Pioneer LaserDisc - What It Is with Patrick O'Neal

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This is the video of the "LaserDisc - What It Is" product demonstration featuring Patrick O'Neal.
Please note that some programming samples have been edited out due to copyright.
Technical aspects:
The video has been taken from the original LaserDisc, played on a Pioneer LD-660 LaserDisc Player. Video output was CVBS (composite). This video was captured using a Dell video capture device on a Dell Dimension 4600 running Windows XP. MediaPortal was the software used to perform the video capture. A conversion utility was employed to remux the DVR-MS file into a proper MPEG2 file. The MPEG2 file is then transferred to my MacBook Pro where, with the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 playback component and MPEG Streamclip, the MPEG2 file is deinterlaced, scaled from 720x480 to 640x480, and transcoded into an MEPG4 H.264 file.
This video made with Windows/made on a Mac.

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@stephenspence295 5 лет назад

Mr. O' Neal had a very distinctive voice to my ear, similar to Jason Robards. Quite a classy actor as I recall from the Films /TV Movies that I have seen him in .

@Angie2343 5 лет назад

He passed away in 1994.

@kenherrera2819 4 года назад

I saw this demo in a store in San Antonio back in the early 80's...when I heard Rita Coolidge singing....and the, at the time, unbelievable sound...I bought one! The same one being demonstrated here. I still have it packed away somewhere in my basement along with several movies. My favorite is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club with Peter Frampton as Billy Shears. The music on that one is amazing!

@ericentsminger9594 2 года назад

Listening to Rita Coolidge's song and watching her sing was a major contributor to selling me on this format back then.

@ericentsminger9594 2 года назад

That and listening to Patrick O'Neill's account of the history of sound & picture reproductions.

@exiles_dot_tv 7 лет назад

"Get me a whiskey Johnny, I'm gonna knock out this goddamn laserdisc commercial in one take."

@shyamdevadas6099 3 года назад

In 1989 when I went to work for a cutting edge AV house in Washington, this was the highest level source we had and we used this exact disc to demo the most advanced projectors and displays we used. It's great to see someone has posted it. Really, when you consider that this is standard definition, old fashioned interlaced video, and uses lousy 3.58 mHz heterodyne color this image is pretty impressive. Rock solid, no tearing, no drop outs. Despite the old 15.75 kHz/60Hz (essentially 640x480) signal, its held up really well.

@creepmike77 7 лет назад

I love Patrice O'Neal.

@Angie2343 6 лет назад

Me too.

@sbrownie Год назад

Patrick this actor, or Patrice the comedian?😂

@creepmike77 Год назад

@@sbrownie The comic 🤣

@ericentsminger9594 2 года назад

When I saw this demonstration video, back in early 1981, I was sold on it instantly. I'm wondering if this demonstration is available on DVD, to show this First Generation laser-video format as a Relic; it should definitely be honored as a relic.

@theonemesis5217 8 лет назад

Jesus! Look at what kind of an advanced technology, these guys had back then, while, we, here in Greece, were "flying in the fogs" on those days! Even the simplest of VHS devices were extremely expensive in our country at that time, and they were literally a luxury for few, while we had to wait for mid 1990's to receive our first compact disks here (even though we did received commercial papers for CDs in a school excursion we had, at Athen's Olympic stadium at late '80s)!

@quattro4468 5 лет назад

THEO NEMESIS Pay debts.

@GambleRogersYesJustinBieberNo 5 лет назад

This is pure gold right here! Unlike DVDS

@JCC87 13 лет назад

I'm 24 years old and up until about 6 moths ago I had no idea LD even existed. It must have been very poorly marketed. I asked my parents and they had no idea either. It's clearly so much better than VHS, I can't understand why it never fully took off.

@colliric 8 лет назад

Jordan Coles It wasn't poorly marketed, it was just that VHS was far more convenient and the video players were cheaper. Laserdisks were as big as an LP record and movies often came on multiple disks. VHS was just "pop it in and go" more convenient.

@gary64au 6 лет назад

I remember Laser Discs mainly were used in corporate world for training and business related purposes. They never gained mainstream acceptance due to several reasons: VHS and Beta video tapes were cheap and convenient plus with many video shops such as Blockbuster Video it was cheap for masses to rent video titles. LD discs were large, heavy and cumbersome to handle and expensive with LD players expensive too. Sometimes longer movies had to span two discs. There were for a short time used by those with money who liked to be on the leading edge of technology who wanted benefits of clearer video, separate audio / channel benefits. For music, CD's became mainstream only a few years after after LaserDiscs and quickly became the norm.

@quattro4468 5 лет назад

Jordan Coles It did well in Asia. Japan and south east asia preferred laserdiscs over vhs at video rental stores. Also the cover art was amazing.

@ducklandwikeno 13 лет назад

This is a old video from pioneer for laserdisc. I never knew that laserdisc was around untill 1993 when I seen one at my cousins house .Dvd is ok , blu-ray great . But I favor laserdisc the best . The year 2000 was the last time that hollywood made copies for us to view new material . Dvd came around and that was the end of it .

@kxmode 8 лет назад

I'm sold! Where can I buy one?

@quattro4468 5 лет назад

kxmode I just did and am under 30.

@allanfisch 8 лет назад

This was a big deal in the day. I used to stand in the video and department stores and watch this demo. the players were like a grand or so, so we didn't have one u until they came out with a cheaper version that I got in 1984.

@Clay3613 13 лет назад

I love this stuff!

@bencool5823 2 месяца назад

Why can't there make videos like this today to clearly explained how the technology works and have us relate to it 📀

@germanboy5392 4 года назад

The future is NOW

@thesemenincident 12 лет назад

IT'S LINDA RONSTADT, WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE LINDA RONSTADT. IT'S A ROD STEWART CONCERT WITHOUT BATTLING THE CROWDS. Oh boy.

@WebVManReturns 8 лет назад

That kid in Deliverance looks like the kid in The Middle.

@Chub4ChubsRule 12 лет назад

Hey, does anybody know if that chinese cooking show was produced for disc?

@MrAccordionPimp 11 лет назад

it was that was Yan Can Cook

@Kit_Bear 5 лет назад

"If Yan can cook, so can Yu!"

@punknerd9747 5 лет назад

Why the hell are they are touching the disc when it scratches the tv

@dvdmike007 13 лет назад

I would never touch my LD's like that lol

@WebVManReturns 8 лет назад

In 2015, what I want to see is situational comedies and I have to use Netflix to watch Fuller House.

@Kit_Bear 5 лет назад

That is so sad.

@WebVManReturns 12 лет назад

I wish T.V. was still land of the situational comedy and not land of reality t.v. trash.

@supermasterPIK 10 лет назад

Did LD have a n anti piracy system, such as Macrovision¡? I mean -> pirating LD into VHS.

@Watcher3223 10 лет назад

None; LD never used Macrovision or any other known copyguard system. Specifically for Macrovision, the Macrovision jammer would have interfered with player control codes as well as timecode in the video signal vertical blanking.

@robertszvetics210 9 лет назад

supermasterPIK NO IT DIDNT

@thepirategamerboy12 11 лет назад

I said that it was bull, because he was touching the disc on the parts you should never touch. Also, don't worry, I always handle my LD's like a record.