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To: weegee
Laserdisc is analog video (as is VHS, but LD has higher resolution than VHS).

Wrong, laserdiscs are based off of the same technology as CDs and later DVDs. A LD player reads the 1s and 0s off the disc with a laser, while VHS is read off with a magnetic based sensor. So LDs are digital.

14 posted on 12/21/2003 7:10:15 AM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Here is one explanation for you. For a more elaborate answer, you can go to the experts at alt.video.laserdisc on Usenet who have been chatting there about the format for almost 20 years.

IS A VIDEODISC SIGNAL DIGITAL?

No. The final output of a laservision videodisc is an analog NTSC standard television signal (at least in North America...other television standards, such as PAL and SECAM exist throughout the world). The SLICE OF LIFE and SLICE OF BRAIN videodiscs use the NTSC standard and thus are viewable through regular television sets. Each frame of a CAV formatted videodisc is like a still-frame from a video. These frames are not stored as individual files, such as a jpeg, gif, bmp, or pict file formats common in the computer world. They can only be recalled for playback by their individual videodisc frame numbers.

Although the content of a videodisc is encoded in pits and landings and read by a laser, in the final analysis, the laservision videodisc is like a glorified, high quality, LP record, except it plays video in addition to sounds.


15 posted on 01/02/2004 11:02:06 AM PST by weegee
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