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Tag results: Laserdisc

A Quiet Odyssey

The Magnavox Odyssey², a groundbreaking video game console, never reached the heights of the Atari 2600—but it lived plenty of extra lives.

Sep 24, 2022

Sing Your Heart Out

From 8-Track to Laserdisc to CD+G to ISDN lines to YouTube, the different technologies that made karaoke possible. (Alcohol helps, too.)

Aug 10, 2017

Who Killed The Encyclopedia?

The fast demise of the physical encyclopedia came about thanks to an upstart publisher, an indecisive giant, and the world’s biggest software company.

Jul 13, 2017

When Discs Die

CDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the disc rot phenomenon, is more complicated.

Feb 02, 2017

Format War Footnotes

Laserdisc, anyone? How about HitClips? And what's the deal with slotMusic? All these media formats were made for some reason. We're not sure why.

Sep 04, 2015

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