The first laser videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then Pioneer, savior of ...

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Une page de l'histoire de la vidéo se tourne avec la disparition définitive du format LaserDisc suite à la décision de Pioneer de stopper la fabrication des lecteurs. Pour les plus anciens, le ...

...but its not in 100% working order. Allow me to explain. The unit does play discs, and when it plays them, it plays them well. However, I have had a few problems with the unit. First off, sometimes ...

Just for the fun of it, let’s dive off that runaway wagon train of technology. Let’s put off DVD — hey, it already put us off for more than a year — and all those new big-screen TVs and all those new ...

The first laser-videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then the Pioneer people ...

Remember Laserdiscs? Those large-size video mediums almost no one outside Japan bought in the 1980s and 1990s? I never thought I would write another post on LDs after the one in January this year in ...

Yes, we're just as shocked and horrified to hear the news as you are, but it seems to be true. Pioneer, the last major electronics manufacturer to continue production of laserdisc players, has ...

Pioneer today announced in Tokyo [JP] that they will no longer manufacture LaserDisc players. The DVL-919, CLD-R5, DVK-900 and DVL-K88 are the last models available. The company has been in the LD ...

I have inherited a fairly large collection of Laserdiscs, and an elderly Pioneer Laserdisc player. <BR><BR>The collection includes the Star-wars boxed set which is presented in a way better format ...