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 ...

Pioneer announced this week that it was halting the production of its line of Laserdisc players. If you are shocked that the electronics giant was still making Laserdisc players, you are not alone.

Pioneer is ceasing production of their three remaining LaserDisc players, marking the end of major manufacture for players of the giant, shiny, long-obsolete format. Pioneer had continued to build ...

Reports of UFOs are true. Laserdiscs have been flying out of the stores this year. The uninitiated mistake them for unidentified flying objects, since their silvery surfaces spin rapidly. Those in the ...

Leonard Nimoy wasn’t only Spock on Star Trek. He was a celebrated stage actor and director of many successful films like Three Men and a Baby. But he would also willingly cash in on his good name as a ...

The relentless march of technological development means once cutting edge inventions are continually being relegated to the scrapheap, or at least the musty bottom drawer. From what might have been to ...

For most gamers, the Pioneer LaserActive is the ultimate "wait, that existed?" console. Released in 1993, it was part LaserDisc player, part Sega Genesis, part NEC ...

It was estimated that in 1998, LaserDisc players were in approximately 2% of U.S. households (roughly two million). By comparison, in 1999, players were in 10% of Japanese households and a total of ...

...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 ...

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 ...