustache!
Yo made me laugh.. Thank you :)
😂😂😂
Yeah, that mustache of his didn’t even show up on Blu-Ray copies of Star Trek. What’s going on here?
“How high were you back in the late 70s, Grandpa?”
“Well Jimmy, we were so high, we thought the best possible way to market our incredible new video format was half an hour of Mr. Spock talking to a blinking rock.”
Your memory is slipping, grandpa. Spock only talked to the rock for ten minutes.
🤪
Nimoy’s nails polished to perfection.
The two salespeople in the last 15 minutes had some good tips for making any kind of sale/proposal. You sell something based on the benefits it brings to people, not tech specs and numbers.
Your statement is...highly logical.
"I see, if nothing touches the disc's surface...."
*proceeds to touch the disks surface for the rest of the video*
I didn't want to believe my eyes. Maybe I'm not seeing this right...
He's referring to how a magnetic tape/vinyl record format wears out over time because its surface comes in contact with a head drum/stylus to read the material. Since the laserdisc is read with a laser, the disc does not wear out over time and theoretically will last forever. He states that regular handling will not harm the disc.
Nope. As he explains, there is a cover over the disc.
I worked at a Suncoast Video when Laserdiscs came out. They didn't sell well at my store but I think it was mainly because the players for them were so freakin' expensive. The few people that bought the discs were middle-aged men who wanted you to know how rich they were. Now I want a laserdisc player and my own collection of laserdiscs. Viva Physical Media!
Suncoast was around in 1979?
eyeh8nbc When they went mass market. It was early 80s.
bunch of loafer wearing 'connoisseur' types of guys who have known nothing but comfort
Huh weird it says in the vid that they were cheaper
@@OneUponADime At first, videotapes were priced for rental and ran about $75 per copy. Later, they did split pricing; new movies were $75 for a while (a month or two) then the price would go down to $15 or $20. Finally they dropped the initial $75 price.
Of course he understands the glowing rock - he's Leonard Nimoy.
You might say that because of Leonard Nimoy's role on Star Trek, he was the only 'LOGICAL" choice to hawk a futuristic technology like this one; ;D
"You want me in a Magnavision commercial? Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a pitch man!"
Must buy Laserdisc player for Nimoy
FOR NIIIIIMOOOOOOY
AVGN
When I was a kid in the 80's a friend of my from a well to do family had a laser disc player, it was like something straight out of Star Trek as far as I was concerned. I remember watching "Aliens" with them on disc and being blown away by the deleted scenes, something that seemed so new and exciting back then.
"Months of scratching and dirt" You have to forgive this because Laserdiscs had just come out when this was made. But now any videophile will tell you that: 1. NEVER let your discs get dirty, it does indeed impair playback usually with a snowy or poor video depending on the unit and its worse on anything with a semiconductor (LED) laser system (aka: anything 84 or so and up). 2. Scratches also screw up playback including skipped frames, snow, and other artifacts. and 3. Depending on the quality of the laserdisc's pressing, laser rot is the dread of any laserdisc collector meaning when you play the disc you have noise in the soundtrack and/or snow in the video, this means you have a laserdisc about to go bad, or is bad. And finally 4. NEVER pause a laserdisc for very long, this makes the analog and motor components heat up and eventually warps everything from the plastic tray, to the laser casing, to the various gears and motor components, to the disc itself. Its a miracle the technology survived and matured to such an amazing state considering all the bad information given here.
Not bad information. Just the usual lies.
Rest in peace and live long and Prosper, Leonard Nimoy, The Original Spock from Star Trek 1931-2015.
Thats not Spock, its Leonard Nimoy
The ONLY Spock. There is no substitute or replacement for Leonard Nimoy.
1:35 "Yes, I understand you. I'm Leonard Nimoy!" Man! How drunk was he?
12:46 Leonard basically explains the creation of not just LaserDiscs, but its descendants (DVDs, HD DVDs, Video CDs and Blu-Ray Discs).
he only talks about laserdiscs
@@jessihawkins9116 I know, the method of creation is the same for the others as well.
