21:40 - So, random dude is outside of car, says his speech, then when it goes back to the main guy, random dude is just plain gone, even though main guy JUST finished talking with him. This is clearly a haunted garage, haunted by EXTREMELY professional ghosts.
I have a stack of DiscoVision discs my dad originally bought (along with the player, a Pioneer LD1100). That DiscoVision bumper brought back some great memories and I think its time I pulled them back out again...
19:24 That's a piece from the Network Music library. It's entitled "Twice the Speed" and can be found on album NM002 "Disco Inferno." I believe it dates from 1979. Unfortunately there is not a lot of info on Network Music out there.
Good episode...was interesting to learn how the title sections of DV discs were merely stickers, as well as to see the pizza-type boxes they came in. Also fascinating to see the first-ever YTP, some 20 years before YT was a thing! LOL
Disco Stu digs DiscoVision ooooh yeahhhh! That over dramatic DiscoVision bumper after the spirograph scene reminds me of the old NBC peacock color TV promos from the early 60's And jeeez! That spirograph scene was long! Also, the at the time high tech DiscoVision was useless showing good pictures when they were taken by cheap film and cameras. It looked like the NFL picked up footage from the editing room floor there to recycle. And 19:35 that bastard was tearing down the suburban/residential street on his POS Ford LTD II 22:02 come on! That was totally intentional! Jeep/Eagle wanted to ride on the coat tails of one of the ultimate 80's icons, Max Headroom. And dang! That made me LOL!
7:28 Like you said, some DiscoVision titles do allow you to view the full bumper. For example, my copy of Richard Pryor's Which Way is Up does allow me to rewind and to see the full bumper, which I've uploaded onto my channel. Unfortunately, my copy also has a lot of rot, a little bit better in terms of sound than your NFL disc (at least IMO), but much worse in picture (there's a moving line that spans the full frame on the upper half of the picture, kinda like on a worn VHS tape. Also, the colors are just bad). It's unfortunate, as like you said, it is a very nice bumper, especially for the late 1970s. Maybe I might get lucky and find a disc in better shape that'll also allow me to view the full bumper. At least the spirograph is usually fully playable when it appears at the end of the disc, which I can view on all of my discs that use it (some of them, namely the later ones made at the end of the label's life, use the MCA Videodisc side bumpers instead).
Had one of these discovision's (Magnavox player) back in 1979. Got it at a Rich's in Atlanta. Had it a a month or two and returned it as it would not work properly. 1979 was the height of the "disco" fad.
I have to admit one thing to Benny Boy as a motoring enthusiast; I wasn't aware Eagle was a former AMC division and was subsequently bought by Chrysler...
Eagle was actually spun off from former AMC and Renault cars when the acquisition happened at first, then they created their own cars, or at least siblings of the other divisions' models.
I saw the Jeep/Eagle disc on one of your later "decimal" episodes. I was wondering what went wrong in the mean time...then you showed us the glitch and I'm like, "I knew it was too good to be true."
It's amazing that people went out of their way to make such crap, and here we have an old LD doing a bang up job churning out a hit about an A/C in some crummy car.
That's an idea. I am going to get a rock band together called. TO JUICE? And the name of the first album. THE ANGLES OF ALIGNMENT. I think it could work.
If you put your player in service mode then those dead sides with the error messages will play. You can also scan back to the very beginning on any disc, but be careful doing that as I ruined one player being too careless- it was reading the label then could never refocus properly. A good way to see the beginning is hit still-step and then lightly tap reverse scan until it goes back far enough. Hit Audio Monitor to get rid of the onscreen display that comes on. It will also read past the ending code to the very edge of the disc, every disc has at least black video out to there and some DiscoVision discs have surprises like color bars and the next side starting up.
Thus far, when I put the player into test mode, it causes all the stuff that keeps the audio and video stable in sync completely out of whack, so it's more like watching extra-bad scrambled cable TV.
DiscoVision was the format's first name. In 1980 the format was sold to Pioneer, who used LaserVision and LaserDisc. Some Image Entertainment and European releases used CD Video, which was misleading as the video portion of the disc was analog.
After this video was a link to a creepypasta about a Discovision B side which had an actual Russian snuff movie in which a guy murders a woman brutally and then chops her up with his bandsaw. Anyone else watch this Creepypasta?
So, did you manage to find out who composed that awesome music from the Jeep/Eagle training disc? Regarding the music from the Ford training disc, I think whoever was entrusted to come up with a tune was under express instructions to find a compromise between Vangelis's Pulstar and Francis Monkman's Achievements Of Man.
Highly doubtful there is enough interest in trying to revive Laserdisc as a niche format anytime soon, would be neat if someone out there was crazy enough to do it. It's a shame I only ever encountered these things either in a classroom setting or happened upon someone who owned LD player and some discs. There's something charming about the format that's hard to put my finger on.
Could you please upload rips of the VideoTec and Ford Motors video to ArchiveAnnex? My channel is mostly these kinds of things and I'd love to see them preserved.
Did you mixed-up laser for label at the beginning of the Jeep disc excerpt? BTW, you gotta upload the best of that Max Headroom lost episode to the annex. P.S. what a shame that you couldn't get a good quality capture of the DiscoVision logo, it's indeed nice and at the same time kinda scary. I love it. P.P.S: I hope you aren't still mad over my opinions on the thrifting videos and that I'm not on your mute list.
You should start a second channel where you just dump this content in its entirety. Especially if you can find an industrial player. Some of us love this stuff for some reason.