Not even kidding, but today at The Big Yellow Price Tag we had a customer ask if we sold Laserdisc players and VCRs.
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VCRs I can sort of understand, but laserdisc players? I still own mine, but I don't think I've watched a movie on laserdisc since 1998.
Heh, last year I was taking a walk, and saw a battered VHS copy of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead by the side of the road. I was half-tempted to take it home and see if it still worked.
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Has he cured his Boneitis yet?
Seriously, though, WTF? I will admit that LaserDisc technology stuck around a lot longer than you might think. Here in the US, the movies were produced into the 2000s, but the format continued to be popular for karaoke (mostly in Japan, naturally) well beyond that. Pioneer produced their final LD player, the DVL-919 (which could also play DVDs and CDs) from 1999 until about 2009. A local electronics store actually had a later LaserDisc player (DVL-V888, IIRC) available for sale until fairly recently. They might still have it, actually, though I doubt it'd be going anywhere with its $999 price tag..........
Being a retro technology enthusiast, I have a few LaserDisc players, along with several LaserDisc titles (mostly comedy, action/adventure and sci-fi titles). I also have a few players for RCA's Selectavision CED format, which died out a long time ago. If the guy had asked about CEDs, you can all but guarantee that he just awoke from a time-stasis pod of some sort, and there might be a lab somewhere looking for him..........
-Adam
PS: The LaserDisc format was also the basis for one of the first high-definition video playback formats (Japan-only, AFAIK), known as MUSE. One of the MUSE players can be seen here. Guessing the format wouldn't work with modern HDTVs, of course, but it'd be interesting to see in action.
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I saw an electric typewriter in bent staple yesterday.AkaiKitsune
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostVCRs I can sort of understand, but laserdisc players? I still own mine, but I don't think I've watched a movie on laserdisc since 1998.
Heh, last year I was taking a walk, and saw a battered VHS copy of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead by the side of the road. I was half-tempted to take it home and see if it still worked.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Bought a VCr
Quoth mjr View PostYeah, I get VCRs too. I still have a number of VHS tapes at home. We have a DVD/VCR combo, and two broken VCRs.
Somehow the idea of pressing the DVD button on the remote before pressing the play button was to complicated for her.
Please note, this is the same woman who could never learn how to use a VCR until I was at my cabin up North for a week and she wanted to record the previous royal wedding. Somehow she learnt when she really needed to.
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Quoth Rosco the Iroc View PostI saw an electric typewriter in bent staple yesterday.
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Quoth TheSHAD0W View PostIt might. Looks like it's outputting on S-video. The A/D setups used in modern TVs are surprisingly flexible.
-Adam
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Quoth Minflick View PostSelectrics were GREAT typewriters!I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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I don't have a LaserDisc player, but I do have a Selectavision CED player. But I'd never think of trying to buy movies for it at Yellow Pricetag! Or anywhere else but online.
Funny story, when I bought it I thought it was a LaserDisc player, but since it came with 20 movies, I was able to watch anyway.
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Quoth Sparklyturtle View PostI've got an electric typewriter that's more like a word processor without a screen, but I haven't used it in years.
Quoth Silent-Hunter View PostI don't have a LaserDisc player, but I do have a Selectavision CED player. But I'd never think of trying to buy movies for it at Yellow Pricetag! Or anywhere else but online.
Funny story, when I bought it I thought it was a LaserDisc player, but since it came with 20 movies, I was able to watch anyway.
-Adam
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