All of that technology... And Spock chooses to watch ABBA.
And old football games from the 1980s.
I might have known.
Yes, Spock possesses an intelligence light-years ahead of ours.
Probably they could not get anyone else cheap enough lol. Common place nowadays dics. Do your discs come with or without disc rot? Who are these two jokers and who wrote the scripts. Stereo sound wow! Not! pretty pointless when you think TV's where all mono and all TV programmes were recorded in mono. Stereo sound was adopted late for TV's. Versatile! in what way. I can see why the VCR took off.
I saw the discs in hmv mid 80's but never the players until the mid 90's.
@@groupallflopsandfeet most people in 1979 had a stereo with a line input in 1979, and at that time most blockbuster movies and nearly all music had been in stereo for many years.
Hell yeah ABBA. It's not logical, but at the time, it seemed like a good idea....
Leonard Nimoy having interaction with a rock. Wasn't this originally the plot for an episode of Star Trek?
The Horta.
I wish I'd been able to get Leonard Nemoy to sign a copy of "How to watch American football"
Love how the analog audio track had a crackle if there was any kind of mater on the disc. The later ones with digital sound didn't suffer from that.
leonard nimoy is the coolest
From 1981…..(R.I.P., Leonard Nimoy.)
All tech details here:
www.lddb.com/laserdisc/28909/07-562/Leonard-Nimoy-Demonstrates-the-Magnavision-Videodisc-Player
23:22 You kidding? I never get tired of playing Demo in TF2.
It’s one of the best classes.😁
LOL!
AVGN sent me here! Thanks to the game "Seaman" for the Dreamcast.
MTN Productions whats the connection from that to this?
@@OneUponADimeyeah 🤔
Thank you, Willie. 22:43
I remember my friend buying a Pioneer Laserdisc player when they came out with his student loan money. He also bought an expensive, loud stereo to annoy the neighbors. I remember watching Top Gun with the sound turned halfway up thinking how cool it all was and wishing I could afford one. I wasn't willing to take out access student loans to get one.
I wonder if he’s still paying on his loans 🤔
Skip to 26:00 to see why Laserdisc never took off at the time.
29:20 330x480 resolution? That sounds awful but she is correct about that being a 25 percent or so improvement over tape; VHS has about 280 lines or so of horizontal resolution, which is 280x480. Also, I know that 1990s LaserDiscs had *much* better color than VHS did.
How awesome is Nimoy's living room here?
Consumer demo:
3:20 "If nothing touches the disc, there's no wear out factor, and it will play equally well time after time ... Obviously scratches won't affect this coated surface"
For dealers only:
24:35 "Please, for the love of God, keep the demo discs clean so that they don't fail during a demo"
The cable box had 15 buttons, but there never wasn't something on, until pay per view, but that was a decade later.
Hi, I'm from argentina. I, alongside with some colleagues, run a cycle in which we project films exclusively on laserdisc. We'd really love to show this video on the cycle (we can't get this particular laserdisc) but we need to create spanish subtitles for it. Please, would you activate the contributions on this video so we can add the subtitles? thanks
All the good scenes edited out for television
Even Spock was rockin' a mustache in the 70's.
22:42 Engage bore factor 10.
This comment takes the gold😂! Damn, I haven’t laughed this hard in a while LOL
Wow!! thats awesome!! from Original disc!
How much were VHS tapes at the time? I remember when I was a kid a terminator 2 laserdisc was $79.99 where a VHS of the same movie was $19.99.
Terminator 2 originally cost $99.99 on VHS.
Robin hood (1973) came out on vhs in 1984, msrp was 79.99
Why didn't they have Mr. Nimoy dancing to Abba???
Laserdisc: The final frontier...
10:08 When your girl says: “Not Tonight”
She sounds like Wilma flintstone!
The repeated 'tape just cant be as good as a record (that is mastered from a tape)' really is hilarious.
