For the record, when the Spin Doctors were young and hungry, they played a couple of the most amazing live concerts I've ever seen. Fun as hell, super-funky, dirty, loose, high-energy rock and roll shows at the Bayou in DC. Some bands are just better before they can afford better drugs, and plenty are better in dingy,…

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Thanks for the clarification! CED was before my time.

I occasionally use mine as well. For years, it was the only way to see the original "Star Wars" trilogy without the extra effects squeezed into every spare bit of frame.

The plastic videodisc was essentially the same technology, just encapsulated in a plastic shell. Later advancements in coating the optical surface of the disc made the shell unnecessary—and led straight to the modern DVD!

Sounds like it, when you hold it up to your ear, too.

Everything, EVERYTHING you like about home theater started on Laserdisc. LD existed for years before the first commercial videotape decks. You can compare 3DTV to HDDVD with some accuracy, but comparing it to laserdisc makes less than no historical sense. It's pure ignorance.

Laserdisc had superior video to VHS or Beta and incomparably better sound, not to mention featuring such non-videotape add-ons as director's commentaries, alternate audio tracks, multi-channel surround sound, making-of documentaries, alternate endings, extended cuts, and deleted scenes. You like your DVDs and…