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LaserDisc was the first commercial optical disc storage medium, a home video format developed by Philips, Pioneer, and MCA that arrived in the U.S. in 1978 under the name DiscoVision. Its 300-millimeter discs, sized like a 12-inch record, held analog video with resolution of 425 to 440 TV lines — nearly double that of VHS or Betamax and approaching what DVD would later deliver. It offered CD-quality digital audio and
Despite its technical advantages, LaserDisc never achieved widespread adoption in North America, and it was discontinued in September 2001. The format lived on in memory as a pioneering leap — a beloved bridge between magnetic tape and the digital discs that followed, and the reason we still call any disc-format leader a LaserVision at heart.
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