It is recorded from a Umatic not a VHS or BETA tape.
I could never get enough CAV discs in my country, pausing was not possible unless one had Constantly angled velocity discs…. more expensive.
I want one.
0:14 - 0:44 HBO Boxing was using this as their theme song during this time period.
14:13 This low powered laser can be re-calibrated to produce a high powered beam capable of destroying a planet, thus transforming the Magnavision into a weapons platform capable of affording its owner control of the entire galaxy.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude I was watching that ABBA vid just yesterday LMAO
When is this from?
1981
Gourmet video? How does it taste?
15:31 Jeeze Nimoy, just slam that thing like you didn't pay for it why don't you.
early, development of the,d v d,as today!!/ what was the price of the,player + disks, back in 1981?. also R C A made some also!!/ but the bottom of the disks were black on bottom! ✝️💒💟🙏😊
“How to do a Tennis.”
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22:32 "The way that you make money with MagnaVision of course is to sell it".
Wow, really?
How many drugs has he taken in order to talk to a pet rock?
Which disc is this from
The disc is called "Leonard Nimoy Demonstrates the Magnavision Videodisc Player", I inserted pictures of the cover and back of the packaging throughout the video. It was a demo only disc used in stores rather than a retail disc.
@@LaserdiscTurtle ohhh ok that makes sense. I’ve been trying to find this disc. Really hard to find is my guess?
What year is this from?
Oh 1981 there we are
from....1981!
I still buy discs, and use my player all of the time. They are a bitch to move, but i love the bigger cover art.
The beeping.
Dirty Lennie. Love it.
Nimoy rules
I'm surprised Leonard nimoy didn't mention X adult films in the advertisement
Are you? Are you really??
laserdisc i mean magavision is logical for theatrical mixes , pionner laserdisc logical
It takes a confident man to wear white long underwear as pants unironically
330 lines of resolution!!?!??! ooooooohhhhhh
VHS was only 240
i have these Player
LaserDiscingo LDba is it awesome?
how funny...they actually thought folks would want to learn stuff using the system.
Phillips thought the same thing about the CD-I.
There's something wrong in the comments above, this is not a lazerdisc but a laservision. These are two different formats. laservision apeared in the 70s.
The format most commonly known as laserdisc had many names. It launched in 1978 with the awesome name "MCA Discovision." By 1980 Pioneer was the main driving force behind the format and renamed it to "Laservison." I think it became "Laserdisc" once they added the digital audio track. It was also sometimes called "Laser Video Disc" and even "CD Video".
WorldOfGlass but all the same format right?
Yes they are the same format. LV/LD/CDV make up the ANALOG format. The most used name until the conclusion of player production in 2007 was LaserDisc. Pioneer was the last maker. The format many confuse with this format is the pre DVD format called Video CD or VCD. This technology is the beginning of the DIGITAL format as it used the Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) layer 1. About 1 hour video per side on a standard CD disc. But this tech required an MPEG 1 decoder, computer with MPEG 1 playback, or VCD dedicated player. VCD is common in bootleg and in countries where (at the time) DVD was either not available, or was too expensive. DVD /Blu Ray is the current standard and all digital.
Abba is so old! wow
obviously scratches wont effect the surface he never owned a playstation 2
PlayStation 2s don’t play laserdiscs 🤨
29:29 "...to say nothing of the fact that that picture quality is not going to deteriorate with time."
As we all sit here in the far flung future watching the black speckles of disk rot throughout the video.
Спок с усами это странно. 😅
R2D2 gimmick huh?
His murderer was never caught.
Whose?
??
Hahaha, 36:12.
How many drugs has he taken in order to talk to a pet rock?
How many drugs has he taken in order to talk to a pet rock?
No drugs. Look at an episode of Star Trek called "The Devil in the Dark" where Mr Spock(Leonard Nimoy) talks with a rock.
@@michaelturner4457 That probably makes more sense than most things in life :D